mapoui

1991....2001.

15 years the place Degenerate ......

Trinidad used to be peaceful like TORONTO :

Steel Pan contest and Caribana !!

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15 years the place Degenerate ......

Trinidad used to be peaceful like TORONTO :

Steel Pan contest and Caribana !!
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no man.  deh was always boilin'  Trinidad is home you know..so I know the place.

Trinidad was always a terrible place...RACIST TO A FAULT, REALLY RACIST, FULLY RACIST, COMPREHENSIVELY RACIST.

AND CLASS CONSCIOUS SAME WAY..POISONOUSLY CLASS CONSCIOUS.

rapaciously exploitative of ordinary Trinidadians...heavy unemployment..no chance for youth..no nutten.  police dancing on the bodies of black youth..always was the case.

leh mih give you a chronology:

1965..3 years after independence in 1962 labour war, emergency state and Industrial Stabilization ACT...Williams police state legislation to shut workers down.

1968 - 70...almost total collapse as the people took to the streets, shut down the country..Black Power.  Army mutiny, state of emergency..not lifted till 1970

1971 political crisis. opposition boycott elections..williams elected unopposed.  then luck!  fus' oil boom.

1980's aftah williams dead, Chambers elected and get tossed by NAR..Robinson PM..Abubakr and the muslims and political coup..crisis..state of emergency.  same way in early nineties....then Panday, Manning again and Kamla and Rowley and is total lawlessness.

Police run amok on the people..white police chiefs herding nig nogs all over.  second oil boom and money like peas but none fuh the people.  the people start to loose it.  and here we are

you doh know Trinidad man.  Trinidad was never peaceful as you make  it out to be.  you jess doh know di'ze all

Trinidad was always a place that sweated prejudice out of its social pores.  wat!!!!! : : :  you tink all this ting bubble up overnight  which wud be wat ::confused::

15 years is in social time, overnight. not possible!

look at this ketchim.  Trinidad 1937..Charlie King

http://www.newsday.co.tt/commentary/0,102395.html

Quote:At sunrise on Saturday June 19, 1937, Corporal Charlie King left his home in Duke Street, Port-of-Spain and journeyed to Fyzabad. His mission was to bring Tubal Uriah Buz Butler back to the City in handcuffs. He wanted to be acclaimed a hero by arresting the hero of the moment. In the pursuit of his goal, he misunderstood the mood of the mob. Before sunset, Charlie King was drenched with kerosene and burnt alive in the presence of hundreds.

The story goes that King and three other policemen — all in mufti — were at a street in Fyzabad. On the other side, he saw Butler walking with five of his followers. King shouted out to Butler, “Ahaeyeh, Butler! I come for you, boy! You are my fish!”

An annoyed Butler warned him, “Charlie, the day you put your hands on my anointed body, Almighty God will strike you with a thunderbolt and you will burn to ashes.” With that, Butler and his group continued to the junction where they usually held meetings. While following them, King told his cohorts, “Butler is a lunatic if ever I saw one. But I am telling you this, fellas, I, Charlie King, will take that mad man to Port-of-Spain in handcuffs, if it is the last thing I do.”

When Butler was delivering a blood and thunder speech, Major Power arrived on the scene — much to the discontent of the agitated crowd. He asked Lance Corporal Price to read the warrant for the arrest of Butler but, after reading only a few lines, Price was so perturbed that he stumbled and stammered causing the Major to take the warrant from him and give it to Sargeant Belfon to read.

Quote:After the warrant was read, Major Power commanded, “Take him away!” Two policemen immediately grabbed Butler’s arms and, as they were about to hustle him off, Butler in a stentorian voice, shouted, “My people are you going to let them take me away?” In unison, the crowd screamed, “Noooo!”

Instantly, bedlam broke loose. Bottles and stones were showered on the policemen who were cuffed and kicked and beaten with sticks. Major Power drew his guns and fired shots in the air. The frightening noise of gunshots caused pandemonium and people began to bawl hysterically and run wildly all over the place.

Policemen ran for their lives but Charlie King kept his gaze fixed on Butler. He followed the Chief’s every move and as he was about to arrest him, King was recognised, and the frenzied mob turned on him with vengeance. He was overwhelmed and bolted down the street into a shop. The raging crowd cornered him and his only chance was to jump through a window.

The front of the shop was street level but the back was about 20 to 24-ft from the ground. The crowd dashed round into the yard and saw King holding on to his broken legs and groaning in pain. He cried, “O God! Help me!” A man said, “You live like a devil, now you asking God to help you”. Then he kicked him and right away King’s body became the football of the mob in a free for all. A man whacked him on the head with a piece of wood. He collapsed completely and his body was a bloody mess on the dusty ground. Everybody thought he was dead but he cried, “O God, water! I dying”.

A woman shouted, “Leh we give him pitch oil to drink.” A man dashed into the shop and came back with a tin of kerosene which he threw all over King’s body. Another woman shouted, “He is a manicou. Leh we bun him.” Matches were lighted and thrown on Charlie King and he was burnt to death.

One of the eye witnesses told me, “It was horrible. The sight of Charlie King being burnt alive and the smell of burning flesh is something I have never forgotten.”

