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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Rowley to step down as Prime Minister before general election

by

Sampson Nanton
70 days ago
20250103
Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced that he will be step­ping down as Prime Min­is­ter be­fore the end of his term this year and will not be of­fer­ing him­self to rep­re­sent any con­stituen­cy in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Dr Row­ley made the an­nounce­ment at a news con­fer­ence in To­ba­go which he called to ad­dress mat­ters re­lat­ed to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

He has been an ac­tive politi­cian for the last 45 years and had strong­ly sug­gest­ed dur­ing the coun­try's Bud­get de­bate in Par­lia­ment in Oc­to­ber that he would not be re­turn­ing to the Par­lia­ment when the last ses­sion ends.

The Cab­i­net is hold­ing a re­treat in To­ba­go this week­end and Dr Row­ley told re­porters that he would be telling them of his de­ci­sion there.

"I will not be of­fer­ing my­self again to rep­re­sent any­one ei­ther in Trinidad or in To­ba­go. Forty-five years is a long time and I would like at this time to say thank ap­pro­pri­ate­ly along the way to all those who have sup­port­ed my ef­fort," Dr Row­ley said.

He will over­see screen­ing for the To­ba­go West and To­ba­go East can­di­dates on Sat­ur­day be­fore the re­treat on Sun­day and Mon­day.

He al­so thanked the peo­ple of Diego Mar­tin West who have rep­re­sent­ed him from 1991 to now and said he will thank them ap­pro­pri­ate­ly when the time is right.

He then an­nounced his in­ten­tion to re­sign as Prime Min­is­ter.

"Be­fore the end of the le­gal lim­its of this term, I will re­sign this of­fice and go off to my fam­i­ly," he said be­fore bring­ing the news con­fer­ence to an end.

Dr Row­ley has been the coun­try's sev­enth prime min­is­ter, hav­ing first elect­ed in­to of­fice on Sep­tem­ber 09, 2015 and again fol­low­ing the Au­gust 10, 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.

He has led the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) since May 2010 and was Leader of the Op­po­si­tion from 2010 to 2015.


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