Tag: Trinidad and Tobago

Editor,ICDN I refer to the “Eid Mubarak” supplement in the Guardian (13th May 2021) and the article “Eid before sawine. A historical view of Muslims in Trinidad” by the MAI ...

I have held off to date from commenting on the remarks of Ms Walton-Desir that has precipitated such a heated debate on race and racism in Guyana. On a social ...

Is de first time dat I hear Irfaanexcept for social conversationand I got to admit, I didn’t seeanything I was warned to look fah,no puppet strings nor puppeteer,in fact, I ...

My call last week for the May 5 Public Holiday - “Arrival Day” -  to be renamed “Indian Arrival Day”, elicited several objections. One interlocutor even claimed I was “unpatriotic”. ...

Indian Guyanese have lost their mother tongues (they brought from India) in Guyana and other territories in the Caribbean region, except Suriname. Between 1838 and 1917 around 240,000 Indian immigrants ...

Diaspora Indians or Indians in the Caribbean and the Western World, who were not afraid to explore new frontiers such as America often, faced 'good hell,' when they arrived on ...

May 5th was officially designated a Public Holiday, “Arrival Day” in 2004. But before then and since it has been commemorated across Guyana as “Indian Arrival Day”.  How did this ...

“Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth Where timeless striving ...

On Wednesday May 5, we will be commemorating “Indian Arrival Day” – which is still officially dubbed “Arrival Day”, supposedly because the government wants to acknowledge the contributions and impact ...

The huge fire at Sharon’s Mall on April 28 evokes the urgent need for adequate building construction with updated building codes, especially electric circuit designs and shut off mechanisms (like ...