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Friday, 18 July 2025

Caribbean History Archives crosses 2 million page views

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  Two years after Gérard A. Besson's passing on 25 July 2023, Caribbean History Archives, a blog that he created for those interested in...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Pictures of Port of Spain - Then And Now

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In 2024, we republished Paria Publishing's iconic "A Photograph Album of Trinidad At the Turn of the 19th Century" , which fea...

The Practice of Whe-Whe in Trinidad - A Cross-Cultural Exchange

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An Essay by Gérard A. Besson During the colonial era in Trinidad and Tobago, several forms of indigenous behaviour as demonstrated by the Ja...
Thursday, 26 June 2025

Hillside House

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When  the British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago called Gérard Besson in 2015 to find out more about the history of his residence,...
Thursday, 6 February 2025

Remembering Gérard A. Besson's Speech to UWI Graduands 2015

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the awarding of an honorary doctorate of letters to Gérard A. Besson. In 2015, the University of the...
Tuesday, 24 September 2024

Republic Day: The Making of a President

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We dug deep into Paria's Archives and found and interesting publication from January 1977, recapping the beginning of the republican sta...
Monday, 26 August 2024

Trinidad and Tobago's Independence - 'Our Flag' Booklet, 1962

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'Our Flag' is a publication by the newly independent government of Trinidad and Tobago to explain the history of the flag, coat of a...
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