Former T&T Prime Minister - Patrick Manning is dead

Patrick Manning, the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago died early Saturday after being diagnosed with blood cancer.

On Friday, his wife, Hazel Manning confirmed that her husband had been suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia and was being prepared to undergo treatment.

A statement posted on his Facebook page, noted that “at 8:15AM today (Saturday) former Prime Minister Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning passed away peacefully at the San Fernando General Hospital after battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Manning,69, served as prime minister on two occasions between 1991-2010 and in 2012, suffered a stroke and received medical attention in the United States. He did not contest the September 7, 2015 general election.