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(Trinidad Express) The daughter of indentured labourers, who survived her husband and six of her seven children, super-centenarian Dharmie Deo passed away on Sunday at the age of 111. Fondly ...
Between 1861 and 1880, 2,474 Indians arrived in St. Vincent. The Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers (Fiji, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) already inscribed on the International ...
When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners looked to India, China, and the Middle East for laborers, bringing to Trinidad thousands more indentured workers. Tobago, seen more as a strategic ...
Labourers were brought ... 1834 - Slavery abolished; indentured workers brought in from India to work on sugar plantations. 1889 - Trinidad and Tobago administratively combined as a single British ...
THE 1860 Indentured Labourers Foundation Verulam ... the executive directors of the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre, Trinidad and Tobago. The conference will be held at the Alpvest Institute ...
For the past 25 years, Mr Deen, 76, a resident of Trinidad and Tobago ... in the Caribbean - a former British colony - as indentured labourers in the 1800s and early 1900s, but lost touch with ...
On May 30, Trinidad and Tobago will be celebrating the occasion of Indian Arrival Day. According to Nalis, Indian Arrival Day commemorates the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers from ...
IN COMMEMORATING the 165th anniversary of the first indentured workers arriving ... imperial colonies like Reunion, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Fiji, South African scholarship ...