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Trinidad and Tobago redraws coat of arms to remove Columbus’s three ships
Trinidad and Tobago is redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonisation – a move lauded by many in the eastern ...
Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships
Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island’s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to ...
Voice Newspaper14d
Trinidad & Tobago unveil new coat of arms after Columbus’ ships replaced with Steelpan
PM of Trinidad and Tobago unveils new coat of arms after Columbus ships were replaced by the Steelpa, a symbol of national identity ...
Central Banking2d
Trinidad to remove Columbus imagery from TT$100 banknote
The Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago announced on February 16 that it would be issuing a new TT$100 bill that includes the ...
Global Voices Online25d
Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms
Meanwhile, writer Kevin Jared Hosein offered his own point of view: “A coat of arms is a story stitched from emblems. The ships are part of this particular one's story. The ships, the hills, it is why ...
FIRSTonline12d
Farewell to Christopher Columbus: the three caravels removed from the coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago. Controversy over the new symbol
In America centrale, il premier afroamericano Rowley ha deciso di sostituire il simbolo della colonizzazione con il tamburo ...
Trinidad Express Newspapers4d
New $100 polymer bill by Sept
THE redesigned coat of arms, featuring the pan instead of Christopher Columbus’ ships, has been integrated into the new-look ...
Trinidad Express Newspapers23d
Desecrating our coat of arms
After my column last year, ‘Thank you, pan minister’ in which I ‘thanked’ Prime Minister Dr Rowley for the ill-timed, ill-thought decision to redesign our coat of arms, I never intended to ...