Chester Sam­bra­no

News­gath­er­ing Ed­i­tor

chester.sam­bra­no@guardian.co.tt

Fa­mous Amer­i­can ac­tress Phyli­cia Rashad has left T&T af­ter spend­ing four days on the is­land.

Speak­ing briefly be­fore board­ing her flight at Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port on Sat­ur­day, Rashad said while it was her first time in this coun­try, she could not have imag­ined it and the ex­pe­ri­ence was one she would nev­er for­get.

“I am tak­ing Trinidad with me, so it may look like I am leav­ing and in a sense I am, but I am tak­ing you with me,” she said.

Rashad came to T&T as a guest of the for­mer pres­i­dent of Howard Uni­ver­si­ty, Trinida­di­an-Amer­i­can Schol­ar and sur­geon Dr Wayne Fred­er­ick and his wife.

While here, she vis­it­ed sev­er­al places in­clud­ing the Bam­boo Cathe­dral in Ch­aguara­mas, Phase II Pan Groove, Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege and the Ca­roni Swamp.

She de­scribed her trip to the Ca­roni Swamp as amaz­ing.

“The ex­pe­ri­ence of just sit­ting there in the si­lence watch­ing the birds come in­to this is­land to nest, that alone is worth the trip to Trinidad,” she said.

She said that ex­pe­ri­ence cou­pled with meet­ing the peo­ple was worth the ex­pe­ri­ence.

“The peo­ple are great, Trinida­di­an peo­ple are very warm and very wel­com­ing and en­thu­si­as­tic,” she said. She was in awe of how peo­ple in T&T cel­e­brate life.

Rashad was best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the hit NBC sit­com, The Cos­by Show.