Rad­hi­ca De Sil­va

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

While thank­ing sup­port­ers in the Moru­ga/Table­land con­stituen­cy for their love and sup­port, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­vealed that she and her hus­band, Dr Gre­go­ry Bisses­sar, were in­volved in an ac­ci­dent last week on their way to San­gre Grande.

Ad­dress­ing sup­port­ers at a UNC cam­paign meet­ing at Vickar carpark, Rochard Dou­glas Road, Bar­rack­pore, on Thurs­day night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar shared de­tails of the in­ci­dent.

“We were go­ing to Grande and a car rammed in­to this side of our car, and he got some­thing called whiplash," she re­vealed.

She ex­plained that Dr Bisses­sar did not at­tend the meet­ing be­cause of the in­jury.

“Be­fore I left, he told me, ‘Kam­la, I'm there with love and sup­port, but I don't want to walk be­cause I can't lift (my head) to­tal­ly up­right,’” she re­called.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so thanked the crowd for their con­tin­ued sup­port.

“You know, the gift of friend­ship and the gift of love, these are al­so gifts we all re­mem­ber and cher­ish. Dr Greg is not with me tonight. I know he's miss­ing out, but, well, I didn't tell him I would say this.”

She added, “Greg, get well soon. We love you very much, and thank you for all the sup­port you have giv­en to me through­out the years.”

Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar met Gre­go­ry Bisses­sar as a teenag­er be­fore leav­ing Trinidad to study in Eng­land. He was al­ready liv­ing there when she ar­rived to at­tend Nor­wood Tech­ni­cal Col­lege in Lon­don. The cou­ple mar­ried in 1971, when she was 18 and he was 22.

They lat­er moved to Ja­maica, where they lived for 14 years. Per­sad-Bisses­sar stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies in Mona, earn­ing a Bach­e­lor of Arts in 1974 and a Diplo­ma in Ed­u­ca­tion in 1976.

In 2025, the cou­ple marked 54 years of mar­riage.