Late yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued a state­ment in which she said that she was "deeply sad­dened at the pass­ing of my for­mer Gov­ern­ment and Par­lia­men­tary col­league of many years, Mr Kelvin Ram­nath." The Prime Min­is­ter de­scribed Ram­nath as an ex­treme­ly "live­ly and forth­right po­lit­i­cal fig­ure," with sig­nif­i­cant his­to­ry dat­ing back to 1976 when he first en­tered the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and even fur­ther as an ad­vo­cate for equal­i­ty and so­cial jus­tice for work­ers.

She laud­ed his ser­vice in gov­ern­ment as Min­is­ter of En­er­gy fol­low­ing the 1986 elec­tion not­ed that even then he was "un­afraid of stand­ing for what he be­lieved in and for what he rep­re­sent­ed." Al­so re­mem­ber­ing Ram­nath was Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er, who said that T&T was much poor­er as a re­sult of his pass­ing.

Warn­er re­called Ram­nath's "pas­sion to en­sure that jus­tice is guar­an­teed for all in Trinidad and To­ba­go," and said he was "dri­ven by the pas­sion of equal­i­ty for all and rep­re­sent­ed the an­tithe­sis of an un­fair so­ci­ety."