By Raffique Shah August 07, 2023 In order for someone to enslave another human being, that unconscionable sub-human must possess sinister ways, lack empathy, and compassion. In my view a human being cannot enslave another human being because all of the above are part of humanity, most of which must be missing for the enslaver … Continue reading Emancipation: much more than pretty garb
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 07, 2023 On Tuesday, July 18, as per usual, I was researching my present project at the National Archives when Jacqueline Charles, the permanent secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, walked in. I presumed she was doing what every conscientious permanent secretary does: she was visiting one … Continue reading Emancipation Foibles – Part 3
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 06, 2023 On June 27, 2022, Margaret Heath, a member of William Hardin Burnley’s family who once owned the Orange Grove Sugar Estates, sent me an email. It read: “Dear Professor Cudjoe. I thought you might be interested to know that my brother, as executor of my mother’s estate, … Continue reading Emancipation Foibles – Part 2
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe August 03, 2023 PART I “So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.” —Ecclesiastes 4, … Continue reading Emancipation foibles
By Corey Gilkes August 02, 2023 Those of you who took god out your thoughts and were following my rants over the years know I have been saying the word “emancipation” actually means transfer ownership. And that puts into clearer perspective what dem snakes and soucouyants I was taught to celebrate as humanitarians and liberators … Continue reading What Emancipation still has not brought us
By Kamla Persad Bissessar Opposition Leader and Leader of the UNC Party August 01, 2021 – Facebook Today our nation celebrates Emancipation Day, a day that marks the abolition of the vile practice of chattel slavery. It is a day for both celebration of the liberation of enslaved Africans and an opportunity to reflect on, … Continue reading Kamla Persad Bissessar’s Emancipation Day Statement
By Dr Keith Rowley Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago August 01, 2021 – Facebook Happy Emancipation Day to all the people of Trinidad and Tobago, from the Government, my own family and myself on the occasion of Emancipation Day 2021. Today, we recognise not just the horrific experience of our African ancestors – but … Continue reading Dr Keith Rowley’s Emancipation Day Statement
…and examining colonials’ ‘deceitful bait-and-switch’ By Claudius Fergus August 16, 2020 – wired868.com In defiance of the rapid community spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, kept the promise he made on Emancipation Day 2019 to unveil T&T’s first emancipation monument—the only live public event on Emancipation Day 2020. Like many thousands of other … Continue reading Emancipating old narratives of ‘emancipation’
7th Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture Streamed live on Jun 13, 2017 On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, delivered the seventh Annual George Lamming Distinguished Lecture at The UWI Cave Hill Campus’ Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) in Barbados. Vice-Chancellor … Continue reading Britain’s Perfect Caribbean Crime: Ignored Genocide, Faked Emancipation…
By Ayinde August 02, 2016 “The stories of our past should not condemn us to the turmoil of acrimony; but rather they should show us a path for achieving the positive and prosperous development of our country now and for the generations to come. . . . We are currently writing new pages in our … Continue reading Self-Identity: The Key to Mental Emancipation