PM urges greater care, tolerance among citizens; Beckles marks 60 years of Divali as public holiday

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is urg­ing cit­i­zens to em­brace care, un­der­stand­ing and tol­er­ance for one an­oth­er, as she calls for the spir­it of Di­vali to ex­tend be­yond the an­nu­al cel­e­bra­tion and strength­en na­tion­al uni­ty.

In her Di­vali mes­sage, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the fes­ti­val’s en­dur­ing mes­sage of the tri­umph of light over dark­ness, good over evil and knowl­edge over ig­no­rance must trans­late in­to mean­ing­ful im­prove­ments in peo­ple’s lives.

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Draw­ing on the Holy Ra­mayana’s de­scrip­tion of Lord Ra­ma’s reign, she high­light­ed the words: “All peo­ple loved one an­oth­er.”