Sto­ries by Akash Sama­roo

The lead­er­ship of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is fac­ing mount­ing crit­i­cism over what some now see as a rift and are de­scrib­ing as a trou­bling lack of re­spect for for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and an ap­par­ent fail­ure to show hu­mil­i­ty to­ward long-stand­ing par­ty stal­warts.

The par­ty, once known for keep­ing its in­ter­nal di­vi­sions firm­ly be­hind closed doors, was thrust in­to pub­lic con­tro­ver­sy this week, af­ter Row­ley claimed he was not in­vit­ed to its 70th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions on Jan­u­ary 26.