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

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Queen of the kitchen

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Even before chattel slavery ended in 1834, a skilled cook was a must for every household of substance in Trinidad.

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The formidable Wm Tennant and Co

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.

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Ross and Co, an original 24-hour pharmacy

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.

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Masters worked Indians hard

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.

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Hindu burials of yesteryear

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Even though cremation of the dead is prescribed for orthodox Hindus, the practice was illegal in Trinidad until the 1930s.

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Nelson Island—indentureship’s gateway

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

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