Tag: indian culture

Some years ago, I came across Panday and he excitedly told me how he was shopping at South Hall in London and came across a book of Hindi names (not ...

Organization issues a press release. Founded under the leadership of the Late Pandit Reepu Daman Persaud on January 8, 1974, the Guyana Dharmic Sabha on Monday commemorated half a century ...

Our Republican Constitution must be the framework in whatever pursuits we undertake, whether we are developing programmes and strategies aimed at reducing crime or stimulating economic development. In Trinidad and ...

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Basdeo Panday’s life was his message, one that permeated the nation-state of Trinidad and Tobago, and this fully evolved when he along with George Weekes, then President ...

It was one of the best tributes (eulogies) I saw or heard and perhaps the best speech President Christine Kangaloo (of Trinidad and Tobago) ever delivered. Kangalooo shone like a ...

My clip on Prime Minister Basdeo Panday takes me way back to the sixties. when San Fernando was mostly wooden buildings and Basdeo Panday known fondly as Bass was a ...

From Ravi Maharaj Basdeo Panday once told the story of one of his friends, a lifelong UNC supporter who was dying and hospitalized at the time. When Mr. Panday went ...

From Gary Griffith As Minister of National Security, I was tasked with coordinating the State Funeral of His Excellency ANR Robinson, which lasted 5 days. Held in Trinidad and then ...

From supporter with initials AM. The parking at a distance and the long walk to the crematorium at Mosquito Creek was always going to be a challenge. The procession and ...

Basdeo Panday died on New Year’s Day. A state funeral was held for the former Prime Minister on Tuesday January 9. His funeral rites (Hindu) and tributes to him brought ...