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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

PM to Kamla: Leave my outside children alone

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Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley went on the of­fen­sive in San Fer­nan­do on Mon­day night, telling Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that the num­ber of chil­dren he has in­side and out­side of his mar­riage "is none of her god-damned busi­ness."

Row­ley told a Lo­cal­Go­v­ern­ment elec­tions cam­paign meet­ing in Co­coyea Vil­lage: "As long as Sharon, (his wife) is hap­py with how much I have out­side and how much I have in­side, then Row­ley is hap­py with that. At least what I had out­side and what I have in­side, they es­caped and they are alive."

The tit-for-tat on the cam­paign trail got per­son­al when ear­li­er this week, Row­ley de­scribed Per­sad-Bisses­sar as an em­bar­rass­ment when she claimed the wives of some PNM Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter were ben­e­fit­ing from mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar con­tracts.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has threat­ened to sue Per­sad-Bisses­sar over her com­ments.

At a meet­ing in Freeport on Tues­day night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar fired back at Row­ley's crit­i­cism of her, say­ing he was the em­bar­rass­ment.

"I don't think there is any greater em­bar­rass­ment for a per­son who have more chil­dren out­side than in­side," Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­tort­ed in ref­er­ence to Row­ley's two sons from pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship, Garth Al­leyne, whom the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship made pub­lic in March 2015 and the oth­er, Christo­pher Barthol, who the pub­lic be­came aware of, via a fam­i­ly pho­to­graph is­sued by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter af­ter this year's Eman­ci­pa­tion cel­e­bra­tions.

Ac­cus­ing her of rolling out five of the largest record-break­ing bud­gets in the last five years, Row­ley told PNM sup­port­ers that just one year af­ter leav­ing of­fice, she had noth­ing use­ful to say about lo­cal de­vel­op­ment or re­form that was why she was fo­cus­ing on per­son­al is­sues.

Al­so mak­ing his d�but on a PNM plat­form was Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter, Kaz­im Ho­sein, as the PNM in­tro­duced its nine can­di­dates who are seek­ing to be­come coun­cil­lors on the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion.

Row­ley dubbed the for­mer San Fer­nan­do May­or the clean-up man, af­ter Ho­sein told sup­port­ers his first job was as a clean­er at the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy of­fice.

Ho­sein said every morn­ing be­fore he went to school at Na­pari­ma Col­lege, he would walk with his buck­et, mop and (Guardian) news­pa­per to clean the toi­lets, floors and win­dows. As may­or he al­so em­barked on a clean-up cam­paign to rid the city of garbage, derelict ve­hi­cles on the streets as well as aban­doned lots.

"My first job was as a clean­er and last job would be as a clean­er be­cause I in­tend to clean up Trinidad just as I did in San Fer­nan­do," Ho­sein added.


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