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Kumina practitioners during a ceremony.

"$2.2m German loan: Finance Minister David Coore puts his signature on the line for Jamaica at Vale Royal yesterday, when the Jamaica Development Bank was assured of a $2.2-million load from the Federal Republic of Germany. Parliamentary Secretary…

Marcus Garvey (right), with George O. Marke (left) and Prince Kojo Tovalou - Houenon of Dahomey in Harlem, New York, 1924.

"Police Commissioner Basil Robinson (centre) presenting the Baton of Honour to Assistant Superintendent L.G. Campbell who recently completed a twenty-week Police Officers' General Course at the Metropolitan Police Training School, Hendon, London. Mr.…

Photograph of an organiser with the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), L.W. Rose.

The Spirit of Trinidad - folklore series No. 2. La Diablesse, legendary Trinidad character

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Extract from Trinidad Sunday Guardian, August 4, 1957

An artist's impression of the activities involved in the manual production of sugar using an outdoor mill operated by oxen. The slaves are putting the sugarcane into the mill, the juice then goes into the cauldrons at the side to be boiled. Men can…

" 'All we want is justice' - from left Eli Smith, Barry Anderson, and Laban Campbell."

"Labour and Employment Minister Ernest Peart addressing the Master Printers' Association at a dinner at Terra Nova Hotel on Saturday night. Others from left are Industry, Commerce and Tourism Ministry Undersecretary P.A. Mullings, Master Printers'…

"Labour in unity: Labour Minister William "Vunnie" Isaacs greeting NWU acting general secretary V. Bancroft Edwards at the union's East Street offices Friday morning. At centre is NWU assistant Island Supervisor Caswell Rodney. Mr. Isaacs' visit was…