Free­lance Con­trib­u­tor

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the in­au­gur­al Miss Afro Trinidad and To­ba­go Pageant as a fit­ting cel­e­bra­tion of African her­itage, re­mem­brance and na­tion­al iden­ti­ty, com­mend­ing Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Michelle Ben­jamin for in­tro­duc­ing what she be­lieves can be­come a last­ing fix­ture on the coun­try’s African Eman­ci­pa­tion cal­en­dar.

Ad­dress­ing a stand­ing-room-on­ly au­di­ence of more than 700 pa­trons at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (SAPA), San Fer­nan­do, on Thurs­day night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the great­est trib­ute T&T could pay to its African an­ces­tors was to re­mem­ber their sac­ri­fices and cel­e­brate the en­dur­ing lega­cy they left be­hind.