Tobago PNM sure PM will make speedy recovery

The People’s National Movement’s (PNM’s) Tobago Council has expressed confidence the Prime Minister will make “a speedy and full recovery.”

Dr Rowley was admitted to West Shore Private Medical Hospital in Cocorite, on Friday evening, after complaining of discomfort.

He was kept overnight for observation and was said to be in good spirits.

The PM visited the United States two years ago for heart tests after plaque was earlier found in one of his arteries.

It is unclear when Rowley will resume work.

In a statement on Saturday, Tobago Council political leader Tracy Davidson-Celestine said the council is praying for the PNM leader.

“We are pleased to have received reports that the Prime Minister is resting comfortably,” she said.

“Dr Rowley is not only our Prime Minister, he is not only our political leader, he is a son of Tobago soil and the people of Tobago are very confident that he will make a speedy and full recovery.”

Davidson-Celestine also said the Tobago Council is grateful for the outpouring of concern, support and love it has received from citizens as well as its partners and allies throughout the region and around the world.

“We have faith that the Prime Minister is receiving the best of care and we look forward to his full recovery.”

In an interview before the statement was released, Tobago Council chairman Stanford Callender told Sunday Newsday he was “a bit shaken” when he got the news of Rowley’s hospitalisation.

“I told to my wife that we should pray for him because I am extremely concerned at this time, especially the times we are in, that we need a prime minister in almost perfect health,” he said. “So I am concerned. I continue to pray for him in my own way because I think he is really a leader for these times. I pray for his wife, children and grand children as they all rally around him to lend support.”

Callender also prayed for the medical professionals who are caring for the prime minister.