2025 be­gan un­der the weight of a State of Emer­gency (SoE), but with­in just three days, that was eclipsed by a po­lit­i­cal bomb­shell. Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced his in­ten­tion to re­sign, be­com­ing the first sit­ting head of gov­ern­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s his­to­ry to do so vol­un­tar­i­ly.

On Jan­u­ary 3, dur­ing his first me­dia con­fer­ence ad­dress­ing the SoE, af­ter fac­ing crit­i­cism for his ab­sence dur­ing its ini­tial an­nounce­ment, Dr Row­ley closed his re­marks dur­ing a brief­ing in To­ba­go with a stun­ning de­c­la­ra­tion.

“Be­fore the end of the le­gal lim­its of this term, I will re­sign this of­fice and go off to my fam­i­ly.”