Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is as­sur­ing state at­tor­neys that the Gov­ern­ment will do all it can to pro­tect them.

Three promi­nent se­nior coun­sels have been ap­point­ed to the tri­bunal which will be over­see­ing com­plaints and oth­er mat­ters re­lat­ed to the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has con­firmed he will re­tire from pol­i­tics, ho­n­our­ing a pledge he made in 2020 not to seek re-elec­tion and mark­ing the end of a 45-year ca­reer in pub­lic ser­vice.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Christo­pher Row­ley yes­ter­day an­nounced his planned re­tire­ment from pol­i­tics in the is­land where he was born—To­ba­go.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s de­ci­sion to an­nounce his re­tire­ment now “is a clear ad­mis­sion of his fail­ure to lead T&T ef­fec­tive­ly,” but Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) leader Gary Grif­fith, who thanked Row­ley for his ser­vice to coun­try, says Row­ley’s move is a po­lit­i­cal­ly ma­ture one.

The an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day that he was bow­ing out of pub­lic life be­fore the end of the par­lia­men­tary ses­sion rais­es more ques­tions than an­swers.

In the out­go­ing Chi­nese cal­en­dar Year of the Drag­on, when crime man­age­ment was again the bane of Gov­ern­ment and a boon for the Op­po­si­tion’s bat­tles, it was al­so a year of oth­er drag­on-sized chal­lenges for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s 45-year po­lit­i­cal ca­reer has failed to leave a last­ing lega­cy in To­ba­go, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine said yes­ter­day as he re­act­ed to the an­nounce­ment of Dr Row­ley’s re­tire­ment from pol­i­tics.

Promi­nent Rasta­far­i­an leader Glen­roy “Bon­go Grease” Halls has strong­ly con­demned the ac­tions of a young man claim­ing to be Rasta­far­i­an, who was seen in vi­ral videos hurl­ing in­flam­ma­to­ry re­marks out­side mosques, church­es, tem­ples, and the Di­vali Na­gar site in re­cent days.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has been or­dered to pay over $500,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get for defama­tion.

Au­thor­i­ties have de­tained ten in­di­vid­u­als for var­i­ous of­fences, with sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ties of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and drugs con­fis­cat­ed dur­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) op­er­a­tions held na­tion­wide.

A mis­chie­vous mon­key has turned the Ridge­wood Gar­dens, Gol­con­da com­mu­ni­ty in­to its per­son­al play­ground, leap­ing and dart­ing on mud piles left be­hind af­ter a pipe-lay­ing project.