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Angelo Bissessarsingh

Sunday, June 16, 2013
In a recent conversation with the Minister of Energy, Senator Kevin Ramnarine (himself an accomplished historian), we came to the realisation that little is known about our oil pioneers, to whom we ow
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Even before chattel slavery ended in 1834, a skilled cook was a must for every household of substance in Trinidad.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
From the 1840s until well into the 1950s, the sugar holdings of Wm Tennant and Co were formidable. The greater part of their estates was in the Naparimas.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
William Clayton Ross established his well known Colonial Dispensary, at the corner of Queen and Frederick Streets, Port-of-Spain, around 1846.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In 1845, indentured labour from India began arriving in Trinidad primarily as labour for the sugar plantations which were the mainstay of the economy.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Even though cremation of the dead is prescribed for orthodox Hindus, the practice was illegal in Trinidad until the 1930s.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Emancipation in 1834 and the understandable reluctance of former slaves to return to a new form of bondage on the sugar plantations of Trinidad, left a massive labour void which subsequent immigration
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Child marriages and betrothals originated in the pre-Mughal era of Indian history as a means of creating a tangible bond between two families.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Generations of Trinidadians remember the Red Bridge which spanned the Southern Main Road at Plaisance Park between Pointe-a-Pierre and Claxton Bay.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
People know Laventille today for the negative stigma of crime.

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