Michelle Loubon

"Fly the 5,000 flags with pride." Chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer of the ANSA?McAL Group of Com­pa­nies Ger­ry?Brooks of­fered this ad­vice to em­ploy­ees. He made this com­ment while de­liv­er­ing re­marks at the cer­e­mo­ni­al seal­ing of the ANSA McAL time cap­sule at Tatil Build­ing,?Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day.

Brooks laud­ed group chair­man A Nor­man Sab­ga, sec­tor head-me­dia and ser­vices David In­gle­field, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Tatil Musa Ibrahim and cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions team leader Sharon?Bal­roop for their sup­port and ex­e­cu­tion of the idea.

The theme was Bound­less Faith.

He said: "Every com­pa­ny, every em­ploy­ee must recog­nise and cel­e­brate T&T's gold­en an­niver­sary. Let it be a cat­a­lyst for fur­ther na­tion-build­ing. Let us build on our lega­cy and cre­ate a more pow­er­ful to­mor­row. Use this an­niver­sary to cre­ate the link be­tween past and fu­ture. And so the idea of the time cap­sule was born. "The sim­ple in­tent be­ing the reignit­ing of na­tion­al fer­vour. Our pa­tri­ot­ic spir­it makes every­thing pos­si­ble."

Ku­dos to T&T?icons

Seiz­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty, Brooks paid ku­dos to Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott and T&T?icons. He said:?"Here we sit to­day in rea­son­able pros­per­i­ty in no small mea­sure due to the sig­nif­i­cant vi­sion, pi­o­neer­ing spir­it, sac­ri­fice and ef­fort of many of our con­trib­u­tors. We thank them for their pow­er­ful life's work." Among the fields he iden­ti­fied were law, en­ter­tain­ment, sport, pol­i­tics, acad­e­mia, busi­ness and schol­ar­ship.

Among those present were tele­vi­sion pre­sen­ter Hol­ly Be­taudi­er, ra­dio pre­sen­ter Hans Hanoomans­ingh, sailors Harold and Kwailan La Bor­de, sports com­men­ta­tor Alvin Corneal. Ste­fan Jerome Poon Ying sang the Na­tion­al An­them. He al­so ex­tend­ed Eid Mubarak to the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty.