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Errol McLeod, the former head of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago, was named Minister of Labour on Friday, 28 May, by newly-elected Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the first woman to ever lead the twin island republic in the Caribbean.

McLeod, also a former ICEM Executive Committee member, will head a Cabinet ministry entitled Labour, Small, and Macro Enterprise Development. He retired as President of OWTU a year ago after 21 years as leader of one of the world’s most militant trade unions.

The newly-founded Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) political party, which counted McLeod as a candidate for elections to Parliament a week ago, is part of a multi-party coalition called the People’s Partnership that elected Persad-Bissessar and won 29 of 41 seats in Parliament on 24 May.

Those elections proved a crushing defeat to former Prime Minister Patrick Manning and his People’s N