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Monday, 2 September 2013
Gerard Besson speaking on Independence
Paria Publishing's founder and Chairman Gerard Besson was interviewed by Vernon Ramesar on IETV to discuss Independence. Click here to see the interview!
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Gerard Besson's Articles in FIRST Magazine (featured here with kind permission of FIRST Magazine)
History of the Oil Industry in Trinidad and Tobago Part 1 (2009)
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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Trinidad economy 1950s. Cocoa Copra
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Trinidad economy. Stollmeyer
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Uriah "Buzz" Butler
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Uriah Butler
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Uriah Buzz Butler
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V.S. Naipaul
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vegetables in trinidad
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Vellum Book
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Victor Hugues
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Victorian era
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Vodou
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Voudoun
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W.S. Robertson
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Wallerfield
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water riots
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West Indian Immigration
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William Booth
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William Eccles
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William Gordon Gordon
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William Wilberforce
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Windmills of Tobago
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Women in Trinidad
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Woodford Square
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Woods
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World War I in Trinidad
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yellow fever
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Gerard A. Besson - Caribbean Historian
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago
Archivist, Artist, Curator, Folklorist, Historian, Publisher, Researcher, Writer
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