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- History of the Oil Industry in Trinidad and Tobago Part 2 (2009)
- History of the Oil Industry in Trinidad and Tobago Part 3 (2009)
- Trinidad's Raj (2009)
- Folklore of Trinidad and Tobago (2012)
- Sidney Knox and the Birth of the Conglomerates (2012)
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- Gerard A. Besson - Caribbean Historian
- Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago
- Archivist, Artist, Curator, Folklorist, Historian, Publisher, Researcher, Writer