The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has strong­ly con­demned the re­cent ap­point­ment of Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter, call­ing it an “as­sault on democ­ra­cy” and an “un­law­ful act of des­per­a­tion.”

Out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced his in­ten­tion to step down as po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment "at the ear­li­est."

Whichev­er way Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo de­cides, Trinidad and To­ba­go will have a new prime min­is­ter to­day to re­place in­cum­bent Dr Kei­th Row­ley. The Pres­i­dent’s de­ci­sion will put to rest a lin­ger­ing con­sti­tu­tion­al ques­tion as to whether MP Stu­art Young can be ap­point­ed Prime Min­is­ter on the ba­sis of be­ing the choice of the MPs of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, which holds the ma­jor­i­ty in the House, al­though he is not the po­lit­i­cal leader of the rul­ing par­ty.

Out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter and po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Dr Kei­th Row­ley has made a call for mem­bers of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress who are dis­sat­is­fied with their par­ty to join the PNM.

In a bold move that could sig­nal a fresh di­rec­tion for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), sources close to the par­ty are hint­ing at a ma­jor Cab­i­net shake-up or re­align­ment of port­fo­lios with the ap­point­ment of Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter.

To­day marks the last day of Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s term in of­fice. To­day, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment will hold a Spe­cial Con­ven­tion and then present its can­di­dates for the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign. At 10 am to­mor­row, Stu­art Young will be sworn in as prime min­is­ter.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has reached out to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to dis­cuss its de­sire to con­test sev­er­al seats in the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

For­mer UNC mem­ber Lar­ry Lal­la is set to at­tend the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment pre­sen­ta­tion of can­di­dates event in Wood­ford Square, Port of Spain to­day.

As Dr Kei­th Row­ley pre­pares to pass the prime min­is­te­r­i­al ba­ton to En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, who will take on the reins of lead­er­ship start­ing tomor­row, po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents weigh in on his near­ly ten years of gov­ern­ing the coun­try.

In T&T’s po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry, there has nev­er been a prime min­is­ter who vol­un­tar­i­ly re­signed from that high of­fice.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­fused to ad­dress claims from Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that their re­la­tion­ship soured af­ter she al­leged­ly or­ches­trat­ed for mem­bers of her then-Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship Cab­i­net and House Speak­er to record in­to the Hansard that he and his fa­ther were rapists.

As Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley of­fi­cial­ly steps down from lead­er­ship af­ter a decade at the helm, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have weighed in on his lega­cy, with one giv­ing him a fail­ing grade.