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[ending the month of May and, its newness: today is a Public Holiday in T&T; considering the newness for emigrants leaving their homes in India to come to Trinidad to work as indented labourers as early as 1845]

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 Happy Holiday🇹🇹 May our cups overflow with "discipline, production, and tolerance"

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adventures for a mouse set

to steampunk sailing

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Happy Holiday 2011

Happy Holiday 2011

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revisit Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day 2010


This day should be a time of deep reflection for the Spiritual Baptist/Shouter community, which needs no invitation to do so, but also for the wider national community, regardless of religious beliefs or even in the absence of religious beliefs. I say this because the fundamental theme that undergirds this celebration is freedom, in this case freedom of religion.[His Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago] read more here...

Labour Day

T&T holiday Labour Day
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Happy Holiday

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listen to 'Ring de bell' - Brother Resistance

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the bell rings
even in todays drought
blessings rain
--gillena cox


see also Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day 2009

Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi translates to mean body of Christ, this is a public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago, The Thursday after Trinity Sunday; the folk culture sets this day aside as the start of the rainy season and a day for planting house crops like pigeon peas, corn, and hot peppers. The catholic religious sets this day aside to process through the streets praying and singing hyms in reverence to Jesus Christ who offered himself to his disciples at The Last Supper and commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist
corpus christi-
a luminous moon at dawn
reshaping

Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day

Today, March 30th is a holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. 'Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day', quite a mouthful but if you speak to the observers of this holiday, they will tell you that there are baptists and baptists.
The baptists, who all take their name from Saint John the Baptist have long been in our society as a religious group; but the shouters, when they got their holy spirit visions, they took to the street shouting, singing and chanting, sometimes trance like. They are the ones who were persecuted, ridiculed, harassed, imprisoned and chased off the streets.
Well up until 1951 when the law stated it was Ok for them to freely practise their religious rites.

bare feet step-
the swirling, swirling
waters
--gillena cox

Happy Holiday March 30th 2009
Monday 30th March 2009 - the 13th anniversary of this holiday
more info here

Emancipation Day