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LONDON MISSION Volume 72 - May 2018 Contents LONDON MISSION / May 2018 / Issue 72 6 LONDON MISSION VOLUME 72 - MAY 2018 CONTENTS LONDON MISSION / MAY 2018 / ISSUE 72 6 1/ Introducing Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago 1/ Inaugural Address by the 6th President of Trinidad and Tobago at the Queen’s Park Savannah 4/ The Passing of Former President Professor George Maxwell Richards, TC, CMT, PhD 5/ Message from the Honourable Dr Keith Rowley, Prime Minister on the Occasion of Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day 2018 THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CORNER 5/ Message from His Excellency Orville London, High Commissioner on the Occasion Of Indian Arrival Day 2018 8 8/ CHOGM 2018 Deliverables VIEWS FROMTHE MISSION 10/ Enthusiastic Diaspora Response to Prime Minister 15/ Quarterly Meetings with the Diaspora 16/ ‘Emotions in colour’ Art Exhibition at the High Commission 19/ Hazel Brown Honoured at Commonwealth People’s Forum in CHOGM 20/ Relief for Windrush Generation THE DIASPORA SPEAKS 24/ The Mission Congratulates MBE Honoree Leslie Palmer 25/ Dove in the Cocoa Sector 32 28/ South Trinidad has indeed provided the Pan World with a Living Legend … 30/ A Tribute to one of our greatest musical icons - Gerald Forsyth OBE (1932 – 2017) TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO NEWS 35/ Roxborough Police Youth Club Parent Group visits London Mission 37/ InvesTT Launches Diaspora Engagement Project 39/ A Taste of Home - Mouthwatering Recipes from Trinidad and Tobago 40/ Upcoming Events A Publication of: The High Commission for CONTRIBUTING WRITERS the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, London H.E. Orville London STAY CONNECTED 42 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NT Mrs. Beverley Awonaya Mr. Lawson C. Lovell TEL: 020 7245 9351 Facebook TTHC London FAX: 020 7823 1065 PROOFING: Twitter EMAIL: [email protected] Mrs Dawn Elie-Forde @TTHC_London PRINTING CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Complete the National’s Public, Affairs, Culture and Tourism Mr. Lawson C. Lovell Registration Form online or Department of The High Commission for the Mrs. Beverley Awonaya in person at the T&T High Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Commission. LAYOUT AND DESIGN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mr. Lawson C. Lovell Website H.E. Orville London foreign.gov.tt/hclondon MESSAGE / THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT INTRODUCING HER excellency Paula-MAE WEEKES PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF Trinidad AND Tobago orn on December 23, 1958 in the Commonwealth Judicial Education Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Justice Institute in 2000. Since that time, she Weekes attended the Tranquillity has been deeply involved in training for GovernmentB Primary School and Bishop various levels of judicial officer and has Anstey High School, a premier secondary conceptualised, designed and facilitated a educational institution established in wide range of training programmes both 1921 by Bishop Arthur Henry Anstey for locally and regionally. the education of Anglican girls. Immediately after retirement from the In 1977 she entered The University of Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago Justice the West Indies, Faculty of Law, Cave Weekes enjoyed a new incarnation as Hill, Barbados graduating in 1980 with Executive Director of PMW Criminal a Bachelor of Laws (Hons). She obtained Justice Consultancy and Training a small her Legal Education Certificate from the outfit providing services geared towards Hugh Wooding Law School in 1982 and the development of the criminal justice was admitted to the practice of law in sector. This venture is now in abeyance. Trinidad and Tobago later that year. Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, President of Justice Weekes was Course Director for Justice Weekes joined the Office of the the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Ethics Rights and Obligations of the Director of Public Prosecutions as State Legal Profession at the Hugh Wooding Counsel I in November 1982. After of Appeal in January 2005 and presided Law School (2010-2016) and created eleven years representing the State in the in that court for eleven years. She retired the current course manual, supervised Magistrates’, High and Appeal Courts from the Judiciary of the Republic of associate tutors, pioneered innovative she resigned as Senior State Counsel in Trinidad and Tobago on August 31, 2016, pedagogical techniques and served as First 1993 and entered private practice. She after two decades of service. Examiner during that period. established her own Chambers after a brief period in the Chambers of a distinguished Upon her retirement Justice Weekes was From 1997 until her election as President Senior Counsel. invited to join the Appellate Bench of of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago the Judiciary of The Turks and Caicos Justice Weekes was the Chancellor of In 1996 Justice Weekes was invited to Islands. On her assumption in September the Anglican Church in the Diocese of apply for the office of Puisne Judge in 2016 she became the first woman to serve Trinidad and Tobago. She was a member the Judiciary of the Republic of Trinidad in that capacity. Her last sitting was in of the Diocesan Council