Saturday, October 17 2009

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HAZEL LIGHTS UP: Local Government Minister Hazel Manning (centre) and Toco/Sangre Grande MP Indra Sinanan Ojah-Maharaj (left) and Sangre Grande Region...

PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday warned that the world is at a time where it needs “deliverance”, as he committed his Government to maintaining “high ethical standards” in all aspects of national life.

“We are at a time when the world needs the light of deliverance from the very serious and common challenges facing all nations,” Manning said in his Divali message which pitched events in Trinidad and Tobago against a global backdrop.

“Your Government will continue to do its best to ensure the ongoing contribution of our nation to a progressive and stable world,” he continued. “We will persist in our emphasis that the light of discipline and high ethical standards permeat all aspects of national life.

“We will maintain our rejection of all ideas and approaches that have been responsible for the now heightened threat of calamitous consequences for all humanity.

“Let all nations and each individual continue to cherish the reminder provided by Divali and all our other diverse religious observances, that it is character and values that truly determine the quality of our lives. Let us, at this time, be instructed by the potent symbolism of the deya that, with very little material resources, we can each, with our inner essence, provide light wherever we are,” Manning said.