Keith Rowley Calls For End of State of Emergency ‘NOW!’ In Blistering Attack On Prime Minister

Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Keith Rowley, has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister the Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, MP, and her administration, accusing the Government of abusing its powers under the State of Emergency (SoE), while demanding the immediate dismissal of the Minister of Homeland Security, Roger Alexander, and the Attorney General, John Jeremie.

In a scathing statement issued via Facebook this afternoon (Tuesday 28th July, 2026), Rowley accused the Government of pursuing what he described as political vendettas instead of acting within the law. His comments come days after the Privy Council ruled in a high-profile legal challenge involving individuals detained during the ongoing State of Emergency.

Read Dr. Rowley’s full statement below:

“Surprise!

Surprise! 

The Prime Minister thought that bigotry and racist remarks were reserved only for her use.

When she called me an Oreo in the service of the 1%, what did she think that was, her birthright?

For the last month, this country has seen her Government in all its nakedness being spiteful, vindictive and incompetent in the extreme. It took an embarrassing collapse at the Privy Council to slow them down even as they pushed back against the reasoning of our Court of Appeal.

Now that the population has been made aware of the recklessness of this administration which is hiding under a State of Emergency in order to abuse the machinery of the State as they try to settle personal and political scores against citizens, one would expect that a Government so exposed and disgraced will humble itself as the people directly responsible are held to account. Instead, we have the absentee Prime Minister trying from home to continue to fool the population about waiting on ‘foreign jurisdictions.’

What is the Prime Minister saying, that she and her Government for one whole month have been on the attack without evidence and could not lay a charge or defend their position of jailing people without charge in our country, that this fiasco is now left to some unnamed foreign jurisdiction?

Is it that a foreign country will intervene to save this Government from the people or is it that this Government is feeding lies and entreaties to outsiders, inviting them to act against our citizens. If the Prime Minister and her Government have evidence of criminal conduct against any citizen then they must act against such person/s decisively within the law. Don’t disgrace yourself in discharge of your duty here and when you get exposed you send out a tweet to talk about ‘foreign jurisdictions.’

The Government must end the State of Emergency NOW!

The Prime Minister must fire the Minister of Homeland Security and the Attorney General if she harbours any hope of restoring any respect from the right-thinking citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. The statement that the US Government is now helping TT in the fight against crime, is downright foolishness. They have been doing so for decades. What is different now is the wholesale prostitution of our nation’s sovereignty by this Government in the hope of getting personal and political favours.

Finally, stop wasting my taxes on lawyers who are laughing at a foolish Government that is enriching them whilst misleading the taxpayers.”

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