KRISTY RAM­NAR­INE

kristy.ram­nar­ine@cnc3.co.tt

A pow­er­ful new ad­di­tion to T&T’s cul­tur­al and spir­i­tu­al cal­en­dar has been launched—Di­vine Har­monies, a na­tion­al Gospel Choir com­pe­ti­tion, is set to de­but on De­cem­ber 6 at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, start­ing at 5 pm.

The event is a joint ini­tia­tive be­tween the T&T Coun­cil of Evan­gel­i­cal Church­es and William Munro, a well-known fig­ure in the lo­cal en­ter­tain­ment and busi­ness land­scape. It promis­es to be more than just a mu­si­cal com­pe­ti­tion—or­gan­is­ers are billing it as a cel­e­bra­tion of faith, uni­ty, and com­mu­ni­ty.

Apos­tle An­tho­ny Gul­ston, Sec­re­tary of the Coun­cil, de­scribed Di­vine Har­monies as both a spir­i­tu­al move­ment and a cul­tur­al mile­stone.

“We see this event as not just a con­cert of choirs, but the be­gin­ning of a re­vival—a move of God com­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go,” said Gul­ston.

“As these choirs join to­geth­er to mag­ni­fy and wor­ship the Lord, they will help ush­er in the pres­ence of God in­to our na­tion. This is some­thing the coun­try can tru­ly look for­ward to, and we are very hap­py to part­ner with Mr Munro.”

Munro’s jour­ney from Car­ni­val im­pre­sario to spir­i­tu­al ad­vo­cate is a sto­ry of re­mark­able trans­for­ma­tion.

Born in Grena­da and mi­grat­ing to Trinidad at age 16, he be­gan his work­ing life as a ma­son and builder, even­tu­al­ly mov­ing in­to trade, busi­ness, and re­al es­tate.

In the 1970s, he en­tered the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try and lat­er found­ed the Caribbean Pres­tige Foun­da­tion in 1993, launch­ing ma­jor so­ca com­pe­ti­tions like the In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy, Pow­er So­ca, and Ju­nior Monarch events.

Af­ter decades of suc­cess in Car­ni­val, Munro made a life-al­ter­ing de­ci­sion.

In 2019, dur­ing a rou­tine vis­it to col­lect rent from a church ten­ant on Hen­ry Street, he heard a mes­sage that changed his life. On his third Sun­day at­tend­ing that church, he an­swered the al­tar call and sur­ren­dered his life to Je­ho­vah God—a de­ci­sion he calls the best of his life.

Since then, Munro has re­mained com­mit­ted to his spir­i­tu­al jour­ney, sup­port­ing min­istries across the coun­try and wor­ship­ping reg­u­lar­ly at the Chris­t­ian Union Church San Juan Re­vival Min­istries, as well as fel­low­ship­ping with church­es such as Tehillah Wor­ship Cen­tre and Covenant Fam­i­ly Wor­ship Cen­tre.

Now, Munro is part­ner­ing with the Coun­cil to cre­ate a na­tion­al plat­form for choir groups, aim­ing to up­lift com­mu­ni­ties, pro­mote uni­ty, and spot­light gospel mu­sic as a pow­er­ful ex­pres­sion of cul­ture and faith.

“When I do any­thing, I like to do it close to per­fec­tion,” Munro stat­ed. “This event won’t just be grand—it will be blessed by Je­ho­vah God.”

The win­ning choir will re­ceive a grand prize of $100,000, with 25 per cent go­ing to the church the choir rep­re­sents and 75 per cent ded­i­cat­ed to the choir’s pro­gramme.

Or­gan­is­ers are invit­ing choirs from all de­nom­i­na­tions to par­tic­i­pate and raise their voic­es in praise, be­liev­ing that this event will ig­nite a wave of pos­i­tive en­er­gy, faith, and cul­tur­al pride through­out T&T.