Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Chair­man of the Dr Er­ic Williams Memo­r­i­al Com­mit­tee Regi­nald Vi­dale wants Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to ho­n­our the fa­ther of the na­tion by plac­ing his por­trait in every school in T&T.

In his ad­dress at a memo­r­i­al cer­e­mo­ny at the Scar­bor­ough Es­planade in To­ba­go on Sat­ur­day, Vi­dale said that would help pre­serve the lega­cy and mes­sage of the coun­try’s first prime min­is­ter.

He said stu­dents must be re­mind­ed of Williams’ mes­sage on the eve of In­de­pen­dence in 1962.

“You must re­spect your par­ents, re­spect your teach­ers, re­spect your an­them, re­spect all that I gave to you. Re­spect it and con­tin­ue to re­spect it,” he said.

“And if this coun­try needs to go any fur­ther, I ask the young peo­ple to re­spect what Dr Williams had asked you on the 30th of Au­gust 1962—that was his bless­ing to you all.”

Vi­dale asked the new gov­ern­ment to “con­tin­ue giv­ing the com­mit­tee your sup­port in keep­ing the mem­o­ry and lega­cy of the fa­ther of the na­tion, rel­e­vant and sig­nif­i­cant to the chil­dren of the na­tion.”

He con­grat­u­lat­ed Per­sad-Bisses­sar on be­com­ing “his­tor­i­cal­ly, the first fe­male prime min­is­ter to be ap­point­ed on two oc­ca­sions.”

He al­so ex­tend­ed best wish­es to To­ba­go’s new MPs.