Gail Alexan­der

Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley will be play­ing mas on Car­ni­val Mon­day and Tues­day - and he’ll be un­der­go­ing an an­nu­al med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion in April.

He’ll al­so be hav­ing talks with BP in Lon­don next month while on his way to vis­it Ghana.

Row­ley spoke about his sched­ule dur­ing yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing where he de­tailed out­comes of the Cari­com In­ter­s­es­sion­al meet­ing which he re­cent­ly at­tend­ed in Bar­ba­dos. The meet­ing end­ed Wednes­day.

On whether he’s play­ing mas, Row­ley said he’d re­cent­ly had a hec­tic week and it was very stress­ful with meet­ings all day and night. He added with a grin, “I think I should play mas...”

Row­ley said once the weath­er’s good, he thinks he’ll be play­ing mas Mon­day af­ter­noon with a band he’s ap­peared with be­fore.

On Tues­day he said he’ll play mas with an­oth­er he nor­mal­ly plays with, “All Stars as usu­al...pro­vid­ing if they lose Panora­ma to In­vaders, they mightn’t come out.... so I’m hedg­ing my bets,” he said.

Ahead, Row­ley leaves for Ghana on March 1 via Lon­don. He’s ac­cept­ed Ghana’s in­vi­ta­tion to at­tend their Na­tion­al Day (In­de­pen­dence ) cel­e­bra­tions on March 6.

He said he’ll lead a T&T del­e­ga­tion to the event. Row­ley added T&T has found sig­nif­i­cant en­try in­to Ghana with the po­ten­tial for trade and busi­ness ties in­clud­ing en­er­gy.

But pri­or to ar­riv­ing in Ghana, he will stop in Lon­don on March 3 to have a high-lev­el meet­ing with BP.

“This is to ad­vance some sig­nif­i­cant dis­cus­sions we start­ed and have open dis­cus­sions with BP on mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est,” he said.

Row­ley will be ac­com­pa­nied on the BP leg by Min­is­ters Franklin Khan (En­er­gy) and Stu­art Young (Min­is­ter in the PM’s Of­fice).

On March 4, Row­ley moves on to Ghana where he’ll stay over March 5-7. The T&T team’s ex­pect­ed to re­turn March 8.

At the end of April, Row­ley said he in­tends to get a med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion. He not­ed he’d had a health check in March 2019 and at that time said he ‘d have an­oth­er a year lat­er.

In March 2019, Row­ley went to Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia for med­ical tests re­lat­ed to a coro­nary is­sue. This con­cerned build-up of plaque in one artery dis­cov­ered in 2016. How­ev­er, there was no need for surgery and he was deemed in good shape.

Yes­ter­day Row­ley didn’t say if the up­com­ing check-up is in Cal­i­for­nia again. But he said he’s hop­ing it will be “as pos­i­tive as it was last time.”