Tag: Kamal Persad

By Dr. Devant Maharaj The passing of Kamal Persad is not just the end of a life; it is the closure of an era that profoundly shaped the intellectual and ...

I first met Kamal Persad at an Indian Arrival Day procession in Sangre Grande in the 1980s sponsored by the Hindu Seva Sangh. He was in the company of Kumar ...

Trinidad and Tobago, contemporary Indian Trinidadian history, has lost an irreplaceable figure with the passing of Kamal Persad, educator and public commentator who died last week. I had the pleasure ...

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has entered the debate in the American curriculum issue on Black History. He said that “and most recently, bold faced morons are now even suggesting ...

Christopher Columbus continues to evoke historical record in the Americas. Khafra Kambon, Shabaka Kambon, Raviji, Pearl Entou Springer, Prof. Bridget Brereton, the late Dr Brinsley Samaroo et al, want to ...

By Kamal Persad Mr. Aston Ford, former PNM general secretary, letter “Panday, the revisionist provocateur” is inaccurate in terms of the history of the country, especially with the Federal Elections ...

Gwynne Dyer highlighted the “phenomenon of nuclear winter between India and Pakistan with nuclear weapons. The effects would be worldwide.” (Express 03/01/22). He, however, has ignored the causes between India ...

The (Ag) Police Commissioner, Mc Donald Jacob, said, “the public has no need to panic over the possibility of any uprising in the country.” He was responding to the Jamaat-al- ...

In his column A Black Race Position, Selwyn Cudjoe wrote that Prof. Brian Copeland, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies has a “vision if our university is ...

(ICDN is pleased to re-publish this article which was first published in ICDN on February 15, 2020 under the title “Why not all Children? Giving the ongoing debate to discredit ...