Keith Rowley (politician)

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Keith Rowley (2016)

Keith Cristopher Rowley (born October 24, 1949 in Mason Hall ) is a Trinidadian politician and has been Prime Minister of the country since 2015.

Life

Rowley grew up with his grandparents who farmed on Tobago . He attended Bishop's High School in Scarborough , then studied at the Mona and St. Augustine campuses of the University of the West Indies and received a PhD in geology, specializing in geochemistry . As a result, he initially carried out research as a volcanologist at the UWI and later took up a position as managing director of the state-owned National Quarries Company.

As a member of the People's National Movement (PNM) party, which has been the undisputed ruling party since 1961, he ran for an election for the first time in 1981 and ran for the constituency of Tobago-West. After the PNM was voted out in 1986, Rowley became a member of the Senate for the opposition in the Upper House of the Trinidadian bicameral parliament and deputy party chairman of the PNM under Patrick Manning . Rowley has been an uninterrupted member of the Trinidadian House of Representatives for the constituency of Diego Martin West since 1991 , which he won at the general elections in 1991, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2010 and 2015. In 1991 the PNM returned to government and Rowley became Secretary of Agriculture under Manning. After the 2002 elections he became Minister for Planning, Development and Housing under the renewed election winner Manning, and Minister for Economic Affairs after the 2007 elections. After the 2010 House of Representatives election, the defeated Prime Minister Manning resigned from his position as party leader of the PNM; Rowley was named his successor. In the elections for the House of Representatives in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015 , he stood as the top candidate of his party and was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago two days after the PNM won the election. In the 2020 election he ran again as the top candidate of the PNM and narrowly won against the UNC.

Rowley is married to lawyer Sharon Rowley; the couple has two daughters.

Web links

Commons : Keith Rowley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
  • Portrait on the website of the Trinidadian Parliament

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on the PNM website. Retrieved September 11, 2015 .
  2. ^ Portrait on the website of the Trinidadian parliament. Retrieved September 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Rowley, Keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowley, Keith Cristopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mason Hall