and provided and Tobago and was so appointed on November/December 2017 and she legal services on ecclesiastical and other September 1, 1996. She presided in resigned in January 2018 ahead of her matters to three successive Bishops of the the trial courts for nine years, almost nomination for the Presidency. Diocese. exclusively in the criminal jurisdiction. Justice Weekes is a qualified judicial Justice Weekes is an avid cultivator of Justice Weekes was elevated to the Court educator, having been made a Fellow of orchids and enjoys exploring foreign lands. inaugural ADDRESS by THE 6TH PRESIDENT OF trinidad AND tobago at THE QUEEN’S parK SAVANNAH The following is an excerpt from Fellow citizens from the least job description. With that and available material I the Inaugural address by Her among you to the greatest and in mind I first looked at analysed the leadership and Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes other distinguished guests. the Constitution and while decision-making styles of my President of the Republic of it outlined certain duties predecessors in office. This Trinidad and Tobago at the Well before the date of and functions of president, unscientific research led me Queen’s Park Savannah, Port Of assumption of any new the office holder’s role was to the conclusion that it falls Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on position the candidate had not defined. Then aided to each President to define March 19, 2018: better be clear about the by memory, anecdote within prescribed limits his Volume 72 |LONDON MISSION 1 MESSAGE / THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Above: The parade is inspected by Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes. Below: Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes delivers her inaugural address. Photos: otp.tt or in this case her own role. limits, nor made wonderful because I consider that for among other problems are so After much deliberation friends. I would not have the period of my tenure, our thick on the ground that all I identified my role as undertaken wild adventures destinies mine and that of our hope is lost; that we will soon “humble first servant” with such as attempting to climb nation are inextricably linked. be, if we are not already there, the mandate to render service a mountain with a name that a failed state, however defined. with enthusiasm. begins Kill-a-man and perhaps Many experts real and So how do we respond to these most importantly I would not armchair, in positions high commentators and to our As I continued thinking today be able to look back on and low, “beset us round with reality? What are we to do? about how I – as President that period, which was not dismal stories” they tell us and we – as a nation would without its hurdles – literal that T&T is perilously close As I see it we have but two navigate the course ahead, I and figurative, with a sense to the point of no return – (2) choices….Option 1 – We remembered that many years of satisfaction, pride and crime, corruption, racism, can lament, blame, criticise ago after completing several accomplishment. Could this abysmal public services and and allow a miasma of despair marathons I was looking apply to us today? I say “us” an ineffective judicial system, to overwhelm us or Option through a Runner’s World 2 we can consciously and magazine and saw an article intentionally choose the by one of the USA’s foremost alternative. Not wish for – or authorities on long distance dream about – or only hope running. He opined that and pray for the alternative, the ideal weight for a female but make up a hard mind and marathoner was 95 to 100 lbs. mobilise forces and resources I haven’t stopped laughing to step out boldly and make yet, since at my lightest I was TT a better place for us and at least twice that and then our children all the while on more serious reflection understanding that though I thought, what if I had faith is a necessity, without had this information before action it is useless. undertaking that challenge? Would I have allowed it to Let me confess up front to stop me? If I had, I would sharing certain characteristics not have stretched myself with Pollyanna – that beyond my then known storybook character filled 2 LONDON MISSION | Volume 72 NEWS / THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT with irrepressible optimism accomplishments. A flickering and a tendency to find good candle can be as effective as a in everything – but I do not blazing bushfire in the right now nor have I ever lived environment. Be a light in in an ivory tower nor worn your home, instil discipline, blinkers. I may have had model good behaviour, some advantages that others practise punctuality, honesty have not, but having lived in and politeness, or in your Trinidad & Tobago all my life, school, pay more attention to I have endured the maddening the lesson than to your phone, inefficiencies of the public protect the vulnerable, respect sector, I too drive with my those in authority, be a light windows up and doors locked in your community, care for even in broad daylight, I your environment, be tolerant have lost two cars to thieves, of views, beliefs and practices and waited hours for medical of others, re-imagine and re- attention for a relative at Port engineer the village that it of Spain General Hospital takes to raise today’s children.
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