Prime Minister extends greetings for Lent and Ramadan

“To our Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty, may this Lenten sea­son re­new your faith, deep­en your com­pas­sion, and strength­en your hope. To the Mus­lim Ummah, may your fast­ing, prayers, and char­i­ty bring you clos­er to Al­lah and fill your homes with peace, bless­ings, and el­e­vat­ed Imaan.”

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar opened her na­tion­al mes­sage with those greet­ings as Chris­tians be­gan Lent and Mus­lims en­tered Ra­madan 2026 on the same day.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar quot­ed Isa­iah 58:6 from the Holy Bible and Surah Al-Baqarah 2:183 from the Holy Qur’an, stat­ing that fast­ing is tied to jus­tice and right­eous­ness.

She said Lent is a forty-day pe­ri­od of prayer, fast­ing and re­pen­tance lead­ing to East­er and cit­ed Psalm 51:10 on re­new­al of heart and spir­it.

On Ra­madan, she said the month cen­tres on fast­ing, prayer and char­i­ty and ref­er­enced Surah Al-Baqarah 2:185 on grat­i­tude and de­vo­tion to Al­lah.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said both ob­ser­vances call for re­flec­tion, dis­ci­pline, com­pas­sion and char­i­ty, and stat­ed that fast­ing is linked to change in con­duct and sup­port for the vul­ner­a­ble.

She not­ed that cit­i­zens are gath­er­ing in church­es and mosques across Trinidad and To­ba­go and said pro­tec­tive forces and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies have im­ple­ment­ed mea­sures to al­low safe par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar called for uni­ty, re­spect and shared hu­man­i­ty as the coun­try marks the re­li­gious ob­ser­vances.