Former prime ministers Dr Keith Rowley and Stuart Young have slammed public relations officer of the United National Congress (UNC) Dr Kirk Meighoo for a statement that Dr Eric Williams was not the country’s first prime minister.

In a post on his Facebook page, Meighoo stated that the country’s first prime minister was Sir Grantley Adams, who was the inaugural premier of Barbados from 1953 to 1958, then became the first and only prime minister of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962.

Meighoo, in the post on Sunday, when T&T marked 63 years of Independence, said the story of Trinidad and Tobago’s Independence has been “displaced by politically distorted myth-making, which has warped the way we see ourselves, our country, and our region. To achieve true independence, we must free ourselves to see the truth as it really is, and escape the deliberate manipulation to which we have been collectively subjected.”