Stu­dents from sev­er­al schools with­in Port-of-Spain and en­vi­rons have been urged to place their health as a top pri­or­i­ty, since their health is their wealth and that the health of Trinidad and To­ba­go was all about the health of its youth.

The com­ment came from Mrs Sharon Row­ley, wife of Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, pa­tron of the Fifth Edi­tion of En To­To’s Sec­ondary School Fit­ness Fair held be­fore Car­ni­val at the Nel­son Man­dela Park, St Clair.

The theme for the event this year was “It’s ok to do Right”.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, sev­er­al Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters were al­so in at­ten­dance in­clud­ing Stu­art Young, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy, Min­is­ter of State in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Sham­fa Cud­joe, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, as well as rep­re­sen­ta­tives from both the Min­istries of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Health and Ed­u­ca­tion.

Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary at the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices, Jac­in­ta Bai­ley-Sobers, who spoke on be­half of Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, em­pha­sized the im­por­tance of liv­ing a healthy lifestyle.

She said, “Our body has to do with our mind and our over­all well-be­ing so we need to take good care of it”.

Bai­ley-Sobers al­so high­light­ed the need for the stu­dents to take mes­sages about good health and fit­ness back to their homes, schools, and work­places and be­come ‘fit­ness bud­dies’ for each oth­er.

En To­To which host­ed the event is a Non-Gov­ern­men­tal Or­gan­i­sa­tion (NGO), ded­i­cat­ed to chang­ing the so­cial land­scape through youth-ori­ent­ed ini­tia­tives in the coun­try.