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The Port-of-Spain City Corporation will not
celebrate Indian Arrival Day but Arrival Day next
month. The public holiday is May 30. Asked about
the corporation's plans to commemorate the day,
mayor Louis Lee Sing said: "Port-of-Spain will be
celebrating Arrival Day." He said those plans
would be announced at a later date. Lee Sing was
speaking to the media at a press conference
yesterday at City Hall, Knox Street, Port-of-Spain.
He said he believed the time had come to
celebrate Arrival Day and assured there would not
be less attention to the East Indian elements of
the celebrations. He said: "I hope there will be as
much participation by the Indian community but
I hope that there will be even increased
participation by the other communities in the
country to celebrate Arrival Day. Lee Sing said it
was unfortunate to have only one section of the
community celebrating an arrival day.
He said it was time for citizens to speak out on
the issue. He added: "We all arrived here. Some
came of their own free will. "There are
components of our population who came in
bondage... in shackles. When they came here
they were stripped of all their culture and all their
religion. They were stripped of their wives and
families. "Don't they deserve the right to
celebrate arrival, even if they came against their
will?" Indian immigration to Trinidad spanned the
period 1845-1917. Arrival Day was first
celebrated in 1994 but was renamed Indian
Arrival Day the following year.
 

from The Trinidad Guardian Newspaper http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2012-04-23/mayor-city-will-celebrate-arrival-day


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