For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has pushed back against claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that her ad­min­is­tra­tion is re­spon­si­ble for record prof­its at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

In a state­ment re­spond­ing to Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ad­dress in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, Row­ley ar­gued the re­port­ed $3.285 bil­lion prof­it for 2025 stems from poli­cies and re­struc­tur­ing car­ried out un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar had told Par­lia­ment the fig­ure rep­re­sents the high­est NGC prof­it in 11 years, say­ing, “What they could not do in ten years we did in ten months,” while cred­it­ing what she de­scribed as a “trans­for­ma­tion­al ap­proach” by her ad­min­is­tra­tion.