QUERULOUS chatter about the changing of the coat of arms rumbles on. Removing the famous three ships and replacing them with the steelpan divides...
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THE EDITOR: Replacing Columbus’s ships with the steelpan arguably would present for an emblem that is more nationally well-rounded. But does this mean that the other colonial elements, such as the helmet and ship wheel, of the coat of arms will also be replaced? We should not pick and choose the history we want represented. Let the colonial relics, statues, images and the like remain as a reminder of how far we have come since the days of imperialism and exploitation. Of similar import is the call to rename Piarco International Airport the Eric Williams International Airport. “Piarco” is an indigenous word. Trinidad’s airport is the last in the Caribbean, to my knowledge, that is indigenously named. Why are we willing to change the coat of arms from the ships that brought the slavers that tortured and killed our indigenous peoples (before the arrival of the Africans), but we are so ready to change an indigenous name? Doesn’t Dr Williams already have the Eric Williams Financial Complex and the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex? Does he need an airport, too? TRENT ALI via e-mail The post Does Williams need airport also? appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
QUERULOUS chatter about the changing of the coat of arms rumbles on. Removing the famous three ships and replacing them with the steelpan divides...
THE EDITOR: The three ships on our coat of arms symbolise the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Trinidad in 1498. While acknowledging the...
RECENT debates have been taking place concerning the national coat of arms and the proposed removal of the three ships (the Santa Maria, Pinta and...
THE EDITOR: The coat of arms is an official emblem, mark of identification, symbol of the authority of the government of a nation or state. In effect...
MANY FOLKS keen on a revised national coat of arms argue it should be purged of all traces of colonial hegemony. Trying to extract our colonial roots...
FORMER journalist and Independent Senator Sunity Maharaj says constitutional reform is the beginning of a means to begin to anchor a culture of...
“[…] Mr Rushton Paray opined that if we removed the ships from our coat of arms and removed the monuments honouring Christopher Columbus and other...
“[…] Mr Rushton Paray opined that if we removed the ships from our coat of arms and removed the monuments honouring Christopher Columbus and other...
DINESH RAMBALLY AMIDST THE manufactured controversy about the steelpan on the coat of arms, another issue of importance has been neglected: the...
Though the majority of people attending a public consultation on Wednesday agreed colonial relics in public spaces should be removed, tensions flared...