Gail Alexan­der

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has told UNC Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts that he (Row­ley) can take a "horn" if he gets one but "I ent send­ing no­body to kill any­body."

Dr Row­ley was speak­ing at Tues­day's PNM meet­ing in Bel­mont.

The PM de­liv­ered a wide-rang­ing ad­dress on a host of na­tion­al is­sues.

He al­so slammed the Op­po­si­tion for not sup­port­ing T&T from pan­dem­ic is­sues to agri­cul­ture fol­low­ing non-at­ten­dance at the Agri In­vest­ment Fo­rum where UNC's pres­ence was lim­it­ed to protest.

He said many of them (UNC) were be­fore the courts, spoke about a car is­sue which one UNC mem­ber is fac­ing - but de­fend­ed his team.

Row­ley spoke on Robert's re­cent at­tacks which had so­cial me­dia abuzz re­cent­ly.

Row­ley at first al­lud­ed to a UNC sen­a­tor whose on­ly ac­com­plish­ment was to "find out who horn­ing me" and who was "dis­grac­ing my wife".

He said his fam­i­ly's back was broad and spine stiff but it was painful to see the Op­po­si­tion Leader say­ing to leave her "out of your bac­cha­nal", ac­cus­ing Roberts of prepar­ing videos to dis­grace his wife.

Row­ley then told off Roberts.

Row­ley spoke on crime in­clud­ing not­ing the 66 shells pumped in­to one per­son at Pic­ton Street, New­town in May.

He re­it­er­at­ed ap­peals against com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers pro­tect­ing cul­prits.

He al­so said he'd not­ed the sale of as­sault ri­fles in the pa­pers. He added that af­ter the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion de­cid­ed Gary Grif­fith was the best per­son for the job of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, his re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in giv­ing Grif­fith a chance in the job was the biggest mis­take he'd ever made.

Row­ley al­so spoke about prob­lems in the scrap iron sec­tor in­clud­ing how thieves even stole the gate off the avi­a­tion fu­el bond at Pi­ar­co where a fire could have oc­curred.

Row­ley said he's leav­ing T&T on the af­ter­noon of Sep­tem­ber 2 af­ter Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert presents the Spot­light on the Econ­o­my - the cur­tain rais­er to the Bud­get 2023 to be pre­sent­ed lat­er in Sep­tem­ber.

Row­ley will go to Switzer­land to meet Pro­man, T&T's biggest methanol pro­duc­er.

He'll al­so meet Shell and BP by Sep­tem­ber 10 for ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Days lat­er he heads to Wash­ing­ton to meet US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris.

He chairs an En­er­gy sub-com­mit­tee ap­point­ed when the Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as was held in Ju­ly.

Ad­mit­ting road de­te­ri­o­ra­tion, Row­ley said funds had been pri­ori­tised to­wards pan­dem­ic needs but a com­pa­ny is now be­ing ap­point­ed in the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­istry to pri­ori­tise road re­pairs.

He said the Agri-In­vest­ment fo­rum will be an an­nu­al event and the next will be held for a longer pe­ri­od in South Trinidad like the Jay­land Fair of years ago.

Sig­nif­i­cant prizes will be award­ed to farm­ers for ex­hibits.

Row­ley warned those march­ing on pub­lic ser­vants' is­sues, the biggest risk they face is if Gov­ern­ment can't pay its bills and has to re­sort to lenders. He said the IMF - whose first con­di­tion­al­i­ty is to cut pub­lic ser­vices - would love to get its hands on T&T.