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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Mayor: City will celebrate Arrival Day

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The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion will not cel­e­brate In­di­an Ar­rival Day but Ar­rival Day next month. The pub­lic hol­i­day is May 30. Asked about the cor­po­ra­tion's plans to com­mem­o­rate the day, may­or Louis Lee Sing said: "Port-of-Spain will be cel­e­brat­ing Ar­rival Day." He said those plans would be an­nounced at a lat­er date. Lee Sing was speak­ing to the me­dia at a press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day at City Hall, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain. He said he be­lieved the time had come to cel­e­brate Ar­rival Day and as­sured there would not be less at­ten­tion to the East In­di­an el­e­ments of the cel­e­bra­tions. He said: "I hope there will be as much par­tic­i­pa­tion by the In­di­an com­mu­ni­ty but I hope that there will be even in­creased par­tic­i­pa­tion by the oth­er com­mu­ni­ties in the coun­try to cel­e­brate Ar­rival Day. Lee Sing said it was un­for­tu­nate to have on­ly one sec­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­brat­ing an ar­rival day.

He said it was time for cit­i­zens to speak out on the is­sue. He added: "We all ar­rived here. Some came of their own free will. "There are com­po­nents of our pop­u­la­tion who came in bondage... in shack­les. When they came here they were stripped of all their cul­ture and all their re­li­gion. They were stripped of their wives and fam­i­lies. "Don't they de­serve the right to cel­e­brate ar­rival, even if they came against their will?" In­di­an im­mi­gra­tion to Trinidad spanned the pe­ri­od 1845-1917. Ar­rival Day was first cel­e­brat­ed in 1994 but was re­named In­di­an Ar­rival Day the fol­low­ing year.


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