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I have been asked to speak about the 'price of progress', which the organisers of History Fest 2022

Last of leaders of 1962 celebrations Friday 26 February 2021 THE EDITOR: My father Ramnarine Binda recently passed away in Winnipeg, Canada, surrounded by his wife Kausill and other family members. We believe that with his passing there are no other leaders alive who were involved in the independence celebrations of TT in 1962. Binda was chairman of the Caroni County Council during the period 1960-1968 and safety officer of Caroni Ltd from 1972 to1988. So eventful was his life of activism that he documented it all in his autobiography, Courage in Caroni, in 2009. The book is a retelling of hi...

Man for whom ferry named “HE WALKED with kings but kept the common touch.” This was the measure of the man which captured my imagination as my recollection of Alphonso Philbert Theophilus James reverberated within my spirit – a personification exemplified in extraordinary terms by the renowned India-born English poet Rudyard Kipling. My most cherished recollection of APT James dates back to that exciting evening when he was heading for the UK to present a petition to the then secretary of state for the colonies, Sir Arthur Creech Jones, pressing his case for self-government for the peop...