As he bid farewell to the hun­dreds of Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment sup­port­ers and mem­bers gath­ered at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, out­go­ing prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley dis­played a soft­er side.

It re­flect­ed one in which he had to sac­ri­fice per­son­al mat­ters for the greater good of the coun­try.

Stand­ing at the podi­um dur­ing a spe­cial con­ven­tion of the PNM, a more sub­dued Row­ley shared, “I can’t un­der­stand some­times when I think about it why peo­ple are sur­prised that I’m walk­ing away from the au­thor­i­ty of the of­fice of prime min­is­ter.