Category Archives: Culture

Culture, General T&T

Exposing Racism in the Medical Fraternity, Government and Media

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By A. Hotep
July 01, 2007

AfricansThere have been many complaints over the years from the public that the medical fraternity discriminates against Africans who seek to become doctors. The response was a generalization that Africans were not applying themselves for entry into the medical fraternity. Many of us knew that was not true, but those in charge did not feel inclined to investigate the racism in many of the learning institutions, including the University of the West Indies. Now that Professor Bartholomew appears to be making a similar claim, suddenly it is being taken seriously.
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Culture

Remigius Kintu at African Liberation Day Dinner

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TriniView.com Reporters
Event Date: May 26, 2007
Posted: June 06, 2007

African Liberation Day Dinner 2007Remigius Kintu was the feature speaker at the African Liberation Day Dinner organized by the Caribbean Historical Society. Gamal Nkrumah, son of Kwame Nkrumah, who was originally slated to be the feature speaker, could not attend due to the illness of his mother, who subsequently passed away. The event, held on the 26th of May 2007, commemorated the 44th anniversary of African Liberation Day and also marked the 25 years of existence of the Caribbean Historical Society. As guests filtered into the auditorium, the sweet sounds of pan music played by the Diego Martin based Ice Water Pan Ensemble were heard. The event was well-attended and the dinner was prepared by Kumasi Coalpot Services.
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Culture, Violence

Machel Montano Slapped with Five Charges

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Left: Kernel Roberts, Zan, Machel, Machel’s Father, Elizabeth and Marcus Montano
Left: Kernel Roberts, Zan, Machel, Machel’s Father, Elizabeth and Marcus Montano

Bail has been granted for the sum of $50.000 to entertainer Machel Montano who was slapped with five charges arising out of a brawl at the Zen nightclub in Port of Spain on April 26, 2007.

Also charged and placed on bail were Kernal Roberts whose bail was fixed at $25.000, Joel “Zan” Fezeck $50,000, and Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc $30,000.
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Culture

Indian Arrival Day Celebrations

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TriniView.com Reporters
Event Date: May 30, 2007
Posted: June 07, 2007

NCIC's Indian Arrival Day Celebrations 2007The National Council for Indian Culture (NCIC) held its Indian Arrival Day Celebrations at the Divali Nagar Site in Chaguanas. Indian Arrival Day celebrates the arrival of Indians to Trinidad from India under the British led Indentureship programme that was initiated to address the labour shortages that arose from Africans leaving the plantation after Emancipation.
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Culture

The East Indian Challenge

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By Stephen Kangal
May 28, 2007

IndiansThe genuine way forward to nation building for the Indian Community is identifying the challenges to be faced in forging a New Arrival in which entrepreneurship and professionalism (social and economic mobility) must go hand in hand with programmes designed to increase and promote human welfare and progress notably in the rural communities.

We all must want to create a just and caring people-centred society in which all groups will feel a sense of ownership of Trinidad and Tobago and where no one feels excluded or limited in its quest for excellence. All must play their part and not benefit vicariously from the work of other citizens.
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Culture

Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago

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By Dr. Kumar Mahabir
May 25, 2007

IndiansThe Indian heritage day will be observed as a national holiday on Wednesday May 30th.

On May 30th 1845, the Fath Al Razak docked in the Port of Spain harbour in Trinidad and Tobago with 225 adult passengers on board. The passengers were immigrants from India who had come to the British colony to work in the sugarcane plantations after the abolition of African slavery. They had spent 103 days on sea during the arduous and dangerous journey that spanned 14,000 miles (36,000 km). The immigrants were contracted for five to ten years to work in the sugarcane estates in a system that ended in 1917.
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Culture, Violence

Artistes face assault charges

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Left: Kernel Roberts, Zan, Machel, Machel’s Father, Elizabeth and Marcus Montano
Left: Kernel Roberts, Zan, Machel, Machel’s Father, Elizabeth and Marcus Montano

3 face Zen fracas charges

By Nalinee Seelal, newsday.co.tt
Thursday, May 24 2007

HEAD of the Port-of-Spain Division Snr Supt Steve Waldron yesterday instructed the Belmont police to lay charges against three men stemming from an alleged fracas which occurred outside the Zen nightclub, Port-of-Spain, on April 26.
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Culture, International

Slaves, Amerindians and poor whites

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By Marion O’Callaghan, newsday.co.tt
Monday, May 14 2007

AfricansIt seemed an ordinary enough church until someone pointed me to the angels.

“It is the only church in Latin America,” he said proudly, “with black angels.”

I hadn’t thought of it before. I had seen a black and miraculous Jesus, a black Virgin-Mother, but never black angels. Here the cherubim who worship God day and night, were black. I tried to disentangle symbol from what may well have been only a vapse portrayal by some artist. We were here in the heart of Peru’s cotton farms and-since they go together-in the heart of Afro-Peru although neither the words Afro-Peru nor Black Peru describes the people in the villages and homesteads which stretched beyond the church.
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