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The Cocorite Leprosarium —Part I
Few people are aware that within the great dystopia that is the Ministry of Health, there is a small department known as the Hansen’s Disease Control Unit which is dedicated to monitoring the presence...
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Molokai of the Caribbean
On December 29, 1921, acting Governor of T&T, T A V Best, proclaimed Chapter 8 of Ordinance 42 before the Legislative Council in the Red House. The idyllic holiday homes and simple farmer-fisherman...
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The life of a leper
In 1927, Archbishop John Pius Dowling arrived at the newly-commissioned leprosarium on Chacachacare to bless and consecrate the chapel and convent of the Dominican Sisters. It was not altogether a...
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The End of it all
By the 1930s, hope had dawned somewhat for the lepers of Chacachacare. New treatments were being used in an attempt to force their disease into remission, but the painful injections of the chemicals...
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Trinidad coffee: highly aromatic and delectable
Coffee may have been first cultivated by the early Spanish settlers who in the 17th century planted cacao in the fertile Maracas Valley of the Northern Range. Coffee, like cocoa, grew well in the cool...
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War and whale oil
To most of us, Gaspar Grande or Gasparee Island is a quiet place occupied seasonally by holiday homeowners or renters. This minute limestone rock just off the northwestern peninsula is far richer in...
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Island days and a war
In the latter half of the 19th century, Gaspar Grande or Gasparee Island was in a slump. Aside from a small settlement of fishermen at the defunct whaling station at Pointe Baleine, there was little or...
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Fort San Andres
Puerta de los Hispanoles (Port-of-Spain) was initially founded towards the end of the 16th century when the Spaniards finally established a permanent settlement at San Jose de Oruna (St Joseph) in...
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The St Andrew’s Anglican Church
Though the British wrested Trinidad from Spain in 1797, it was many years before the Church of England gained a footing in the island since the French-speaking, highly cosmopolitan population was...
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The milk sellers of Port-of-Spain
It was primarily the labour needs of the sugar industry, particularly those of the extremely powerful William Hardin Burnley of Orange Grove Estate that provided the impetus for the importation of...
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The Police Headquarters
The headquarters of the T&T Police Service is one of the most imposing buildings in the capital. Located on St Vincent Street, it became a permanent home for the Trinidad Constabulary (forerunner...
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The Sailors and Sailors Club
All through the grim years of the Great War or World War I (1914-18) T&T showed its commitment to the British metropole in the enlistment of scores of men for service in Europe. These troops were...
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Fyzabad’s about-face —Part 1
Archaeological evidence suggests that in the area known as Perriman Corner, Delhi Road, Fyzabad, a settlement of Amerindian peoples existed as far back as 350 AD. The coming of Europeans in the 16th...
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Fyzabad's Oil Boom —Part II
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 coincided with the birth of the oil age in Fyzabad. The production coming out of the new wells at Forest Reserve exceeded all expectations. One particular well...
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Old and new Fyzabad mix—Part III
He came to Fyzabad in 1921 along with hundreds of his countrymen from Grenada to work in the expanding oilfields, and the name of Tubal Uriah ‘Buzz’ Butler will always be associated with that town. In...
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Alex Duckham’s search
Car guys in Trinbago of the 1950s and 1960s would remember a greenish motor oil of excellent quality called Duckham’s which at the time was second only to Castrol in the world as a manufacturer of this...
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The Rise and Fall
Tabaquite, a sleepy cocoa belt village, in the early 1900s was to have a unique place in Trinidad’s oil history as well as British military history. A report forwarded to British industrialist...
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Hunger and Oppression
Steaming callaloo with crab claws poking from the tureen, a rich oil-down with plenty of coconut milk, slippery ochro rice and sweet toolum are a part of the local food culture that every schoolchild...
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It would be hard for a continental dweller to understand that in an island as small as Tobago, there could be great diversity and isolated communities though the extent of the place is only 116 square...
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Like a Wild West town
Last week we looked at how Sangre Grande emerged from the forests to become a major cocoa trading centre. It was a rip-roaring environment and was described in 1910 as follows: “I strolled about Cunape...
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