Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has paid trib­ute for the 2024 Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance, which ho­n­ours mem­bers of the armed forces who served and per­ished in World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945).

In a state­ment to­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, " I wish to pay trib­ute to the mem­o­ries and lega­cies of all the vet­er­ans, and non-com­bat per­sons, who sac­ri­ficed their lives, well-be­ing, and fu­tures on and off the bat­tle­fields of the past World Wars to fight for the no­ble cause of free­dom and dig­ni­ty.

I al­so wish to pay trib­ute to their fam­i­lies, past and present, who would have lost bread­win­ners, sons, hus­bands, and fa­thers, in ser­vice to coun­try and hu­mankind."

She added that their sac­ri­fices have en­sured that cit­i­zens can now en­joy democ­ra­cy and its gov­ern­ing prin­ci­ples of free­dom and equal­i­ty, some­thing they must al­ways be grate­ful for.

She em­pha­sised that in a world where "so many wars and con­flicts pre­vail in var­i­ous coun­tries across the world, we are re­mind­ed that free­dom is a pre­cious, and frag­ile, gift that can eas­i­ly be erod­ed or de­stroyed when we least ex­pect it."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said this time should not on­ly be used to re­flect but to al­so "take stock of our present and en­sure that we al­ways com­mit to a fu­ture of free­dom for all hu­man­i­ty by es­pous­ing and en­abling the prin­ci­ples of equal­i­ty and jus­tice for all."