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#WatchLive www.youtube.com/live/Fty4rCJl0xU?si=4D_9PFOOQ28OLG8z ๐บThe 57th National Awards Ceremony takes place today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, Republic Day, at Queenโs Hall, Port of Spain.Join us on Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) for a live broadcast, beginning with a special pre-show at 5:30 p.m., followed by the ceremony at 6:00 p.m.๐บโจ
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The 57th National Awards Ceremony takes place today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, Republic Day, at Queenโs Hall, Port of Spain.Join us on Trinidad and Tobago Television (TTT) for a live broadcast, beginning with a special pre-show at 5:30 p.m., followed by the ceremony at 6:00 p.m.๐บโจ
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ ๐จ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐Fellow citizens,Fifty years ago, Trinidad and Tobago took another decisive step in its journey of self-determination. In becoming a Republic, we affirmed our confidence in our ability to order our own affairs, shape our own institutions and assume full responsibility for our common future.The change was constitutional, but its deepest meaning was civic. Our allegiance was no longer owed to a distant monarch. It was owed to the Republic we had created and, ultimately, to one another. Sovereignty had become stewardship.This fiftieth anniversary therefore invites more than celebration. It asks us to consider not only whether we have preserved the institutions of the Republic, but also whether we have upheld its character: whether public power is exercised with restraint; whether disagreement is conducted with dignity; whether every citizen enjoys an equal place; and whether liberty and security are protected together.We should begin by recovering confidence in our own national identity. Our decision to become a Republic was an act of self-belief. It declared that, while we would remain open to the world, we did not need to become an imitation of anyone else. We can learn from other nations without borrowing their anger, their divisions or their habits of contempt. We can engage the world confidently while remaining unmistakably Trinidad and Tobago.The language of our public life matters. A Republic is diminished when disagreement gives way to derision, when labels take the place of argument, or when provocation is mistaken for strength. Courtesy is not weakness, and restraint is not timidity. They are disciplines of democratic leadership, especially in a society as varied and closely woven as ours.Our republican Constitution recognises and protects fundamental rights and freedoms. Those guarantees are not ornaments for tranquil times. They matter most when fear is greatest and the pressure to set them aside is strongest.Crime has caused profound grief and anxiety in homes and communities across our country. The State has an undeniable duty to protect life, maintain public order and ensure that citizens can live without fear. Yet a mature Republic must protect security, liberty and the sanctity of life together. Measures adopted in the public interest must remain necessary, proportionate, accountable and subject to the law. Exceptional powers must remain truly exceptional.We must be careful that fear does not persuade us, gradually and almost imperceptibly, that freedom is an obstacle to safety. Rights surrendered in anxious times are not always easily recovered. The strength of a constitutional democracy is measured not by whether it can exercise power, but by whether it can exercise power effectively without losing sight of the dignity and freedom of the people it exists to serve.The same principle of dignity must govern how we regard one another. Trinidad and Tobago was shaped by its First Peoples and by successive journeys of forced passage, indenture, migration, refuge and choice. From those different histories, cultures and faiths, we have fashioned something rare: a national identity spacious enough to contain us all.That inheritance places a duty upon us. No citizen should be reduced to a label; and no group should be made to feel that its place in the Republic is conditional. Equal citizenship means that the Republic belongs wholly and equally to every one of us - not by permission, not according to ancestry, and not only when it is politically convenient.Our diversity will not preserve itself. It must be protected in the words we choose, the institutions we maintain and the judgments we make about one another. We honour our national character when we speak firmly without cruelty, enforce the law without contempt, disagree without dehumanising, and refuse to turn difference into suspicion.Republican government also requires an active citizenry. Our duty is not exhausted by voting, nor by supporting those with whom we agree. It includes scrutinising power, defending the rights of others as carefully as our own, rejecting language that coarsens our common life, and insisting that public institutions serve the whole nation. The health of the Republic depends as much upon the standards citizens demand as upon the standards leaders observe.After fifty years, the question is no longer whether we are capable of governing ourselves. It is whether we will govern ourselves well: with courage, but without harshness; with vigilance, but without fear; with pride in who we are, but without hostility towards those who are different.The Republic is not merely the constitutional settlement we inherited in 1976. It is the daily choice to live as one people under law; to preserve both order and freedom; and to keep an equal place for every citizen within the national embrace. If we make that choice deliberately and consistently, we will not simply commemorate the promise of the Republic. We will renew it.I wish every citizen of Trinidad and Tobago a peaceful and reflective Republic Day. May God bless our nation.
๐น๐น๐ถ Celebrating 50 in Steel is bringing the lime to The Presidentโs Bandstand!Join us on Sunday, September 27, 2026, for an evening of steelpan, good food, family, friends and plenty of Trini vibes. Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra will fill the night with music from Trinidad and Tobago as we celebrate 50 years as a Republic. ๐ฅโจ๐ Gates open: 4:30 p.m.๐ Vintage Kaiso Dance Party: 5:30 p.m.๐ต Concert: 6:00โ8:00 p.m.๐๏ธ Admission: FREE!The first 300 guests will receive giveaways, with a few surprise gifts in store too! Look out for food and beverage activations, or bring your own cutters and drinks. No glass bottles, please.Chairs will be provided, but feel free to bring a beach chair or spread a blanket on the grass. Secured parking is available in the Queenโs Park Savannah, entrance opposite The Presidentโs House visitor's entrance.Dress code? Proper Patriotic! Come in red, white and blackโand bring something to wave! ๐น๐น๐#Celebrating50InSteel #TTRepublic50 #officeofthepresidenttt