PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has announced that general elections will be held here on Aug. 10.
“Rowley”Rowley told Parliament earlier this month that he had advised President Paula Mae Weekes “to dissolve this Parliament at midnight tonight (July 3)…(and) that Nomination Day will be Friday, July 17.
“I wish all my colleagues a safe happy, enjoyable, productive campaign and I look forward to seeing all of them somewhere in Trinidad before the next Parliament,” Rowley told legislators.
In the last general elections, held in 2015, Rowley led the People’s National Movement to a 23-18 victory over the then People’s Partnership administration of Kamla Persad Bissessar.
