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HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, DAME HILDA

Merle Collins


Dame Hilda Louisa (Gibbs) Bynoe is 90 today, November 18, 2011. Born in Crochu, St. Andrew’s, Hilda was the second of the two daughters of Hon. T. Joseph Gibbs (Uncle Joe) and his wife Louisa. On June 8th, 1968, Dr. Hilda Bynoe, then a medical doctor in Trinidad, was, at the suggestion of Premier Eric Gairy, appointed to the office of Governor of the State of Grenada. In 1969, following her appointment, Dr. Bynoe was given by the Queen the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire. Dame Hilda, whose term of office lasted from June 1968 to January 1974, was Grenada’s last Governor under the British colonial system.

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“Nobody like him before from whom he copying.
Nobody could sing or compose like Shadow; nobody does think like Shadow”

-Bill Trotman 

Shadow  ( Winston Bailey), October 6, 1941-
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“PLAY ONE”: A 70^TH BIRTHDAY SALUTE TO THE BLACK STALIN  

   Caldwell Taylor 

The occasion of his seventieth birthday anniversary offers us all a very privileged moment to garland calypsonian Black Stalin’s bardic genius, which has educated and entertained us for well over a half a century.

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ERIC EUSTACE WILLIAMS: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS

September 25, 1911- September 25, 2011

C. Taylor
September 25^th 2011

ERIC EUSTACE WILLIAMS IS A MAKER OF THE MODERN CARIBBEAN.
This claim-an easy one to make- rests on two big planks: Williams’s
Caribbeanist politics and his historical scholarship

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