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Music by Language is an innovative music textbook authored by Ian Ramdhan, an experienced music teacher. This comprehensive guide is designed to teach students how to play the piano through an approachable and easy-to-learn method.
Working in the cane fields, 15 year old Tar dreams of a better life beyond the shores
of Trinidad. Hs goal of leaving the country for America or England is mainly driven by Uncle Sundar, an elder in the village who took him to work in the cane fields when he dropped out of school.
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Set in the late 1970's, Uncle Sundar constantly tells the teenager that a better life awaits him abroad. Tar begins to believe this when a conflict between the government and sugar workers leads him and Uncle Sundar to losing their jobs.
Inside The Skep A History of Grenada Co-operative Bank Limited, 1932-2017 discusses the first eighty-five years of the history of the rise, growth and development of Grenada Co-operative Bank Limited, from a “savings and loan” bank, with Barclays Bank D.C.O. as its “sponsor” and clearing-house in 1932, to a professional, stand-alone, fully fledged commercial bank in 2017. It was established by twelve members of Grenada’s foremost anti-colonial intelligentsia, themselves descendants of the formerly enslaved, and who, as a group, did not possess much experience in commercial banking. Established on the cusp of the centenary of the Emancipation of the enslaved Africans in Britain’s Caribbean Empire, with a view to provide financial services, in the first instance, to the descendants of the formerly enslaved, the bank has become an influential member of the economic and financial system of Grenada and the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. This is the first academic study of one of the oldest and largest indigenous commercial banks in the Anglophone Caribbean, and should be of interest to both students of the history of Caribbean banking, as well as the general reading public.
A Place to Call Home tells the compelling story of Sookoo, a beggar from the Dalit caste in Bihar, India, who leaves his homeland to work as an indentured labourer on the sugar cane plantations of Trinidad. In 1884, while the Indian labourers were preparing to celebrate Hosay—a traditional religious observance—the British colonial authorities imposed strict regulations. These rules forbade them from carrying their tadjahs into San Fernando and immersing them in the waters at the wharf, a deeply significant ritual.
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The restrictions sparked growing unrest among the labourers. Tensions escalated and ultimately culminated in the Hosay Riots at Mon Repos, San Fernando. The confrontation turned deadly when British troops opened fire on the crowd. Many labourers were killed, and even more were injured, marking a tragic chapter in Trinidad’s colonial history.