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maj. tom wrote:Corbeaux is french for crow, the common black raven. I have no idea of its trini-etymology for turkey vulture. Crapaud is french for toad.
maj. tom wrote:Anyway, I found a little clip of Sir David Attenborough and the turkey vulture or "cobo" while he was in Trinidad at some point making the BBC show "Life of Birds: Meat Eaters"
If you don't know who Sir David Attenborough is then you should just skip this post and return to your cereal bowl.
On 30 May 1498, Columbus left with six ships from Sanlúcar, Spain, for his third trip to the New World. Three of the ships headed directly for Hispaniola with much-needed suplies, while Columbus took the other three in an exploration of what might lie to the south of the Caribbean islands he had already visited, including a hope-for passage to continental Asia.[59]
Third voyageColumbus led his fleet to the Portuguese island of Porto Santo, his wife's native land. He then sailed to Madeira and spent some time there with the Portuguese captain João Gonçalves da Camara, before sailing to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde. As he crossed the Atlantic, Columbus discovered that the angle between North as indicated by a magnetic compass and North as measured by the position of the pole star changed with his position (a phenomenon now known as "compass variation"). He would later use his previous measurements of the compass variation to adjust his reckoning.[2]
After being becalmed for several days in the doldrums of the mid-Atlantic, Columbus's fleet regained its wind and, dangerously low on water, turned north in the direction of Dominica, which Columbus had visited in his previous voyage. The ships landed on the southern coast of the island of Trinidad on 31 July. After resupplying with food and water, from 4 to 12 August Columbus explored the Gulf of Paria, which separates Trinidad from what is now Venezuela, near the delta of the Orinoco River. He then touched the mainland of South America at the Paria Peninsula.
Columbus correctly interpreted the enormous quantity of fresh water that the Orinoco delivered into the Atlantic Ocean as evidence that he had reached a continental landmass. As he sailed the Gulf of Paria, he observed the diurnal rotation of the pole star in the sky, which he erroneously interpreted as evidence that the Earth was not perfectly spherical, but rather bulged out like a pear around the new-found continent.[2] He also speculated that the new continent might be the location of the biblical Garden of Eden. He then sailed to the islands of Chacachacare and Margarita. He sighted Tobago (which he named "Bella Forma") and Grenada (which he named "Concepción").
Paolo Kernahan The family that owned Mc Leod House held onto it for as long as they could. The fact that it remained standing until 2012 says something in itself. When we shot the house in 2010 for our TV show The Road Less Travelled, the entire back of the house had already collapsed and the front had begun to deteriorate. The owners were hoping that our show would have helped raise interest in preserving the house. They did the best they could but sadly they just did not have the money to restore the structure and to maintain it.
Race enters Trini politics
MARION O'CALLAGHAN Monday, August 27 2012
In 1910 the British Government appointed the Sanderson Committee. It was to consider the general question of emigration from India to the Crown Colonies and “…in particular Colonies in which immigration may be most usefully encouraged.”
The Sanderson Committee was not primarily concerned with Indians as indentured labour. It was concerned with Indians as settlers. As early as 1875, the Marquess of Salisbury, then Secretary of State for India, suggested a settler-colonisation scheme of the tropical dominions to Queen Victoria. It was to be of Indians and was to be done with the help of the government of India. India refused.
Before the Sanderson Committee Alfred Richards, representing the Working Men’s Association, spoke of falling wages, unemployment and Indian impoverishment and vagrancy. The association was therefore against both settlers and the continuation of indentured labour. For it was the Presbyterian Missionary to the Indians, the Rev. John Morton as was, for Indians, Fitzpatrick. He also argued for Indian representation on the Legislative Council in addition to the Protector of indentured labour. The Sanderson Report agreed. It is the beginning of the Indian demand for separate communal representation. No other group demands this, nor is given this.
The Sanderson Committee is not behind us. The commemoration of Indian Arrival Day is based on Indian opposition to the ending of indentured labour and Indian agreement with Trinidad as a place of Indian settlement: it is therefore “Arrival” which is marked every year.
The Wood Commission
The Wood Commission visited the Caribbean from December 1921 to February 1922. The Trinidad Crown Colony Legislative Council had no elected members. The Commission found that “… there was a demand for a measure of electoral representation.” The Commission listened to the representation of the Legislative Reform Committee. This represented the “Middle Class and the Peasants”. They argued that “East Indian and Creole” formed one community with differences only in domestic life. They warned against any communal representation. This, they argued, would create friction. The East Indian National Congress advocated communal representation of Indians as one group on the grounds that otherwise they risked being outvoted.
The Chamber of Commerce, the Agricultural Society (ie the Planters) and a Deputation of East Indians argued for the maintenance of the then system of Nominated Members. In addition, the Deputation of East Indians argued that “the complete substitution of nomination might… deprive them of the only representative whom they had on the Council.” East Indians, they argued, “were not in a position to return members under a representative system.”
In their report, the Commission remarked with regard to the maintenance of Crown Colony Government with only nominated members, that it was impossible to withhold from Trinidad what the Crown was giving to Grenada. They also pronounced against any form of communal representation. “As regards communal representation,” they wrote, “it would accentuate and perpetuate differences.”
Unity
This question of block Indian voting would haunt Trinidad and Tobago until today. It should be noted that there was nevertheless worker collaboration after the First World War. Sugar workers joined the strikes called by the Working Men’s Association in 1919 and downed tools with Port- of-Spain dockers (dear to Alfred Richards) and City Council scavengers. Carpenters in Scarborough went on strike in sympathy with sugar workers when an Indian was bludgeoned to death by an English overseer.
By 1934 the Working Men’s Association, under Cipriani, had morphed into the Trinidad Labour party and Roodal had revived the Southern Branch of the Working Men’s Association. Cola Rienzi succeeded Cipriani as the country’s major Trade Union leader. He also became President of the San Fernando branch of the Working Men’s Association.
1946 and Race
What then happened? In the mid-1930’s, Indian born Ranjit Kumar came to Trinidad and introduced the Indian film Bala Joban. John La Guerre, writing a preface for a collection of the speeches of Bhadase Sagan Maharaj (2001) would say of Ranjit Kumar: “When Ranjit Kumar burst on the scene and introduced Bala Joban… he aroused a consciousness of racial and cultural identity that struck responsive chords throughout the colony.”
In 1940 Ranjit Kumar established the Hindu Maha Sabha to “unite Hindus in every country and colony… to safeguard and further their interests.” He became president of the East Indian Congress. As such he warned that with adult suffrage “a small political minority could establish a dictatorship”. He is no democrat. In the first election under Universal Suffrage in 1946, Ranjit Kumar went up as an Independent in Victoria against MacDonald Bailey the choice of a coalition which included the Trade Union Congress. Another candidate was by now famous Indian: Fitzpatrick. Ranjit Kumar campaigned in Hindi. He obtained 13,328 votes to Bailey’s 4,420 and wiped out Fitzpatrick. Patrick Solomon in his autobiography noted this as the first example of race in Trini politics. Many agreed with Solomon. Bhadase Maharaj was on the political scene only in 1952. Eric Williams only in 1955.
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mamoo_pagal wrote:
hope not a repost, trying to find the full thing
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