Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is said to be do­ing well in the US, where he is re­ceiv­ing med­ical treat­ment.

The Prime Min­is­ter stayed in the US for rou­tine med­ical check-ups fol­low­ing the re­cent Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in Los An­ge­les. He has re­mained silent on sev­er­al is­sues plagu­ing his Cab­i­net in his ab­sence.

When asked dur­ing yes­ter­day’s post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing to give an up­date on the Prime Min­is­ter’s well-be­ing, Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, said all was well.

“As far as I am aware, I was in con­tact with the Prime Min­is­ter this morn­ing, he was in good spir­its, he is do­ing well. He will talk when he re­turns as he al­ways does about what he’s un­der­gone et cetera,” Young said.

He said the Prime Min­is­ter told him he was do­ing “ex­treme­ly well” and he will re­turn to T&T “very short­ly.”

When it was sug­gest­ed to Young by a mem­ber of the me­dia that his words could be in­ter­pret­ed in oth­er ways, he clar­i­fied, say­ing, “It is not me to come here and not any­body to come here un­less di­rect­ed by the Prime Min­is­ter to give a re­port on his health, so to as­sure the pop­u­la­tion, as far as I’m aware, the Prime Min­is­ter is do­ing very well.”

Guardian Me­dia asked whether Row­ley had any dis­cus­sions with the Cab­i­net about the cur­rent saga sur­round­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour and his dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion from rep­re­sent­ing this coun­try in a Pi­ar­co Air­port civ­il mat­ter in the US.

“The Prime Min­is­ter is out of the coun­try on his own per­son­al busi­ness, the Prime Min­is­ter hasn’t had any dis­cus­sion with the Cab­i­net, there is noth­ing for the Prime Min­is­ter to dis­cuss with the Cab­i­net un­til he gets back,” Young said.

Asked if the PM had dis­cussed the is­sue with him, Young said he would not re­veal de­tails of his dis­cus­sions with Row­ley.