As Dr Kei­th Row­ley pre­pares to pass the prime min­is­te­r­i­al ba­ton to En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, who will take on the reins of lead­er­ship start­ing tomor­row, po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents weigh in on his near­ly ten years of gov­ern­ing the coun­try.

De­spite the con­stant po­lit­i­cal pres­sure and crit­i­cism he faced, both Win­ston Dook­er­an, for­mer po­lit­i­cal leader of the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP), and Gary Grif­fith, leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), have ap­plaud­ed Dr Row­ley’s con­tri­bu­tions to the coun­try.

Dook­er­an told Guardian Me­dia that, un­like his pre­de­ces­sors, Dr Row­ley is the first prime min­is­ter who will leave of­fice on his own terms, feel­ing that he has com­plet­ed his job, rather than be­ing vot­ed out. Since the death of Dr Er­ic Williams, every oth­er prime min­is­ter of T&T has stepped down af­ter los­ing an elec­tion.