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International News: Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley confirms plans to bow out of politics

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Posted: Saturday, January 4, 2025. 8:58 pm CST.

Photo Credit: Caribbean Community (CARICOM)

By Aaron Humes: Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, will not be offering himself for the next General Elections due later this year, and has announced plans to step out of office before the end of this legal term, according to Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT).

At a media conference from the Office of the Prime Minister, Central Administrative Services Tobago (CAST) on Friday, the two-term Prime Minister stated: “Before the end of the legal limits of this term, I will resign this office and go off to my family.”

Dr Rowley pointed to his 45 years in public office, and recalled a promise he made in the last General Elections in 2020: “When I announced the [People’s National Movement (PNM)] victory in Balisier House, I said to this country I will not be doing that again, and I meant it, and I have kept it.”

The PNM is conducting screenings for the Tobago seats this weekend, and the Cabinet will be in a retreat on Sunday and Monday.

Rowley remarked, “One of the things that [the Cabinet] will be told is that 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 you appropriately along the way to all those [who] have supported my effort and have benefitted [from it]. I hope I would have positively impacted this country.”

Dr Rowley said he would also thank the constituents of Diego Martin West, whom he has represented.

The twin-island republic’s next elections are due by October. The PNM is defending a narrow majority it won in 2020 against Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s United National Congress (UNC) and others.

 

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