Crime, Migration and a 5-Year Recession Fire Up Trinidad Voters

  • Economy suffered a lost decade amid falling natural gas output
  • Prime Minister Keith Rowley has been in power since 2015

Supporters of Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Keith Rowley.

Photographer: STR/AFP via Getty Images

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Trinidad and Tobago is holding parliamentary elections Monday amid soaring crime, a migration crisis and the longest recession in the Americas after neighboring Venezuela.

Polls indicate that Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) has a narrow lead over its chief rival, the United National Congress (UNC).