Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s lead­er­ship style has long been a defin­ing fea­ture of his tenure as prime min­is­ter and as he pre­pares to ex­it the po­lit­i­cal stage, re­flec­tions on his lega­cy are as var­ied as the peo­ple he served.

Mem­bers of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) praise Dr Row­ley’s ded­i­ca­tion to na­tion­al progress while crit­ics point to his con­fronta­tion­al ap­proach and the con­tro­ver­sies that arose dur­ing his time in of­fice.

A cor­ner­stone of Dr Row­ley’s tenure as Prime Min­is­ter has been his fiery, un­apolo­getic de­bat­ing style, a trait high­light­ed by for­mer PNM Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford.