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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Michael Anthony honoured with citation from Sando corporation

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Sascha Wilson
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San Fernando mayor Junia Regrello presenst Caribbean author and historian Michael Anthony with a plaque for his contribution to the City of San Fernando during a statutory meeting on Wednesday. 0

San Fernando mayor Junia Regrello presenst Caribbean author and historian Michael Anthony with a plaque for his contribution to the City of San Fernando during a statutory meeting on Wednesday. 0

RISHI RAGOONATH

Sascha Wil­son

Em­i­nent au­thor and his­to­ri­an Dr Michael An­tho­ny was yes­ter­day ho­n­oured with a ci­ta­tion from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion for his con­tri­bu­tion to the south­ern city.

Thank­ing San Fer­nan­do may­or Ju­nia Re­grel­lo and the coun­cil for ho­n­our­ing him, An­tho­ny, 90, cred­it­ed San Fer­nan­do as the place where his path as a writer took flight.

He was speak­ing at a spe­cial seg­ment at the Cor­po­ra­tion´s Statu­to­ry Meet­ing dur­ing which he was ho­n­oured and award­ed the ci­ta­tion.

The coun­cil al­so moved a mo­tion task­ing An­tho­ny with writ­ing a sec­ond book, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with oth­er writ­ers, about the his­to­ry of San Fer­nan­do from 1900 to 2020. It will a con­tin­u­a­tion of his first book, Ana­pari­ma, which is about the his­to­ry of San Fer­nan­do from 1595 to 1900.

In his brief re­marks, An­tho­ny gave an in­sight in­to how a boy from the rur­al vil­lage of Ma­yaro came to be­come one of the best au­thors in the Caribbean and why San Fer­nan­do has a spe­cial place in his heart.

“When­ev­er I come to San Fer­nan­do I al­ways feel a bit spe­cial be­cause one of the rea­sons I feel so spe­cial is that very ear­ly in my life an event took place that re­al­ly made a pro­found dif­fer­ence to my life.”

He re­called that at age ten he was play­ing in his yard in Ma­yaro when he was ap­proached by a man who asked him if he want­ed to live in San Fer­nan­do. The man had a dilem­ma be­cause his sick el­der­ly moth­er lived in San Fer­nan­do and he want­ed some­one who could run er­rands for her.

When he asked him if he want­ed to live at his house in San Fer­nan­do, An­tho­ny agreed. “He spoke to my moth­er and she said, ´once you agree that he will go to school, I will al­low him to go to San Fer­nan­do to live.”

Re­call­ing the day he left his fam­i­ly on Jan­u­ary 1, 1941, he could not ex­plain how he felt.

He had nev­er left Ma­yaro and he did want to part with his sib­lings, but he want­ed to see San Fer­nan­do.

“It looked like a sort of coun­try town but to me, it was the big city,” he said.

If some­one had asked him at sev­en years old what he want­ed to be, he would have said a writer or maybe a po­et. Not­ing how fond mem­o­ries of his child­hood like him walk­ing the beach on the way to school, would resur­face when­ev­er he vis­its San Fer­nan­do, An­tho­ny said the main thing he would re­mem­ber is that if there were no San Fer­nan­do he would not have been be­come a writer and ac­com­plished all that he has in his life.

An­tho­ny al­so ad­vised young up­com­ing writ­ers to nev­er give up and be sim­ple— don’t search for big words, don’t write as though you know every­thing about Eng­lish.

In his trib­ute to An­tho­ny, the Re­grel­lo said the Hum­ming­bird Gold Na­tion­al Award re­cip­i­ent is great­ly known for his work as a West In­di­an au­thor of nov­els, short sto­ries and trav­el­ogues about do­mes­tic life in Trinidad.

He re­called An­tho­ny’s first nov­el, The Games Were Com­ing, was pub­lished in 1963 and since then he has con­tin­ued with short col­lec­tions as, Crick­et in the Road (1973), The Chief­tain´s Car­ni­val and Oth­er Stoties (1993) which were based on sig­nif­i­cant events in the coun­try´s his­to­ry.


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