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Her Excellency attends CCJ Interfaith Service

Apr 16, 2025

Her Excellency attends CCJ Interfaith Service

Her Excellency Christine Carla Kangaloo O.R.T.T., President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, attended the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Interfaith Service of Reflection and Prayer in Commemoration of its 20th Anniversary at Queen’s Hall on Wednesday 16 April, 2025. Her Excellency was greeted by the President of the CCJ The Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) was established on 14 February 2001 by the Agreement Establishing the Caribbean Court of Justice, which came into force on 23 July 2002. The Court was then inaugurated on 16 April 2005. Throughout its existence to date, the Court has made significant strides in its efforts to ensure that all citizens of CARICOM have access to fair and efficient justice.

Congratulations to the CCJ on its 20th Anniversary.

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The 57th National Awards Ceremony takes place today, Thursday, September 24, 2026, Republic Day, at Queenโ€™s 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.๐Ÿ“บโœจ ...

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๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‡๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ฅ๐š ๐Š๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐จ ๐Ž๐‘๐“๐“, ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐๐š๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐จ๐›๐š๐ ๐จ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐œ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‘๐ž๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”Fellow 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. ...

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๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡น๐ŸŽถ Celebrating 50 in Steel is bringing the lime to The Presidentโ€™s 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. ๐Ÿฅโœจ๐Ÿ•Ÿ Gates open: 4:30 p.m.๐Ÿ’ƒ Vintage Kaiso Dance Party: 5:30 p.m.๐ŸŽต Concert: 6:00โ€“8:00 p.m.๐ŸŽŸ๏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 Queenโ€™s Park Savannah, entrance opposite The Presidentโ€™s House visitor's entrance.Dress code? Proper Patriotic! Come in red, white and blackโ€”and bring something to wave! ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ™Œ#Celebrating50InSteel #TTRepublic50 #officeofthepresidenttt ...

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