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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 70TH 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 25th 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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Grenada, Grenada, Land of Ours!
Where our parents and fore-parents
laboured
for many long and painful hours
the Land of our forefathers
the Land that keeps striving
with vibrant , beautiful colors
with only rain and sun to help
grow such beautiful flowers
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