Sagicor plants 185 trees in Chaguaramas to mark 185th Anniversary

Staff of Sagi­cor, their fam­i­lies and en­vi­ron­men­tal part­ner Eco Ti­tans Com­mu­ni­ty plant­ed 185 trees in Ch­aguara­mas on Sat­ur­day as part of the com­pa­ny’s com­mem­o­ra­tive 185 Trees ini­tia­tive.

The Hike and Plant event brought to­geth­er about 133 staff mem­bers, chil­dren and rel­a­tives for an ac­tiv­i­ty fo­cused on en­vi­ron­men­tal ac­tion and fam­i­ly par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The ini­tia­tive forms part of a wider cam­paign across 16 mar­kets where Sagi­cor op­er­ates, mark­ing the com­pa­ny’s 185 years of ser­vice across the Caribbean and the Amer­i­c­as.

Or­gan­is­ers orig­i­nal­ly planned to plant 120 trees in Trinidad but ex­pand­ed the ef­fort to 185 af­ter strong in­ter­est from em­ploy­ees and their fam­i­lies.

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of Sagi­cor Life Inc Robert Tre­strail thanked par­tic­i­pants and or­gan­is­ers for sup­port­ing the ini­tia­tive.

“From Bar­ba­dos to the Caribbean, and now across the Amer­i­can hemi­sphere, Sagi­cor’s lega­cy has been built not on­ly through busi­ness suc­cess, but through peo­ple, com­mu­ni­ties and long-term in­vest­ment in the fu­ture,” he said.

“Plant­i­ng trees is a pow­er­ful sym­bol be­cause trees out­live us and con­tin­ue to pro­vide val­ue for gen­er­a­tions.”

Vice-Pres­i­dent of Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Sagi­cor South­ern Caribbean, Asha Nab­bie said the ini­tia­tive re­flects the com­pa­ny’s com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

“Plant­i­ng trees to­day is an in­vest­ment in to­mor­row, a last­ing sym­bol of growth, re­silience and hope for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions,” she said.

Sagi­cor said the ini­tia­tive will con­tin­ue lat­er this year with a To­ba­go Hike and Plant ac­tiv­i­ty.