ON June 22, 1948, a young and bristling Aldwyn Roberts disembarked the HMT Empire Windrush in Port Tilbury, England following a 22-day journey from Jamaica.
NO wonder many Trinidadians and Tobagonians are seeking to migrate to Canada!
A globally respected survey has just named three Canadian cities among the most liveable in the world.
HOMICIDE, sexual assault, robbery and even terrorist attacks are “commonplace” in Trinidad and Tobago, according to a new international travel report on the Caribbean.
SCORES of Guyanese exiles in Trinidad and Tobago and other countries are returning to their homeland to benefit from one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Before Indian immigrants were introduced, there were brief experiments in recruiting former slaves, in addition to bringing in workers from neighbouring Caribbean islands and from Sierra Leone, the United States, France, Germany, Portugal, and China. For various reasons, that system did not work.