Heritage site for the Merikins and mapoui in T&T

Heritage site for the Merikins
By Clint Chan Tack Wednesday, November 30 2016

GOVERNMENT is actively considering the establishment of a heritage site in South Trinidad for this country’s Merikin community.

This was disclosed by Community Development, Culture and the Arts Minister, Dr Nyan Gadbsy Dolly, as she deputised for Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley at the National Merikin Community Award and Recognition Ceremony at the Central Bank Auditorium in Port-of-Spain last Thursday night.

The Merikins were Af rican-American refugees of the War of 1812, freed black slaves who fought for the British against the USA in the Corps of Colonial Marines and then, after post-war service in Bermuda, were established as a community in the south of Trinidad in 1815 to 16. “Today the Merikin community is calling on the Government to grant them legal rights to land which they have been occupying for generations,” Gadsby-Dolly told her audience. She then revealed, “ The Prime Minister of TT has asked me to assure you that the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government is already actively examining this long outstanding request with a view to designating the approximately 6,608 acres of land already earmarked in South Trinidad as a heritage site.” The audience applauded and cheered loudly in response.

Gadsby-Dolly further disclosed that in recognition of the Merikins celebrations and in keeping with Government’s thrust, “to document the history of TT for posterity,” the Prime Minister has requested Public Administration and Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie to collaborate with the Merikin community with the aim of establishing a programme of nationwide education on the history of the Merikins and their overall contribution to national development.

As she highlighted some aspects of the Merikins’ history, Gadsby-Dolly observed that the freeing of these African American slaves could be regarded as an, “isolated and unplanned forerunner to the abolition of slavery.”

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is mapoui a merkin

Nah he sounds like a dougla , all mixed up  an angry at the world.

mixed up like you eh Alien/Chin/Socafighter..and all the rest of you one :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

look at wat you always involve in...bringing to highlight mostly the worst of history......lookin' to regulrize it.

I doh give and eff about Merikin.  they were  for and apparently still with the British.  how did and does that help nig nogs everywhere ::confused::

how does it hurt them ::confused::

now there you go!  but you doh arks dat kinda question do you?

I nevah see you arks a positive question on this here board

I guess merikin exploits must be recorded historically......but I doh see how their history is any kind of positive thing...like what they did being exemplary in the history of the region to feature in our books as guide and good example to follow > > >

and I put up a critique of your very limited perspective on supplements on your supplements thread and you nevah say nutten about dat Alien

how come ::confused:: ::confused::

I am going to bring Artemis fuh yuh rarse right here! ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

See I told ya , a dougla all mixed up . Now angry at the World and picking on Aliens.

who is that ? ::confused::

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