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The jumbie tree
Sunday, July 6, 2014Angelo BissessarsinghSilk cotton tree—oil painting by Rudolph Bissessarsingh 2014.This past week, a giant ceiba of great age toppled on the slopes of Picton in Laventille, causing...
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The changing face of Neal and Massy
Sunday, July 13, 2014Angelo BissessarsinghA very early ad for Neal Engineering’s Chevrolet franchise from 1924.The recent rebranding of the former Neal and Massy Group’s assets to a brash new generic...
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The mosques of Port-of-Spain
Sunday, July 27, 2014Angelo BissessarsinghThe Queen Street Masjid in the 1950s. Trinidad has many fine examples of Islamic architecture which have reflected the status, dignity and size of the Muslim...
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Panchoo Campbell The last living former slave
Sunday, August 3, 2014Angelo BissessarsinghLEFT: This 1930 photo shows an ancient waterwheel in Speyside which provided power for a cane mill in William “Panchoo” Campbell’s lifetime. RIGHT: William...
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Cinemas of T&T
Sunday, August 10, 2014Angelo BissessarsinghNo popcorn until later years, but there was a peanut vendor outside most Trinidad cinemas before showtime (1934 photo).Recently I read a deeply saddening...
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The age of coal in Trinidad
Angelo BissessarsinghThe heap of coal on South Quay around 1910.Port-of-Spain has one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
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The Greyfriars story Death of a church Part 2
Angelo BissessarsinghIn last week’s column we looked at the events surrounding the arrival of the Scottish Presbyterian missionary, the Rev Alexander Kennedy, in Trinidad in 1836 and ended at his...
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The Greyfriars story Death of a church Part 1
Angelo BissessarsinghOver the past week, the Trinidad Guardian reported on the developing tragedy of the sale and dubious future of the historic Greyfriars Scots Presbyterian Church on Frederick...
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Death of a church—Part 4 - An appeal to save Greyfriars
Angelo BissessarsinghPossibly now in its last days, Greyfriars looms majestic in the afternoon sunlight. PHOTOS: EDISON BOODOOSINGHThis is the final chapter in the four-part series which I commenced a...
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Federation of the West Indies
Probably because it happened nearly 60 years ago and lasted for only a short time, many cannot now remember when T&T, for one brief interlude, lost is status as a semi-autonomous colony of Britain...
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The Hotel Guiria tragedy
In the late 19th century, severe civil unrest in Venezuela saw an influx of thousands of Venezuelans to Trinidad. Now, this was not new, since from at least the 1840s peons known as the “cocoa panyols”...
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The cholera epidemic of 1854: Part 2: Frightening similarities to the threat...
Last week, we began our look at the cholera epidemic of 1854 which bears frightening similarities to the threat of Ebola today. Early in the epidemic, the borough council mandated that the graves of...
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Memorial Park—Monument to the brave
One of the most solemn reminders of the role T&T played in the horrors of two World Wars is the cenotaph at Memorial Park. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War in...
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THE ECCLES TRAGEDY OF WORLD WAR I
Among the dozens of T&T men who registered to fight in Europe during World War I (1914-18), there are many who never returned to their homeland. Their stories were quickly forgotten and their names...
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The glamour of shopping in PoS
For a very long time, Port-of-Spain has been the shopping capital of the Eastern Caribbean. Its constant throng of imports and exports combined with a healthy private sector interest, contributed to...
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Afro-Trinidadians before Emancipation
Christmas has become commercialised to the point where it has lost some of its special savour. The rampant consumerism that now begins as early as September in some stores, has robbed the season of its...
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The Christmas treat
When indentured labour began entering Trinidad from India in 1845, the overwhelming majority of these people were Hindus with a small number of Muslims. Christmas was an unknown concept to them of...
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PLANTATION CHRISTMAS—PART III Tobago celebrates with food, drinks
One of the most poignant memories of a Tobago Christmas I have ever read was written by the tragic poet, Eric M Roach (1915-74) who penned a piece for a sort of anthology of Trinbago, introduced by...
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Three languages, one message
When the Trinidad Guardian commenced publication in 1917, there were occasions when the advertisements reflected the very diverse nature of society. Notices for meetings of the several Chinese...
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Destroying the memory of the dead
As some of you may have noticed by now, I have a fascination with cemeteries. That interest has manifested itself in my book, Walking with the Ancestors—The Historic Cemeteries of Trinidad, which was...
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