No result yet in PSA elections

According to a PSA source, preliminary results are that Baptiste-Primus is in the lead, as is her second in command, Stephen Thomas, both from the Reformers’ team.

Theirs were the only two positions being challenged in national elections held on Friday.

Baptiste-Primus was opposed by Patrick Rousseau, a senior officer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Marine Resources while Thomas’ challenger for the first vice-president position was Gerard Giuseppi, a draughtsman of the Lands and Surveys Department.

Thirteen other officers were returned unopposed.

Baptiste-Primus, a former general secretary of the PSA is seeking her third consecutive four-year term as president. She was first elected in 1997.

She is the longest serving elected officer of the PSA, having been an active member since 1985.

Prior to that, she was a clerk at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

In her manifesto, she made it clear to members that public servants must be placed on par with their counterparts in the private and State enterprises sectors, as far as salaries and other conditions of work are concerned.

She vowed to continue to protect PSA members and to ensure that they get the benefits, opportunities, facilities and perquisites that they deserve for their hard work, commitment, loyalty and dedication to duty.