By Michael Harris September 11, 2011 – trinidadexpress.com My column last Monday [PNM’s children] seems to have ignited something of a furore among readers. On talk shows, in the blogs, and in letters to the editor, there was a surprisingly huge outpouring of feedback as everyone appeared to have something to say about my article.
By Selwyn Ryan August 15, 2010 I overheard someone complaining on a call-in programme during Emancipation week that people of African origin in Trinidad were a different breed from those in other islands of the Caribbean. It was not clear whether the caller meant to say that the Trinis were a worse or a better … Continue reading Emancipation: some creation myths
THE EDITOR: After four hundred years of shackle slavery, and the worst kind of atrocities ever inflicted on any race of people bar none, all because of their melanin and without any apology and compensation, and therapy for Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome, I am totally puzzled and confused with the reason for the celebration of … Continue reading Emancipation Celebration?
Emancipation Day Celebrations 2010 in pictures Kamla: Emancipation about struggle, triumph PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday urged the nation to not only see Emancipation Day as merely a public holiday but rather to reflect on the struggles of the ancestors of Afro-Trinbagonians who rose up from the chattel of slavery to take their rightful place … Continue reading Emancipation: When Freedom Come
Message from His Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards TC, CMT, Ph. D, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on the Occasion of Emancipation Day 2010. On the occasion of Emancipation Day 2010, I send greetings to all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, as we consider what this day means to us.
Message to the nation from the Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar on the occasion of the celebration of Emancipation Day 2010 Fellow citizens. Today our nation commemorates the 172nd Anniversary of Emancipation in Trinidad and Tobago. That historic act on August 1, 1838, destroyed the moral and legal basis of a system, which allowed human beings to … Continue reading Prime Minister’s Emancipation Day 2010 Address
THE EDITOR: Possible points of confluence, and of departure between the ‘Ganges and the Nile’? As Emancipation, T&T ’10 approaches, and considering possible choices for ongoing nationhood, three prescient thinkers, one in each of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, are worth citing. One is William Faulkner, the Nobel prize-winning American author; the other, George … Continue reading Emancipation 2010: ‘Ganges and the Nile’?
By Raffique Shah Sunday, August 3rd 2008 AS many of my African brethren gathered over the past week to mark Emancipation Day, I reflected on just how emancipated we are. And I don’t mean just Afro-Trinis, I mean all of us who form the melting pot that is Trinidad and Tobago. I started this column … Continue reading Emancipation an unrealised dream
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe July 31, 2008 The Airports Authority’s emancipation exhibit in its atrium proudly proclaims, “Happy Emancipation” and informs us that “in 1985, Trinidad and Tobago became the first country in the world to declare a national holiday, Emancipation Day, to commemorate the abolition of slavery on August 1, 1834.” As I … Continue reading Happy Emancipation!
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu July 25, 2008 One hundred and seventy-four years have passed since Afrikans were emancipated from European enslavement. Nevertheless, their descendants in TnT are still irreversibly entangled in the web of historical-ancestral dislocation and powerlessness. The fact of the matter is that in 2008, the descendants of these ‘freed’ slaves are still … Continue reading Emancipation vs Liberation