‘Yuk!’ Rowley fumes as Kamla, Farley claim airport credit

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of try­ing to claim cred­it for the new East Ter­mi­nal at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, de­spite what he de­scribed as their pre­vi­ous at­tempts to ob­struct the project.

In a Face­book post re­spond­ing to Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s pro­mo­tion of the ter­mi­nal’s open­ing, Row­ley in­sist­ed that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) was re­spon­si­ble for build­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

“That is why the PNM BUILT IT and you and Far­ley tried to ob­struct it,” he wrote.

“Now you try­ing to tief cred­it for it!!!!! YUK”

His com­ments ac­com­pa­nied a screen­shot of a post from Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s X ac­count cel­e­brat­ing the open­ing un­der the de­c­la­ra­tion: “A NEW ERA FOR TO­BA­GO!”

The Prime Min­is­ter’s post de­scribed the ter­mi­nal as a ma­jor mile­stone, cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for tourism, in­vest­ment and eco­nom­ic growth.

Row­ley par­tic­i­pat­ed in a com­mis­sion­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the US$129 mil­lion ter­mi­nal on March 15, 2025, short­ly be­fore re­sign­ing as prime min­is­ter that month.