JTJerome Teelucksingh

1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Dr Jerome Teelucksingh

   Respect the Republic (opens the original)

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   Last week I fo­cused on for­mer pres­i­dent Noor Has­sanali. Re­cent ca­su­al dis­cus­sions with per­sons from all walks of life made me re­alise that there is a lack of knowl­edge and ap­pre­ci­a­tion of Re­pub­lic Day. It is un­for­tu­nate that some are un­aware of the dif­fer­ence be­tween In­de­pen­dence and re­pub­li­can­ism, whilst oth­ers are un­fa­mil­iar with the tran­si­tion from a monar­chi­cal sys­tem of gov­ern­ment to re­pub­li­can sta­tus. Where did this call for change orig­i­nat

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2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Dr Jerome Teelucksingh

   Ask Again: You never know who needs to talk (opens the original)

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   World Sui­cide Pre­ven­tion Day is ob­served an­nu­al­ly on Sep­tem­ber 10. The in­ter­na­tion­al theme for 2024 to 2026 is “Chang­ing the Nar­ra­tive on Sui­cide.” It seems mun­dane to ask the ques­tion: “How are you?” but if your gut tells you some­thing is wrong, ask again. Try this in­stead: “You haven’t seemed like your­self late­ly. I’m wor­ried about you. How are you re­al­ly do­ing?” The World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion es­ti­mates that 727,000 peo­ple died by sui­cide in 2021, and it was t

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3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Dr Jerome Teelucksingh

   Massa’s big children (opens the original)

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   In May 1961, Dr Er­ic Williams, Pre­mier of T&T, in a lec­ture at Queen’s Hall in Port-of-Spain, said “The world is tired of our po­lit­i­cal clown­ing with in­de­pen­dence, so even that is be­com­ing tire­some.” When we re­flect on the past 64 years, it ap­pears that our na­tion is still ‘po­lit­i­cal clown­ing’. Dur­ing the 1990s and ear­ly 21st cen­tu­ry, there have been ob­vi­ous signs that our na­tion has not ma­tured. In the re­cent past, our coun­try had Calder Hart, a Cana­di­an, as the

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4. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Dr Jerome Teelucksingh

   Albert Gomes - Big politician & patriot (opens the original)

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   “…Al­bert Gomes fad­ed from na­tion­al con­scious­ness… His suc­cess­es are for­got­ten…” This analy­sis by Je­re­my Tay­lor, in 2004 in Caribbean Beat, ac­cu­rate­ly de­picts the man­ner in which a fight­er for the voice­less and dis­pos­sessed has been rel­e­gat­ed to the dust­bin of Caribbean his­to­ry. We are un­aware of the mon­u­men­tal con­tri­bu­tions of Gomes, who was heavy­set and had po­lit­i­cal clout. He was born in Bel­mont in 1911 and died in Eng­land in 1978. He was of Por­tugues

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5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Dr Jerome Teelucksingh

   The blackness of freedom (opens the original)

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   Aware­ness of the hor­ri­ble con­di­tions of Caribbean slav­ery and the con­stant strug­gle for free­dom among en­slaved peo­ple has been part of Eman­ci­pa­tion Day ob­ser­vances. How did the ex-slaves re­spond to their new­found free­dom? Who com­prised this op­pressed group? They be­longed to a di­verse group and al­so fol­lowed dif­fer­ent re­li­gions. Few per­sons are aware that not all Africans or those of African de­scent were en­slaved be­fore 1834. Dur­ing 1839–1849, an es­ti­mat­ed 10,

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