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Ponte Vecchio, Florence

Published on September 1, 2010 in Culture and General T&T. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
September 01, 2010

DancersEven as a teenager I was attracted to the arts. When I participated in the Arts Festival (I think that was the correct name) that preceded the Better Village Program inaugurated by Dr. Eric Williams in 1964, I acted under Errol Hill, learned public speaking with his sister Jean Herbert and choral-speaking under David King, a true village patriot of Tacarigua. These stalwarts labored in the artistic vineyards to produce a more responsive citizenry and to cultivate a more rounded aesthetic sensibility that was appropriate for a nation that was coming into being.
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Besson’s Cruel Accusations

Published on July 23, 2010 in Books, Culture, General T&T and Race and Identity. 5 Comments Tags: , , , .

By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
July 23, 2010

Part I

Abu BakrGerard Besson’s The Cult of the Will seeks to challenge the historical orthodoxy that undergirds Dr. Eric Williams’s analysis of the causes of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade and the cruelty he perpetuated against the entire society although whites seems to come out worse in the bargain. According to Besson, Williams sought “to facilitate the stigmatization of Caribbean people of European descent, or those who appear so, through the projection of negative concepts of ‘slave master’ or ‘colonial master,’ to modern-day individuals for political and ideological purposes.”
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Williams, Daaga and Black Power

Published on May 11, 2010 in COP, Culture, Election 2010, General T&T, Media, NJAC, People's Partnership, PNM, Politics, Race and Identity and UNC. 10 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Dr Eric Williams and Makandal Daaga

Dr Eric Williams and Makandal Daaga

How 1970 uprising changed Government policy…

By Ken Ali
May 11, 2010 – guardian.co.tt

Dr Eric Williams, Trinidad and Tobago’s first Prime Minister and acclaimed “Father of the Nation”, was an apostle of the ideals of Black Power.
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Williams went to obeah woman

Published on November 7, 2009 in Culture, Features, PNM and Politics. 15 Comments Tags: , , .

By Sean Douglas
November 07, 2009 – newsday.co.tt

Dr Eric WilliamsHistorian Prof Selwyn Ryan said that on balance former prime minister, the late Dr Eric Williams, was a positive force for Trinidad and Tobago but had done negative acts which affect the country to this very day.

Ryan gave a talk on Williams as part of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) research fellow series of lectures on Thursday at the National Library, Port-of-Spain.
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A leader can be challenged

Published on October 21, 2009 in Features, General T&T, PNM, Politics and UNC. Closed Tags: , , , .

By George Alleyne
October 21, 2009 – newsday.co.tt

PNMWe should move away from the old thinking that if a Member of the House of Representatives should cast his vote not in accordance with the dictates of his Party, read Political Leader, on even a routine matter that he is a traitor and a renegade.
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