What is Basdeo Panday?
{{Infobox Politician |honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] | image = Basdeo Panday with Mikko Pyhälä (Ambassador of Finland) (cropped).jpg | imagesize = | name = Basdeo Panday | caption = | office =[[List of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago|5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago]] | term_start = November 10, 1995 | term_end = December 23, 2001 | president = [[Noor Hassanali]] <br> [[A. N. R. Robinson]] | predecessor = [[Patrick Manning]] | successor = [[Patrick Manning]] | constituency = Couva North | majority = | office2 = Political Leader <br/> [[United National Congress]] | term_start2 = September 10, 2006 | term_end2 = January 24, 2010 | predecessor2 = [[Winston Dookeran]] | successor2 = [[Kamla Persad-Bissessar]] | term_start3 = April 30, 1989 | term_end3 = October 2, 2005 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = [[Winston Dookeran]] | constituency3 = | majority3 = | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1933|05|25}} | birth_place = [[Princes Town]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2024|1|1|1933|5|25}} | death_place = [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], [[Florida]], [[United States|U.S.]] | party = [[United National Congress]] | relations = | spouse = Oma Panday | children = | residence = | occupation = Lawyer<br>Politician | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Basdeo Panday''' (May 25, 1933 – January 1, 2024) was a [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidadian]] politician. He was the fifth [[Prime Minister]] of [[Trinidad and Tobago]].<ref>{{cite news | last =com | first =ttgapers | title =Jack Warner taking Basdeo Panday to court | publisher =ttgapers.com | date =2009-08-16 | url =http://www.ttgapers.com/News/2009/8/16/jack-warner-taking-basdeo-panday-to-court/ | access-date =2009-08-16 | archive-date =2009-08-19 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090819030318/http://www.ttgapers.com/News/2009/8/16/jack-warner-taking-basdeo-panday-to-court | url-status =dead }}</ref> He served as Prime Minister from 1995 to 2001. Panday died on January 1, 2024 in [[Jacksonville,