The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the UNC-led coali­tion on their vic­to­ry in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on Mon­day, the busi­ness cham­ber said the elec­tion re­sult re­flect­ed the pub­lic’s sup­port for the new ad­min­is­tra­tion’s plat­form and praised cit­i­zens for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process.

“We wish Prime Min­is­ter-elect the Ho­n­ourable Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her ad­min­is­tra­tion every suc­cess as they em­bark on this im­por­tant chap­ter of lead­er­ship,” the state­ment read.

AM­CHAM T&T said it stood ready to work with the in­com­ing gov­ern­ment to help dri­ve eco­nom­ic re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion, in­vest­ment, and sus­tain­able growth. The cham­ber iden­ti­fied sev­er­al pri­or­i­ty ar­eas for col­lab­o­ra­tion, in­clud­ing strength­en­ing both tra­di­tion­al and re­new­able en­er­gy in­dus­tries, ex­pand­ing the tech sec­tor and dig­i­tal econ­o­my, and im­ple­ment­ing re­forms to im­prove the ease of do­ing busi­ness.

How­ev­er, it flagged crime as the most ur­gent is­sue fac­ing the new gov­ern­ment.

“The num­ber one pri­or­i­ty of the Gov­ern­ment has to be to re­duce crime — a crit­i­cal el­e­ment in restor­ing in­vestor and pub­lic con­fi­dence and en­sur­ing a safe and pros­per­ous so­ci­ety,” the re­lease stat­ed.

The cham­ber al­so high­light­ed the need for ed­u­ca­tion re­form, warn­ing of a “Caribbean-wide cri­sis” in math­e­mat­ics and Eng­lish that threat­ens the fu­ture of the re­gion’s youth.

Call­ing for a more col­lab­o­ra­tive ap­proach to gov­er­nance post-elec­tion, AM­CHAM T&T stressed the im­por­tance of broad-based co­op­er­a­tion to achieve shared na­tion­al goals.

“We en­cour­age the Gov­ern­ment to adopt a more col­lab­o­ra­tive ap­proach now that the cam­paign is over. The more peo­ple in the boat, row­ing in the same di­rec­tion, the more like­ly we are to get to the in­tend­ed des­ti­na­tion.”

The state­ment end­ed with a re­newed com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing ini­tia­tives that boost in­no­va­tion, eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty and sus­tain­able pros­per­i­ty for all cit­i­zens.