Three to Receive Trinidad and Tobago’s Highest Award
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trinidad and Tobago is celebrating its 48th anniversary as a Republic with three people, including a prominent attorney being awarded the country’s highest honors.
Rissel Martineau SCSenior Counsel Russel Martineau, as well as the former president of the National Gas Company (NGC), Mark Loquan and Professor Patrick Hosein of the University of the West Indies, will receive the Order of the Republic of TT (ORTT) at the Republic Day awards ceremony.
In a statement, the Office of the President (OTP) said 65 people who will received national awards on Republic Day.
It said Martineau will receive the ORTT for outstanding national service in the field of law. He has been practising law since 1972. In 1981 he was appointed a senator and attorney general until 1986. In 1993 he was awarded Senior Counsel status and is a past president of the Law Association.
The OTP said Loquan has been a highly respected senior leader in the energy sector for the last two decades. It said he has made huge contributions to the industry through both his direct professional career at Yara, NGC, and his contribution to wider industry initiatives and developments.
It said Loquan is universally known and loved throughout the steelpan and music industry.
The UWI, St Augustine campus educator, Prof Patrick Hosein, will receive the ORTT for service in the sphere of technology, innovation and engineering.
The OTP said Hosein’s professional excellence is characterised by his transformative contributions to telecommunications engineering, his advocacy for multi-stakeholder collaboration, and his commitment to fostering inclusivity and innovation in the digital landscape.
Two former police commissioner, Stephen Williams and James Philbert as well as well as the former assistant commissioner of police, Joanne James, will will receive the Chaconia Medal (Silver) for national security and public service.
The President of Pan Trinbago, Beverley Ramsey-Moore will receive a Hummingbird Gold for culture/arts/community development.
“Pan Trinbago has definitely come of age in terms of the leader being acknowledged for the work we have done here in Trinidad and Tobago. Especially as a female, it is indeed a glass ceiling that was broken in 2018, and we are taking this organisation from zero to hero at this time.”
