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Security & Strategic Review - October 2024
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Making the case for constitutional reform
At the beginning of August, Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley, leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM) government, received the report of the National Advisory Committee on Constitutional Reform, and a couple of weeks later the report was released to the public. It was immediately dismissed by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, leader of the opposition United National Congress (UNC), as “a con job to be used as a PNM manifesto for the upcoming general election”, and there are elements of the report that would not find favour even with the prime minister. It would seem, therefore, that the effort to reform Trinidad & Tobago’s 1976 constitution still has a long way to go. Nevertheless, the process to date has thrown some interesting light onto contemporary Trinidad and the challenges it faces.
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