Lawrence Hislop

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Lawrence Hislop is a Trinidad and Tobago politician from the People's National Movement.{{Cite web |title=Laurence Hislop – Parliament |url=https://www.ttparliament.org/members/member/laurence-hislop/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241103164658/https://www.ttparliament.org/members/member/laurence-hislop/ |archive-date=2024-11-03 |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=www.ttparliament.org |language=en-US}}

Biography

Hislop hails from Tobago and was born into a Seventh-Day Adventist family.{{Cite web |last=Connelly |first=Corey |date=2022-04-03 |title=Tobago senator ready for new challenges |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/03/tobago-senator-ready-for-new-challenges/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |newspaper=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |language=en-US}} Hislop was a candidate in the December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election in Mason Hall/Moriah.{{Cite web |last=Connelly |first=Corey |date=2022-03-16 |title=Hislop ready to serve country as a senator |url=https://newsday.co.tt/2022/03/16/hislop-ready-to-serve-country-as-a-senator/ |access-date=2025-04-26 |newspaper=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday |language=en-US}}

In 2022, he was appointed to the Senate where he has since sat as a government senator.{{Cite web |date=24 October 2023 |title=Hislop not seeing development in Tobago despite budget allocations |url=https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/hislop-not-seeing-development-in-tobago-despite-budget-allocations-6.2.1833841.12ea9ed2ae |website=Trinidad and Tobago Parliament}}

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