THE EDITOR: The three ships on our coat of arms symbolise the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Trinidad in 1498. While acknowledging the...
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“[…] Mr Rushton Paray opined that if we removed the ships from our coat of arms and removed the monuments honouring Christopher Columbus and other notorious colonial-era characters, we run the risk of being afflicted with ‘historical amnesia’. “This is a very fallacious argument… Not only Christians but many other persons are quite familiar with …
THE EDITOR: The three ships on our coat of arms symbolise the arrival of Christopher Columbus in Trinidad in 1498. While acknowledging the...
THE EDITOR: After listening to the peremptory declaration by the Prime Minister that this country’s coat of arms would be changed, I am compelled...
THE EDITOR: After listening to the peremptory declaration by the Prime Minister that this country’s coat of arms would be changed, I am compelled...
In a small auditorium in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Christopher Columbus and other colonial-era figures came under scrutiny recently in a...
QUERULOUS chatter about the changing of the coat of arms rumbles on. Removing the famous three ships and replacing them with the steelpan divides...
FORMER journalist and Independent Senator Sunity Maharaj says constitutional reform is the beginning of a means to begin to anchor a culture of...
THE EDITOR: I welcome the national conversation on the removal of the symbols of colonialism, inclusive of the three ships from the coat of arms and...
THE EDITOR: I welcome the national conversation on the removal of the symbols of colonialism, inclusive of the three ships from the coat of arms and...
TERRENCE HONORÉ AS WE seek to remove some of the ruinous remnants of our colonial past, we must be careful not to lose track of the realities that...
THE EDITOR: As the discussion continues about removing three ships and placing the steelpan on the national coat of arms, one has to ask: Was...