Message from His Excellency Orville London High Commissioner

Over a period of less than two months, Trinidad and Tobago will have celebrated three important events, each of which send an identical and increasingly relevant message. On 1 st August, we celebrated Emancipation Day; we celebrated the 55th Anniversary of our Independence on 31 st August and on 24 th September, we will be in a celebratory, and hopefully reflective, mood again when we commemorate the attainment of Republican status, in 1976. These three milestones signalled the attainment of greater freedom and greater control of our lives, but just as importantly, they instructed us to take greater responsibility for our future and our destiny.