Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has ex­tend­ed East­er greet­ings to cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go, urg­ing re­flec­tion on the mes­sage of the sea­son and its rel­e­vance to na­tion­al life.

In her East­er 2026 mes­sage, Kan­ga­loo said the ob­ser­vance marks the Res­ur­rec­tion of Je­sus Christ and its sig­nif­i­cance with­in the Chris­t­ian cal­en­dar.

She said East­er high­lights themes of suf­fer­ing, sac­ri­fice, re­demp­tion and hope, and called on cit­i­zens to ex­am­ine their ac­tions in light of those teach­ings.

Kan­ga­loo ques­tioned whether cit­i­zens have fol­lowed the ex­am­ple of Je­sus Christ in their dai­ly lives, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­la­tion to peace, com­pas­sion and ser­vice to oth­ers.

She said ac­tions in re­cent times have re­flect­ed con­flict, in­dif­fer­ence and di­vi­sion, rather than rec­on­cil­i­a­tion and care for vul­ner­a­ble groups.

Kan­ga­loo said these pat­terns have af­fect­ed the di­rec­tion of so­ci­ety, not­ing that de­cline oc­curs over time when du­ty gives way to con­ve­nience and con­science is set aside.

She said East­er calls on cit­i­zens to as­sess their con­duct and to make choic­es aligned with moral prin­ci­ples.

Kan­ga­loo said the teach­ings of Je­sus Christ em­pha­sise broth­er­hood, mer­cy and hu­mil­i­ty, and she urged cit­i­zens to con­sid­er whether those val­ues are be­ing prac­tised.

She said there has been an in­crease in ac­tions that pro­mote di­vi­sion, re­sent­ment and self-in­ter­est, in­stead of uni­ty and co­op­er­a­tion.

Kan­ga­loo said such choic­es are made with­in the coun­try and con­tribute to na­tion­al out­comes.

She said so­ci­ety does not change in a sin­gle mo­ment but through re­peat­ed de­ci­sions that shape be­hav­iour and at­ti­tudes.

Kan­ga­loo al­so ref­er­enced the coun­try’s mix of faiths, tra­di­tions and cul­tur­al back­grounds, stat­ing that di­ver­si­ty re­mains a defin­ing fea­ture of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

She said the mes­sage of East­er ex­tends be­yond Chris­tian­i­ty to all who val­ue hu­man dig­ni­ty, moral re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and care for oth­ers.

Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo said the prin­ci­ples as­so­ci­at­ed with East­er in­clude re­new­al, ac­count­abil­i­ty and col­lec­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

She called on cit­i­zens to re­ject cru­el­ty, self­ish­ness and di­vi­sion, and to adopt val­ues such as mer­cy, re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, re­straint and sol­i­dar­i­ty.

Kan­ga­loo said build­ing a so­ci­ety for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions re­quires ac­tion guid­ed by these prin­ci­ples.

She said the ex­am­ple of Je­sus Christ high­lights ser­vice, in­clu­sion and con­tri­bu­tion to the com­mon good.

Kan­ga­loo ex­tend­ed East­er greet­ings to the Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty and all cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Prime Min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is­sued her East­er mes­sage on Holy Thurs­day where she wished the coun­try a safe, peace­ful and blessed East­er.