Eight former students of St. Mary’s College have now joined the ranks of the institution’s most celebrated alumni.
The inductees were honoured at the 14th biennial ceremony held on Thursday, and among them were the manager of the Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra, Ainsworth Mohammed; Attorney Martin Daly SC; businessman and former Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Robert Bermudez; former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Richard Clerk; and physician and medical surgeon Dr. Lennox Pierre.
The ceremony also paid tribute to those remembered posthumously, including former Managing Editor Alwin Chow; former Minister of Health and disability advocate Dr. Emanuel Hosein; and former National Gas Company President and cultural visionary Mark Loquan, ORTT.
Speaking at the event was a 2023 Hall of Fame inductee, Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon, who encouraged persons to remain hopeful and put their trust and faith in God.
“In this year of hope we have journeyed for the year in many different ways as church and also as society, but the real journey that we make which Marcel Proust remains us is the journey of discovery and it consist not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes and seeing the same thing in a brand new way.”
He also urged citizens to reflect on their role in shaping the nation’s future, stressing the need to define what their relationship with Trinidad and Tobago will be.
“Because over the years of our independence we’ve had this wonderful love hate relationship with this country. We have both loved it and love to hate it at the same time but we fight for we thing. This is we place.”