In a mo­ment that sur­prised many fa­mil­iar with their his­to­ry, for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine praised each oth­er on Sat­ur­day when they took part in a pan­el dis­cus­sion at Bish­op’s High School in To­ba­go.

The ex­change came dur­ing a light-heart­ed but thought­ful seg­ment of the event when mod­er­a­tor Ira Math­ur asked both men to share some­thing they ad­mired about each oth­er. De­spite their po­lit­i­cal­ly strained past, both took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to speak with re­spect and re­flec­tion.

Row­ley said he ad­mired Au­gus­tine’s en­er­gy and pas­sion for To­ba­go.