Media Release for President Paula-Mae Weekes
The Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad & Tobago congratulates newly inaugurated President, Justice Paula-Mae Weekes
Letter
Emancipation Greeting
Brothers and Sisters and all people of goodwill, Good morning. Today, we celebrate the 176th anniversary of our ancestors’ emancipation from chattel slavery. This is the Event, the day that we eventually walked off the plantations after four years of further enslavement called the Apprenticeship period, which was shortened by our people’s agitation and resistance. …
Lessons learnt from Garvey as Reparation talks continue
Facebook Event “What can the Caribbean Reparation Campaign learn from the Garvey Movement?” The question will be answered at the next installment of the Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series by Dr Rupert Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Political Thought in the Department of Government of the University of the West Indies, Mona. As Caricom strengthens its …
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