‘The International Textile & Apparel Sustainability Conference’

 

 

 

 

 

 

I extend a warm welcome to all the participants and particularly those who have come from far to be present at ‘The International Textile & Apparel Sustainability Conference’ .In this conference the participants are going to learn a lot, how to tackle issues of sustainability and I hope the conference proceedings will be disseminated as widely as possible among the various stakeholders. I pay tribute to our farsighted thinkers and visionaries like our first Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Sir Edouard Lim Fat and Mr José Poncini for believing that  textile sector could be  a very important pillar of our national economy specially at a time when unemployment was very high specially among the young people. We are thankful to Sir Edouard Lim Fat, Mr Jose Pocini and late  Mr Tang Wing Haw who  set up the first EPZ enterprises and nurtured them to success. They were the pioneers of the sector. I also want to pay tribute to all the workers as well as our foreign workers and particularly the female workers who had been the backbone of our textile industry. I wish all the participants fruitful deliberations.