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De­spite a re­cent call by for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley for Trinidad and To­ba­go to “com­plete its in­de­pen­dence” by sev­er­ing ties with the Unit­ed King­dom’s Privy Coun­cil, there re­mains strong op­po­si­tion on the ground to such a move.

This has been re­vealed in the re­sults of a new pub­lic opin­ion poll car­ried out just over a week ago in both Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Asked whether T&T should abol­ish ap­peals to the Privy Coun­cil, most re­spon­dents in Trinidad (45 per cent) said “No,” com­pared to 25 per cent who said “Yes” to end­ing the cur­rent re­la­tion­ship with the Lon­don law lords.