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Friday, June 27, 2025

Emancipation Day to be renamed African Emancipation Day

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Shamica Denoon, right and another member of the the Tobago Heritage participate in the Tobago Emancipation Day parade from the Coliseum Mall Pigeon Point Junction to the Store bay beach facilities, on Tuesday.

Shamica Denoon, right and another member of the the Tobago Heritage participate in the Tobago Emancipation Day parade from the Coliseum Mall Pigeon Point Junction to the Store bay beach facilities, on Tuesday.

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Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced Cab­i­net has ap­proved a change of name for the Eman­ci­pa­tion hol­i­day. 

This Au­gust 1st, the new name will be African Eman­ci­pa­tion Day. 

He made the com­ment at a me­dia con­fer­ence a short while ago.

Prime Min­is­ter Row­ley said, "The time has come for us to make it quite clear what eman­ci­pa­tion means; and who is be­ing eman­ci­pat­ed. "

He said he no­ticed in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, oth­ers were, " at­tempt­ing to climb on­to the Eman­ci­pa­tion band­wag­on and at­tempt­ing to add ap­pendages to it. "

He said since Trinidad and To­ba­go led the world in mak­ing Eman­ci­pa­tion Day a hol­i­day, he want­ed to make it clear that "eman­ci­pa­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go is as a re­sult of the eman­ci­pa­tion of slaves. "

"There's no com­par­i­son be­tween slav­ery and any oth­er form of hu­man in­dig­na­tion," Row­ley said. "We are de­scen­dants of slaves. We have a du­ty to pre­serve our his­to­ry, or lega­cy and make our claim with­out apolo­gies to any­one."

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