Michelle Loubon

What do Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards and Sec­ond Place SEA stu­dent Shemi­ah Grant have in com­mon??They were both in­vit­ed to share their as­pi­ra­tions for the ANSA McAL?time cap­sule. The of­fi­cial seal­ing took place at Tatil Build­ing, Mar­aval Road,?Port-of-Spain, on Au­gust 18. The cer­e­mo­ny co­in­cid­ed with T&T 50th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions.It is ex­pect­ed to be opened in 2062. About 104 peo­ple were cho­sen to share their as­pi­ra­tions for T&T from fields in­clud­ing law, en­ter­tain­ment, sport, pol­i­tics, busi­ness, acad­e­mia and schol­ar­ship. At the of­fi­cial cer­e­mo­ny, spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests ob­served the cer­e­mo­ni­al seal­ing. Par­tic­i­pat­ing in the seal­ing cer­e­mo­ny were ANSA?McAL Group chair­man and chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer?Nor­man Sab­ga, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Dr Bhoe Tewarie, Port-of-Spain May­or Louis Lee Sing and for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day.

The group's chief op­er­at­ing of­fi­cer Ger­ry Brooks, laud­ed promi­nent per­son­al­i­ties who had shared their as­pi­ra­tions. Lit­er­a­ture was dis­trib­uted to guests which con­tained short bios and colour por­traits on 71 peo­ple who had con­tributed.

Some, like Prof of Med­i­cine Su­ru­j­pal Teelucks­ingh, sports­cast­er Alvin Corneal and de­sign­er Meil­ing Esau were present. Though ab­sent, broad­cast­er David El­cock, artist Don­ald Jack­ie Hink­son, en­ter­tain­ers Machel Mon­tano and Rik­ki Jai, jour­nal­ist Pe­ter Blood and Sir Ed­win Car­ring­ton, Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary to the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty, shared their vi­sion for build­ing a just and eq­ui­table so­ci­ety. The late Dr Er­ic Williams' as­pi­ra­tion was shared by his daugh­ter Er­i­ca Williams Con­nell. Ace pan­nist Jit Sama­roo and No­bel Prize win­ner for Lit­er­a­ture VS Naipaul had been asked to con­tribute to the pa­tri­ot­ic ex­er­cise. Nov­el­ist Earl Lovelace, renowned for Salt and Wine of As­ton­ish­ment, shared his thoughts on the progress and pit­falls of so­ci­ety.

Oth­er con­trib­u­tors are: An­gli­can Bish­op The Right Rev­erend Claude Berkley

He grad­u­at­ed in 1991 with a BA the­ol­o­gy (Hons)?earn­ing the Col­in and Pearl Prize for Doc­trine. In 1992, he ob­tained a Diplo­ma in pas­toral stud­ies, tak­ing the St Cather­ine's and St Mark's prize for preach­ing. He was elect­ed as a dea­con in 1992. He was con­se­crat­ed as Bish­op in 2011.

T&T first rock­et sci­en­tist Camille Al­leyne

She is a li­cenced pri­vate pi­lot who was a fi­nal­ist in the 2004 As­tro­naut Se­lec­tion Pro­gramme. She is the first fe­male Trinida­di­an as­tro­naut and has ded­i­cat­ed her ca­reer to the ad­vance­ment of aero space tech­nol­o­gy and pro­mot­ing the role of space ex­plo­ration. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing on her doc­tor­ate in the area of Ed­u­ca­tion Lead­er­ship at Hous­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. She is founder and pres­i­dent of the Bright­est Stars Foun­da­tion.

Dr Nass­er Mustapha pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Trinidad Mus­lim League

He holds a Phd in So­ci­ol­o­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies and is cur­rent­ly head of Be­hav­iour­al Sci­ences, at St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. He is a mem­ber of the In­ter­na­tion­al So­ci­o­log­i­cal As­so­ci­a­tion and the Caribbean Stud­ies As­so­ci­a­tion.

Leg­endary mu­si­cian

and band­leader Roy Cape

He is the founder and leader of Roy Cape All Stars. He be­gan his mu­sic ca­reer al­most 49 years ago, de­vel­op­ing the art he learnt in the or­phan­age, where he spent part of his ear­ly child­hood. He re­ceived the Hum­ming­bird (Gold)?for his con­tri­bu­tion to cul­ture.

Founder of Liv­ing Wa­ter

Com­mu­ni­ty Rhon­da Main­got

The com­mu­ni­ty was found­ed in 1975 af­ter Main­got had a trans­form­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. Liv­ing Wa­ter is re­spon­si­ble for send­ing mis­sions to Bar­ba­dos, Grena­da, Rus­sia, St Lu­cia and Union Is­land. Main­got is the re­cip­i­ent of the Hum­ming­bird Medal (Gold) in 1986.