Stuart Young
Stuart Young | |
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Young in 2017 | |
| 8th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago | |
| In office 17 March 2025 – 1 May 2025 | |
| President | Christine Kangaloo |
| Preceded by | Keith Rowley |
| Succeeded by | Kamla Persad-Bissessar |
| Member of Parliament for Port-of-Spain North/St. Ann's West | |
| Assumed office 7 September 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Patricia McIntosh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 February 1975 |
| Party | People's National Movement |
| Alma mater | |
Stuart Richard Young (born 9 February 1975) is a Trinidadian attorney and politician and was the eighth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago between 17 March and 28 April 2025. As member of the People's National Movement (PNM), he has been a member of parliament (MP) in the House of Representatives for Port-of-Spain North/St. Ann's West since 2015.
He was the minister of energy and energy industries and minister in the office of the prime minister. On 6 January 2025, it was announced Young would be the presumptive nominee to succeed as prime minister in August 2025 when Keith Rowley intends to resign from representational politics. Young has previously held the posts of minister of national security, minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs and minister of communications. Young was appointed a senior counsel on 20 June 2024.
Young lead the PNM into the 2025 Trinidad and Tobago general election which was lost to Kamla Persad-Bissessar of the United National Congress (UNC) thus causing Young to be the shortest serving Prime Minister in the history of Trinidad and Tobago. In the aftermath of the election, Young resigned as PNM party chairman on April 30.