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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

PM revokes Stuart's Communications portfolio

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2200 days ago
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From left, Stuart Young, Foster Cummings and Donna Cox

From left, Stuart Young, Foster Cummings and Donna Cox

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley last night re­voked the ap­point­ment of Stu­art Young as Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter.

For­mer Laven­tille East MP Don­na Cox will take the oath of of­fice on Mon­day and will take over that port­fo­lio. She will be brought in as a sen­a­tor and re­place Fos­ter Cum­mings, whose ap­point­ment was al­so re­voked by the Prime Min­is­ter. Cox was last post­ed as the con­sul gen­er­al in the T&T New York con­sulate.

Young still holds the port­fo­lios of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice Prime Min­is­ter.

In re­sponse to the PM's de­ci­son, Young stat­ed in a Face­book post, " I would like to thank our Prime Min­is­ter, Dr. the Ho­n­ourable Kei­th Row­ley, for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to have served as the Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions in ad­di­tion to my oth­er min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lios. I wel­come the ad­di­tion of Ms Don­na Cox as the new Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and pledge my con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to serve the Coun­try as the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

I have al­ways main­tained that it is a priv­i­lege to serve and I cer­tain­ly will con­tin­ue to give of my best as a ser­vant of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go."

In its front-page ed­i­to­r­i­al ti­tled “The Break­ing Point: An open let­ter to Trinidad and To­ba­go” Guardian Me­dia called on Row­ley to re­duce Young’s min­is­te­r­i­al load so he can fo­cus more on his Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty port­fo­lio.

In a state­ment is­sued at 8.28 pm, Row­ley an­nounced that he had ad­vised Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes to ap­point Cox as Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Min­is­ter. Cox will be sworn in at 10.30 am on Mon­day at the Pres­i­dent’s House.


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