Tag: Trinidad and Tobago

By Kamal Persad- Issued 2021 Professor Courtenay Bartholomew has articulated his deep concern about the decline of the black professional class in Trinidad over recent years in a lengthy commentary ...

Arya-Hindu people all over the world pause, some on May 21 and others May 21 celebrated the birthday of Mother Seetaa. This festival brings into focus an illustrious female character, ...

Keith Rowley has the unmitigated gall and effrontery to write that the Couva Hospital was completed under the PNM in 2016. As the health care system is literally collapsing under ...

A Hindu leader with an unbridled passion to serve his community, and the people of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Maniram ‘Clifford’ Rampaul, formerly of Rio Claro, passed away on May ...

It is time that Trinidad and Tobago get serious about its political history and the personages who occupied these positions of honour and regality. I am referring to the concept ...

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 ...