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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Saith: Meritocracy at forefront in T&T

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Trinidad and To­ba­go is a coun­try where mer­i­toc­ra­cy takes the fore­front, said Dr Lenny Saith, the Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter. He was ad­dress­ing a func­tion in his ho­n­our at the Taj Ma­hal Ho­tel, Mans­ingh Road, New Del­hi, Mon­day. The func­tion was held by T&T High Com­mis­sion­er to In­dia, Pun­dit Maniedeo Per­sad, and his wife, Ro­hi­ni. Saith was the re­cip­i­ent of the pres­ti­gious Pravasi Bharatiya Sam­man award last week­end at the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny of the eighth Pravasi Bharatiya Di­was con­fer­ence in Del­hi.

He told the gath­er­ing T&T was a land of di­ver­si­ty that had to be man­aged prop­er­ly and ef­fec­tive­ly. Saith, an In­do-Trinida­di­an, said po­lit­i­cal sup­port in T&T came from the two ma­jor racial groups. He said his par­ty's sup­port came large­ly from the Afro-Trinida­di­ans. He said he was proud to play a role in bridg­ing the gap be­tween the two ma­jor races and one way to do so was through a sys­tem of mer­i­toc­ra­cy.

Saith spoke of his days in In­dia when he stud­ied en­gi­neer­ing in 1955 and the strong ca­ma­raderie he de­vel­oped with his col­leagues in In­dia. Per­sad spoke at length of Saith's role in pol­i­tics and his ca­reer. Saith's award rep­re­sent­ed a recog­ni­tion by the In­di­an Gov­ern­ment of the role he has played as a per­son of In­di­an ori­gin in the process of na­tion-build­ing in T&T, he said. Per­sad said Saith played a piv­otal role as the PNM chair­man af­ter the 33 to three NAR vic­to­ry in 1986 to re­struc­ture the par­ty to once again gain of­fice.


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