Gerald Yetming (葉明 born 4 January 1945) is a

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politician and businessman. Since 2002 he has served as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of St. Joseph in the

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for the

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(UNC). Prior to that he was a Senator from 2000 to 2001, and

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from 2000 to 2001. A founding member of the

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, Yetming served as high commissioner to Canada between 1987 and 1989. Between 1964 and 2000 he worked for the Royal Bank of Canada and later its successor company, the

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, retiring as Group Director – Regional Banking RBTT Financial Holdings Ltd. Following the election of

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as UNC political leader in October 2005, Yetming announced that he no longer supported former UNC politician leader

Basdeo Panday Basdeo Panday (; born 25 May 1933) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian lawyer, politician, trade unionist, economist, actor, and former civil servant who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001. He was the first ...

as Leader of the Opposition and has moved to the Opposition back benches. On 8 March 2006, Yetming officially resigned from the United National Congress party. He remains the MP for the St. Joseph constituency and has said that he will operate as an independent member of Parliament.

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