Tag: Trinidad

The Indian Diaspora Council International (IDC) joins with its global affiliates and membership in paying honored tribute and expressing its gratitude to those who made the first journeys as indentured ...

The Trump Administration, through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, on Friday afternoon said anyone, with some exceptions, in the US and seeking (being sponsored for) a green card must ...

May 5 is now celebrated annually in Guyana as a national holiday, termed Arrival Day, to commemorate the arrival of various indentured immigrant groups in the country. Previously, this date ...

(Indian) Arrival Day in Guyana, celebrated annually on May 5, commemorates the first arrival (1838) of Indians to the South American British colony and those that came after and their ...

Dr. DAVID DABYDEEN, award winning author, Emeritus Professor David Dabydeen (Warwick University), Guyana’s Ambassador-at-large, Honourable Fellow Selwyn College Cambridge University, and Director at the Ameena Gafoor Institute for Indentured Studies, ...

Traditional Taan or classical Indo Guyanese rural folk singing was featured in a Guyanese cultural concert in Jamaica, Queens last Sunday afternoon. Dozens of individuals and groups partook in the ...

By the mid-1980s the Temple in the Sea at Waterloo, Carapichaima, had crumbled. This iconic cultural landmark was no more and there was the urgent need for sons and daughters ...

Reference the controversy over the selection of Dr Carla Barnett as Secretary General of CARICOM as reported in your paper! Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar and the government of T&T ...

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐍. 𝐌𝐎𝐇𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐀𝐋𝐋, 𝐒.𝐂, 𝐌.𝐏 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐒, 𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐔𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐀 on the Oral Presentations in 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐆𝐔𝐄 on Guyana ...

Trinidad and Tobago was the first country in the diaspora to declare Indian Arrival Day a national holiday on May 30, 1995 to mark the 150th anniversary of Indian Arrival. ...