August 01, 2021 – Facebook
Today our nation celebrates Emancipation Day, a day that marks the abolition of the vile practice of chattel slavery. It is a day for both celebration of the liberation of enslaved Africans and an opportunity to reflect on, and learn from, the lessons of this dark period in our history.
The enslavement of Africans throughout the Caribbean and the Americas, via the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is perhaps the greatest crime against humanity in the history of mankind.
Though this part of our history is difficult and painful, it is important that younger generations are made aware of the unspeakable horrors of slavery that thousands who were captured and brought to this country were forced to endure.
File photo: Kamla Persad Bissessar.
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OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says government bungling had taken Trinidad and Tobago into the covid19 crisis, but had since presented no plan to get out of it.
She was speaking on Monday in the House of Representatives on a government motion to note the statement by President Paula-Mae Weekes setting out the grounds for a state of emergency (SoE.) After listening to the Honourable Prime Minister, I ve heard nothing new, nothing different, no plans to go forward, she said. The only thing missing today was the Prime Minister did not launch off into an attack: Blame the population, Blame Kamla.
Kamla Persad -Bissessar
THERE was silence on Monday from the Opposition UNC as to whether or not party leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has received a reply to the letter which she wrote last month to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In it she asked India to send TT doses of covid19 vaccines.
Persad-Bissessar could not be reached to find out whether she had received a response.
UNC PRO Kirk Meighoo could not shed any light on the situation, saying, I am unable to say at the moment but I will let you know as soon as I can.
When Newsday contacted the Indian High Commission to find out whether there had been any response from the Indian government, officials there were unable to say whether such a reply had been sent to Persad-Bissessar