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Punching above our weight in the world

HE Professor George Maxwell Richards

President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Rising together towards greater prosperity

The Hon Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Overture

Dr Hamid Ghany

Senior Lecturer and Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

A tale of diversity

Rhoda Bharath

Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities and Education, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Jo-Anne Ferreira

Lecturer in Linguistics, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Foreign social scientists look at Trinidad at Independence

Dr Anthony Maingot

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Florida International University

Isle of immigrants - confrontation to cooperation

Father Anthony de Verteuil CSSP

Black entrepreneurship in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago

Professor Selwyn Ryan

Professor Emeritus, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Sidney Knox and the birth of the conglomorate

Gérard A. Besson HBM

Historian and Author, Trinidad

Laying the foundations of the modern energy industry

Angelo Bissessarsingh

From state control to the marketplace

Everard Medina

Chaguaramas: gateway to Trinidad

Angelo Bissessarsingh

Understanding our national anthem

Dr Hamid Ghany

Senior Lecturer and Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Mermaids, imps and goddesses: the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago

Gérard A. Besson

Historian and Author, Trinidad

Understanding our constitutional foundations

Dr Hamid Ghany

Senior Lecturer and Former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago"s foreign relations since independence

Professor Anthony Bryan

Senior Associate, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CISI), Washington DC and Senior Fellow, Institute of International Relations, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago and Latin America after 50 years

Dr Anthony Peter Gonzales

Former Director of the Institute of International Relations, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Putting down the cross: independence and national honours

Professor Bridget Brereton

Emerita Professor of History, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

The post-independence Chief Justices of Trinidad and Tobago

The Honourable Herbert Volney MP

Minister of Justice, Trinidad and Tobago

Pan the instrument that built a nation

Dr Kim Johnson

Writer, Journalist and Steelband Scholar

Achieving sustainability in our music for the steelband

Mark Loquan

Composer and Honorary Founding Director, Music Literacy Trust

V.S. Naipaul: not just one out of many

Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie

Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development and former Principal UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Calypso: speaking truth to power, 1962-2012

Professor Hollis Liverpool (aka the Mighty Chalkdust)

Calypsonian and Educator, University of Trinidad and Tobago

Brian Macfarlane: Mas"man supreme

Brian Macfarlane

Artist and Entrepreneur, Trinidad

Redefining Trinidad and Tobago"s cultural boundaries

Dr Satnarine Balkaransingh

Scholar and Specialist in Indian Dance and Culture, Trinidad

50 years of Trinidad and Tobago culture

Peter Ray Blood

Journalist and Entertainment Editor, Trinidad and Tobago Guardian

Mastana Bahar and the Mohammeds

Rafi Mohammed

An untapped treasure: the Trinidad and Tobago film industry

Professor Patricia Mohammed

Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Obeah in our fifty years

LeRoy Clarke

Poet, Artist and Author Extraordinaire

Oil, natural gas and diversification

David Renwick

Caribbean Energy Correspondent, Trinidad

New economic spaces for the development of Trinidad and Tobago

Dr Manfred Jantzen

Former Senior Advisor to Minister Winston Dookeran and Business Studies Scholar, Trinidad and Tobago

Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago: how do we move forward?

Dr Sharon Hutchinson

Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Opportunities for young people over the next 50 years

Denzil Mohammed

Writer, Editor and Journalist, Trinidad and Tobago

An historic window of opportunity for FDI in Trinidad and Tobago

An overview from InvesTT

Research in Trinidad and Tobago

Dr David Rampersad

Director, Office of Research, Development and Knowledge Transfer, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Sustainable Business of the future now!

Anna Bella Thorne

Youth Ambassador, Environmental Management Authority, Trinidad and Tobago

Environmental challenges in T&T over the last 50 years

Professor John Agard

Professor of Tropical Island Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Debating the per capita measure of carbon emissions

Dr David McDermott Hughes

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, USA

Sustainable development - Trinidad and Tobago at the crossroads

Dr Marlene Attzs

Ag. Coordinator, Sustainable Economic Development Unit (SEDU), Department of Economics, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Tobago at fifty

Orville London

Chief Secretary, Tobago House of Assembly

An indomitable search for an elusive autonomy

Dr Rita Pemberton

Senior Lecturer, Department of History, UWI, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad

Reflections on Tobago"s tourism challenges

Neil Wilson

Senior Consultant, Division of Tourism and Transportation, Former Secretary of Tourism and Transportation, Tobago House of Assembly

Tobago: A socio-historical portrait

Kevin Baldeosingh

Journalist, Novelist and Author, Trinidad

Locating our cricket heritage

Fazeer Mohammed

Celebrating our sports personalities

Valentino Singh

Sporting accomplishments and their tourism potential

Anthony Harford

Fulfilling Trinidad and Tobago"s tourism promise

John Bell

Former Director General and CEO of the Caribbean Hotel Association

The evolution of ecotourism in Trinidad and Tobago

Courtenay Rooks

Advernturer, Naturalist and Eco Tourism Professional, Trinidad and Tobago

It"s cool to be a Trinbagonian

Anya Ayoung-Chee

Fashion Designer and Entrepreneur, Trinidad