Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son has praised the con­tri­bu­tion of the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment, say­ing the val­ues of faith, ser­vice and uni­ty are crit­i­cal as the coun­try con­fronts grow­ing so­cial chal­lenges.

Speak­ing at the An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion’s (AS­JA) 90th an­niver­sary and Fes­ti­val of Ei­ds cel­e­bra­tions in Char­lieville, Beck­les-Robin­son said the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s nine decades of ser­vice rep­re­sent an im­por­tant chap­ter in the na­tion’s his­to­ry.

She joined po­lit­i­cal lead­ers, re­li­gious rep­re­sen­ta­tives, ed­u­ca­tors and com­mu­ni­ty stake­hold­ers at the launch of A Lega­cy of Faith, Ed­u­ca­tion and Na­tion Build­ing—a 625-page pub­li­ca­tion au­thored by AS­JA Ex­ec­u­tive Mem­ber and Fi­nance Chair­man Ha­ji In­shan Mo­hamed, which doc­u­ments the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s his­to­ry.