SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (CMC) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley Friday announced that he would be resigning from office “before the end of the legal limits of this term” that is due to end by August this year.
Speaking at a news conference, Rowley, 75, told reporters that he had always indicated his intention to step down from politics after 45 years in public life.
“I am here with my colleagues this weekend and one of the things that they 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.
“I would like at this time to say thank you, appropriately along the way to all those who have supported my efforts and to have benefitted from I hope I have positively impacted this country somewhere, sometime,” he added.
Rowley said while he would continue to be the political leader of the ruling People’s National Movement as it prepares for the general elections due in August, he would not be putting himself up as a candidate for the Diego Martin West seat, which he has represented in Parliament since 1991.
“I will thank them appropriately and ensure they are not left adrift, but I will not be offering myself as I just said, and I will say something else before the end of the legal limits of this term I will resign this office and go off to my family,” Rowley said, ending the news conference.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work. You surround yourself with competent people who are able to step up and fill your position if and when you leave. The old fart we have here in Vincy thinks he’s irreplaceable and hasn’t groomed anyone to replace him. Instead, he surrounded himself with a bunch of people with brains the size of a pea.This old fart has no dignity ,no honor nor respect for Vincentians, so, he’s gonna be in power for another 20 yrs at the very least.
Let the decrepit old man who’s running SVG and trying tooth and nail to cling to power take note.