Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has urged the na­tion to take a deep­er look at the long jour­ney of the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty, re­flect­ing on the hard­ships en­dured by its ear­ly devo­tees and the last­ing gen­er­a­tional ef­fects of such trau­ma, as re­vealed by psy­cho­log­i­cal re­search.

“This must not be swept un­der any prover­bial car­pet and must not be un­der­es­ti­mat­ed,” Young said in his mes­sage for Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Day.

Young said in or­der to be­gin such aware­ness and heal­ing, as a first step he will re­quest the Na­tion­al Li­brary (Nalis) to or­gan­ise a se­ries of month­ly dis­cus­sions across the coun­try on the strug­gle and tri­umph of the Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er sig­nif­i­cant junc­tures in the his­to­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go.