Po­lit­i­cal ob­servers say it ap­pears Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is try­ing to make cor­rup­tion a hot-but­ton is­sue of the 2025 elec­tion cam­paign.

Re­act­ing to Row­ley’s state­ments at a me­dia con­fer­ence at White­hall yes­ter­day, po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Prof Hamid Ghany said by re­spond­ing to Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bissess­er’s “All them In­di­an is thief” com­ment, Row­ley took her bait. Ghany said while racism is the en­gine of pol­i­tics in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries, Row­ley tried to re­frame the is­sue to be cor­rup­tion.

Dur­ing yes­ter­day’s brief­ing, Row­ley con­demned Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s race links to the court mat­ter in­volv­ing the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (EM­BD) and MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, ar­gu­ing that sys­tems ought to be in place to charge even pub­lic of­fice­hold­ers with crimes if they com­mit them. He dis­tanced his Gov­ern­ment from the case.