For yet an­oth­er Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) event, for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley was a no-show.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ State of the Re­pub­lic ad­dress, which was held at City Hall, Port-of-Spain last night, gar­nered a few hun­dred sup­port­ers and par­ty mem­bers, in­clud­ing sit­ting Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment (MPs) such as Stu­art Young, Op­po­si­tion sen­a­tors Jan­nelle John-Bates and new­ly-elect­ed To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis.

How­ev­er, Dr Row­ley was not in at­ten­dance, al­though he was one of the longest-serv­ing mem­bers of the par­ty and led the par­ty in­to two terms in gov­ern­ment.