Charles Kong Soo

Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Min­is­ter Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters be­lieves if in 100 years Wood­brook can be trans­formed from a sug­ar es­tate to a mod­ern flour­ish­ing com­mu­ni­ty, so too can the na­tion.He was speak­ing at a cer­e­mo­ny to un­veil the plaque to com­mem­o­rate the 100th an­niver­sary of Wood­brook at Siegert Square on Mon­day. The event was or­gan­ised by the Wood­brook Com­mu­ni­ty As­so­ci­a­tion (WCA)."If Wood­brook can take 100 years and turn a sug­ar es­tate in­to what we have here to­day, if we care­ful­ly man­age na­ture, then we too can do this and in the next 100 years time."It is not on­ly be­cause of the his­to­ry of this won­der­ful project, but in a lot of ways it is in front of us and this will serve as a re­minder to all and sundry that we must take care of what is ours," Pe­ters said.He said the world to­day was much dif­fer­ent to 100 years ago, and was one in which peo­ple were not as re­spect­ful of things, and didn't give much care for how things got here be­cause they were so far re­moved from it.

"The peo­ple of our gen­er­a­tion, we are still in a lot of ways clos­er to the things that brought us to where we are to­day than the younger gen­er­a­tion," he said."It is in­cum­bent up­on us to teach them ex­act­ly what they have to do with what we are do­ing here to­day." Al­so present at the cer­e­mo­ny were Port-of-Spain deputy may­or Ke­iron Valen­tine, Wood­brook coun­cil­lor Cleve­land Gar­cia, WCA chair­man David Cameron, WCA vice-chair­man Do­minic Pierre-Louis, his­to­ri­an En­ri­co Ra­jah, man­ag­er Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions An­gos­tu­ra Giselle La Ronde-West and CEO An­gos­tu­ra Wayne Yip Choy.