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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Rowley fires back: "Unpatriotic cabal!"

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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addresses the gathering during the commissioning ceremony for the Lisa Morris Julian Boulevard in Arima on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addresses the gathering during the commissioning ceremony for the Lisa Morris Julian Boulevard in Arima on Wednesday.

Abraham Diaz

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley took to his Face­book page in the ear­ly hours of Thurs­day morn­ing to re­spond to Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, crit­i­cis­ing her re­cent com­ments on Venezuela and his de­ci­sion to re­tire.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar sug­gest­ed Row­ley’s de­ci­sion to step down was not about re­tire­ment but about flee­ing from the con­se­quences of his ac­tions, link­ing it to Don­ald Trump’s elec­tion. She ac­cused him of sup­port­ing a "dic­ta­to­r­i­al and cor­rupt" Maduro regime with ties to drug traf­fick­ing. She al­so crit­i­cised his lead­er­ship, call­ing it a fail­ure in crime, health­care, in­fra­struc­ture, and the econ­o­my, while ac­cus­ing him of de­stroy­ing the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem, agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, and democ­ra­cy with­in his par­ty. She in­sist­ed that the pri­or­i­ty now is to call a gen­er­al elec­tion and move past Row­ley’s “wretched” lead­er­ship to re­build Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fu­ture.

Row­ley dis­missed her claims and ac­cused her and MP Roodal Mooni­lal of pre­vi­ous­ly urg­ing the US gov­ern­ment to sanc­tion him and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young while they worked to se­cure a gas sup­ply deal with Venezuela and an OFAC li­cence from the US. "Well, this is an even more un­pa­tri­ot­ic act!" he said.

He de­scribed Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s re­marks as "an ill-ad­vised, di­rect at­tack on the Maduro Gov­ern­ment," ar­gu­ing that she in­tend­ed to pro­voke Venezuela in­to aban­don­ing favourable agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go. He warned that her call for US ac­tion against Venezuela could threat­en the coun­try’s fu­ture gas sup­ply. "How un­pa­tri­ot­ic can this ca­bal get!" he asked.

Mock­ing her use of the term “klep­to­crat­ic,” he said, "The on­ly good thing about this is that we now know that she knows the word." He added, "It means steal­ing from the pub­lic purse. Imag­ine UNC per­sons us­ing that word against Maduro, or any­body for that mat­ter."

Row­ley ac­cused Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her par­ty of try­ing to harm the coun­try. "What will this klep­to­crat­ic ca­bal not do in an ef­fort to harm the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go?" he asked.


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