In 1970, the year of the Black Pow­er ac­tiv­i­ties in Trinidad, which em­anat­ed from uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents of African de­scent in Cana­da, the then Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Tony May (a Trinida­di­an of Eu­ro­pean de­scent), pub­licly stat­ed and proph­e­sied that he would have been "the last white Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice in Trinidad."

Note 1: To­ba­go in those Dr Er­ic Williams days didn't count.

Note 2: Makan­dal Daa­ga ought to re­mem­ber "Two-gun May" (a Web­ley re­volver in ei­ther hand).

Note 3: There are prob­a­bly less than a dozen po­lice of­fi­cers still serv­ing now from that time in 1970.

Note 4: No racial­ism in­tend­ed–the Cana­di­ans I have known are quite de­cent peo­ple ex­cept for those in the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion of the 1980s, the NAR years.

Well, well, well, how things do change! Or do they?

Mar­sood Khan

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