Rowley calls on PM to apologise

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September 3, 2026

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A disgusting, racist speech.

This was how former prime minister Dr Keith Rowley described Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Independence Day messages.

In a Facebook post yesterday, Rowley accused Persad-Bissessar of fuelling racial and social division in Trinidad and Tobago and called on her to apologise to the nation for what he described as “vile, racist rubbish”.

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