Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to ...
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Trinidad and Tobago redraws coat of arms to remove Columbus’s three ships
Trinidad and Tobago is redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonisation – a move lauded by many in the eastern ...
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Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms
Meanwhile, writer Kevin Jared Hosein offered his own point of view: “A coat of arms is a story stitched from emblems. The ships are part of this particular one's story. The ships, the hills, it is why ...
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Coat of arms fiasco
The issuance of a new coat of arms for the nation has become a total ... Ms Bishop’s actual client is the people of Trinidad and Tobago. It is her responsibility to provide a design that meets ...
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Desecrating our coat of arms
After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...