President Christine Kangaloo says the general caustic and corrosive tone of discourse in TT would make it a challenge for youths to apply the pathways of peace they learned at the Model UN 2025.

Giving the feature address at the Rotary Club of Central Port of Spain 25th Annual Model UN at the Cascadia Hotel, St Ann’s, on November 8, she described TT’s environment as "hostile."

“Participants emerging from out of this year’s programme will have to contend with the widespread use of language in the public space that tends, more often, to divide and to tear down than it does to heal divisions and to build up, language that is atypical to the values and the core purpose of the United Nations.”