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Trinidad Cocoa Part II Cocoa Panyols and Cadbury
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, January 12, 2014Hundreds of peons from neighbouring Venezuela came to Trinidad as seasonal workers. An ethnic mixture of Amerindian, African and European, they were known...
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Colonial gems in T&T
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, January 19, 2014Wrightson RoadPhotography captures a moment in time.
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Oil a mixed blessing for Trinidad
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, January 26, 20141913 photo of an early oil well at Guapo believed to be the Stollmeyer well.Oil has been a mixed blessing for Trinidad.
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Trinidad’s first cinema
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, February 2, 2014It was at the Arima Savannah (now the Arima Velodrome) in 1906, that an open-air showing of The Great Train Robbery took place, along with one of the...
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The piano and social status
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, February 9, 2014A piano in a typical middle-class living room in Trinidad during the 1890s.In an era when even the most humble mobile device boasts an MP3 player capable of...
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The power of money
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, February 16, 2014The purchasing power of this blue dollar note when printed in 1939 was significantly more than a blue hundred dollar bill is in 2014.My uncle Julius...
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Coalpot and canaree
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, February 23, 2014The coalpot and canaree were once fixtures of every kitchen, large and small, rich and poor, from at least the 18th century right up until proper gas...
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Minstrels, clown and Carnival of yesteryear
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, March 2, 2014A clown band in Port-of-Spain in the 1920s.Personally, I find the greatest loss to diversity can be felt during Carnival when one compares the mass market...
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Scales and cranes
Angelo BissessarsinghMonday, March 10, 2014Loading cane in the 1950s.In the sugar cane fields of the Naparimas in south Trinidad, the Colonial Company, owners of Usine Ste Madeleine, built the largest...
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San Jose de Oruna Part II: Hard times
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, March 23, 2014The old Spanish Plaza de San Carlos, town square of San Jose de Oruna still exists, though it is now known as George Earle Park.For a tiny village with just...
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San Jose de Oruna Part III Rebellion and Charles Kingsley
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, March 30, 2014St Joseph in the 1880s. Note that the sugarcane fields come almost to the border of the town itself. On the street corner south of First National Park in St...
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Stanleyville’s railway artefacts
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, April 6, 2014The Stanleyville box is the last surviving signal post of the former Trinidad Government Railway. A little over a year ago, a motley crew met to comb the...
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PART 1 The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, April 20, 2014The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the 1880s.In early 2013, His Grace Archbishop Joseph Harris took the momentous decision to close the Cathedral...
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Part II Point Fortin in a state of prosperity
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, May 11, 2014Downtown Point Fortin in the late 1950s.In 1904 Point Fortin and Guapo were wildernesses.
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Debe in History
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, May 18, 2014The now-thriving Debe stretch is a far cry from its original sleepy appearance in this 1920s photo.South of San Fernando, in a belt of rolling country bordering...
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Of cane and mist Commemorating 169 years of arrival
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, May 25, 2014In this 1940s shot, a young boy strips a piece of cane with his teeth.In 2009 I was invited to be part of a project by my friend David Maharaj which was...
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At Royal Victoria Institute Rude neglect
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, June 8, 2014The controversy which surrounded the investigation into the theft of two Cazabon paintings from the National Museum last year only served to highlight the...
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The Tattoo gangs of Trinidad’s oilfields
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, June 15, 2014A very early crawler tractor being used to move oilfield machinery near Fyzabad in the 1920s. The pioneering days of the Trinidadian oil industry of the early...
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Tortuga RC Church Return to glory days
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, June 22, 2014Tortuga RC Church at dusk showing the illuminated rose window. Photos: Edison BoodoosinghPerched on top of a windy ridge with some of the most awesome views of...
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Search for black gold squashes agriculture ...Agro-fairs were lively displays...
Angelo BissessarsinghSunday, June 29, 2014A display of rum in bottles and casks at the Princes Building around 1910.People tend to forget that just under a century ago, we were an agrarian economy. The...
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