Tag: Ramdath Jagessar

“Ramdath Jagessar disbanded existing narratives and brought us home to reality and helped us to understand better this society.” These were the words of Independent Senator Deoroop Teemal, one among ...

Day 18 of 31 -- a Month of Reflections and Tributes to Indians in Trinidad RAMDATH JAGESSAR – PIONEER FOR INDIAN ARRIVAL DAY in TRINIDAD Indian Arrival Day is a ...

Now that Carnival is safely done for this year, perhaps it's time to revisit that old debate about its economic benefits for the country, and specifically money from carnival visitors. ...

Since her narrow loss in the 2020 election a donkey load of critics has popped up to lambaste Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar. They are all braying the same tunes ...

Dear Editor, Wow. India has enough food for its 1.4 million and enough extra to feed the world. So says Prime Minister Narendra Modi to President Joe Biden. Never thought ...

Reports and warnings have been coming from all sides that Trinidad’s national song calypso is dead, dying, walking dead or in a terminal coma. This is serious business for Trinis ...

I have started the home and family Indian Arrival Day celebration here in Toronto and invite my Indo Caribbean friends here in North America and back in the Caribbean to ...

At the end of the sixties, I was one of the early Trinidad graduates of the University of the West Indies in St Augustine and Jamaica and so was Haripersad ...

Dear Editor, Reading this horrible experience of Ramratti Prashad in Wsmar as related by researcher Baytoram Ramharack has decided me to put down some equally horrible observations sure to cause ...

Most local government politicians in Trinidad and here in Canada too are little known to most people in their area or nationally, but that cannot be said of Parasram Ramoutar ...