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150619/...e-vs-roget

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Duke storms Labour Day march

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BACCHANAL: Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke is forcibly removed by Guard and Emergency Branch (GEB) police officers during Labour Day celebrations at Charlie King Junction, Fyzabad. The Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) and the National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) clashed yesterday.
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A near riot erupted at the historic Charlie King Junction in Fyzabad yesterday as the National Trade Union Centre (Natuc) made its presence known at the annual Labour Day celebrations.

Leading thousands of members, Natuc's acting president and Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke marched into activities of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM).

JTUM members, led by Ancel Roget, marched from Avocat Junction to Charlie King Junction.

The trade unions included the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU), Communication Workers Union (CWU), Steel Workers Uni­on, Bankers Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU), Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) and Postal Wor­kers Association, among others.
Watch: TV6's Jovan Ravello reports on PSA President Watson Duke removal

They were followed by members of the People's National Movement (PNM), chairman Franklin Khan and several candidates in the 2015 general election.

But as trade union leaders started addressing workers, Duke marched into the gathering, stopping directly in front of the stage. His members sounded horns and chanted to signal their arrival.

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Introduction | The Labour Movement Timeline | Trade Unions | Significant People | Bibliography

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ButlerLabour Day celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago was declared an annual national holiday in 1973. Celebrated on June 19th, it is the anniversary of the day of the Butler Oilfield Riots which took place in 1937. Prior to this time there were ongoing tensions between workers and employers in many sectors of society. These were characterized by situations of worker abuse, underpayment for labour, racism, economic depression and a considerable fall in the living standards of the working class.

Between 1934 and 1937 workers became more influenced by a need for change resulting in strikes and riots on the sugar plantations and in the oil fields and in September 1937, the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) also became the first registered trade union in the country representing the rights of those in the petroleum industry. This social unrest then extended throughout the Caribbean and gave rise to several prominent labour leaders in Trinidad and Tobago such as Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler, Captain Andrew Arthur Cipriani, George Weekes, Albert Maria Gomes, Adrian Cola Rienzi, Elma Francois, and C.L.R James.

During a labour dispute on the Port-of-Spain wharves in November 1919, Captain Andrew Arthur Cipriani called on the workers to withhold their labour, and this resulted in their first important industrial strike in Trinidad.

George Weekes, another well known Trade Unionist, possessed a powerful political leadership style which moved people toward a confidence to stand for what was just and right. He gave them a vision that planted seeds of liberation to move beyond salaries and working conditions – along the road of self, world view, economics and government.

Albert Maria Gomes became a City Councilor and Legislator who fought for social and political justice for the people of Trinidad. He was also a supporter of the literary and visual arts; in 1931 he founded a magazine “The Beacon” which provided a forum for well known figures such as C.L.R. James and which led to the recognition of excellent literary works in later years from writers such as Earl Lovelace, Merle Hodge and many others from Trinidad and Tobago.

Adrian Cola Rienzi served as the mayor of San Fernando in November 1939 and administered the borough for three consecutive terms, until November 1942. He was a member of the franchise committee which was appointed in 1941, and strongly advocated universal adult suffrage.

St. Vincent born Elma Francois became a founding member of the National Unemployed Movement and its more radical successor, the Negro Welfare, Cultural and Social Association, to which she devoted the rest of her life.

Regarded as one of the most celebrated thinkers of Trinidad and Tobago, and the whole Commonwealth Caribbean, C.L.R James was against colonialism and against racial prejudice in all its forms and he began to formulate his thoughts on the just and classless society. Apart from his contributions to politics, his passion for poetry and literature reward him with the nation’s highest decoration, the Trinity Cross.

Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler, a Grenadian immigrant who worked in the oilfield, was instrumental in the development of the labour union movement which emphasized the importance of collective unionism in treating worker discontent and the abuses they faced by their employers. Butler was awarded the nation’s highest honor, the Trinity Cross, and the country’s main highway has been re-named in his honor. Today, a statue of Butler stands at the Fyzabad junction also known as the Charlie King Junction, the place where police attempted to arrest him on June 19th, the day of the historic riots 1937.

adrian cola Rienzi

Boysie Singh

Dr Rat

Bhadase Sagan Maraj

Albert Gomes

Captain Andrew Cipriani

Uriah Buzz Butler

J J Thomas back in the late ninetenth century..a writer

Henry Sylvester Williams  major intellect and pan affricanist

Stephen Maraj

Canboulay, Carnival and Sparrow...Spoiler, Melody and Small Island Pride...King fighter, the Mighty Duke... and revolutionary carnival led by Sparrow.  Kai'so breakthrough: Indian Dougla wins the Kai'so crown...immediately upon which fact Sparrow composed and sang 'Robbery with V'

Rudranath Capildeo and Williams institutionalizing of ethnic based politics in Trinidad and Tobago...divide and rule.  steel band clashes and other riots.......

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all ah allyuh get fooled by the land of the calypso and humming bird tourist logo phantasy.  the Trinidad I know has always been at war internally, with itself... and the region too.  now the war break right through and out in the open fuh all to see.  but it was always there.[/size]

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hmmm, whats the old saying... you can take a man out of the country but can't take the country out of him?  or something like that!  ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: [/size]

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