I write to extend support for the call by Mr. Ravi Dev (SN April 28) and others of renaming Arrival Day (May 5) as Indian Arrival Day and to salute those who played a significant role in getting ...

Next Sunday, May 5th, the day on which the first indentured labourers from India landed on our shores, is a Public Holiday. However, it is officially dubbed “Arrival Day”, which implicitly ...

The Government of Jamaica, in 1995, proclaimed the Indian Arrival Day, May 10, as the Indian Heritage Day in recognition of the Indians’ contribution to the social and economic development of ...

As we approach Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago please permit me to share a bit of local history and to recognise some of the individuals who have contributed to making this occasion as ...

The event on Sunday was the first such celebration by the High Commission to celebrate the arrival of the first group of Indians in 1845 ...

The Indian diaspora which celebrates its 176th Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago is not an abstract entity, but one that flowers the socio-economic and cultural growth and development of ...

Today is Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago and Coffeewallah reminisces on her former mother-in-law's legacy and the first time she taught her to wrap a sari: “It is an elegant garment…every ...

Port-of-Spain: Trinidad celebrated its 168th Indian Arrival Day with street parades, religious services, plays, skits and re-enactments of the first landing on May 30, 1845. Trinidad's president ...

On May 30 Trinidad and Tobago celebrated Indian Arrival Day, a holiday commemorating the first wave of migration to the islands from India, in 1845. The immigrants came as indentured labourers, bound ...