Trinity Cross committee: ‘Can’t please everyone’

He met the appointees at Whitehall office, after which reporters met them.

Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) president, Gregory Aboud, reticent to talk to reporters, said, “This is a matter that requires careful consideration, and members of the committee have taken their responsibility very seriously and you will respect that I’m sure.”

Reporters asked if he was worried about public division over the issue. Aboud replied, “You understand that it is impossible to please everybody, every time. Clearly the objective of the Government here is to try to please as many as possible and we will try to do that.”

Asked if the committee could really meet its mid-July deadline, he replied, “Yes, we are going to make an effort”.

Committee chairman and University of the West Indies (UWI) historian, Prof Bridget Brereton, said the committee would meet later this month. “That’s all we can tell you at this stage because we have literally begun our work.”

Was she worried about rumblings over the move to change the Trinity Cross?

“I’m not ‘concerned.’ We will pay attention but we have a job to do and we plan to do it, as effectively as possible.”