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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 Caribbean nation.

Explorer Christopher Columbus’s three ships – the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria – will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated on the island Al Jazeera reported.

“That should signal that we are on our way to removing the colonial vestiges that we have in our constitution,” he said.

The current coat of arms also features hummingbirds, a palm tree and a scarlet ibis, Trinidad’s national bird. This will be the first time the symbol will be changed when it was first designed after Trinidad gained independence from the UK in 1962.

Trinidad and Tobago will also soon hold a public hearing on whether certain statues, signs and monuments with colonial connections should also be removed.

Rowley is also advocating for abandoning the UK King’s privy council as its highest court of appeal, a legal arrangement still in place for several Commonwealth countries, including Trinidad, local media reported.

The prime minister said he no longer wants Trinidad and Tobago to be “squatters on the steps of the privy council”.

Last year, St Lucia voted to remove the council from their country’s legal system, instead joining the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2023.

Source: https://kinggram.org/go/politics/trinidad-and-tobago-redraws-coat-of-arms-to-remove-columbuss-three-ships/

Fantastic news.

All traces of the racist demons must be erased from our consciousness.

Next is to ban christianity and islam and all foreign religions.

Our ancestors knew God thousands of years before any whites or Arabs existed.

We must go back and update and re-embrace our AFRICAN RELIGION, which is the father and mother of ALL religions.

While our old Papa for we Country dey comot our own Home written National Anthem and brought back the one written by our Colonial Masters 😉😉😁

GreenxGreen:
While our old Papa for we Country dey comot our own Home written National Anthem and brought back the one written by our Colonial Masters

Your colonial ''masters'' as you see them, being a slave, did not write the anthem.

It was written by a private citizen who happened to be British, and her piece, 'Nigeria We Hail Thee', was chosen by a panel of judges out of hundreds from all over the world, after the contest was thrown open for national and international contribution.

You hate the anthem because it attacks your TRIBALISM and ETHNIC HATRED.

''Though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand''.

It is the EXACT anthem we need at this time, when you dirty tribalists and Emergency Nigerians are desperately seeking to destroy the country.

jazzman7711:
Your colonial ''masters'' as you see them, being a slave, did not write the anthem.

It was written by a private citizen who happened to be British, and her piece, 'Nigeria We Hail Thee', was chosen by a panel of judges out of hundreds from all over the world, after the contest was thrown open for national and international contribution.

You hate the anthem because it attacks your TRIBALISM and ETHNIC HATRED.

''Though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand''.

It is the EXACT anthem we need at this time, when you dirty tribalists and Emergency Nigerians are desperately seeking to destroy the country.

She is British Abi 🤔🤔🤔

Panel of judges my Blank nigga asssssss !!!!

jazzman7711:
Your colonial ''masters'' as you see them, being a slave, did not write the anthem.

It was written by a private citizen who happened to be British, and her piece, 'Nigeria We Hail Thee', was chosen by a panel of judges out of hundreds from all over the world, after the contest was thrown open for national and international contribution.

You hate the anthem because it attacks your TRIBALISM and ETHNIC HATRED.

''Though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand''.

It is the EXACT anthem we need at this time, when you dirty tribalists and Emergency Nigerians are desperately seeking to destroy the country.

Do the European call themselves "tribe"?
So you think the best way to unite Nigerians is through an anthem and not to abolish the 97%/5% nepotism principle instituted by the APC?

jazzman7711:
Fantastic news.

All traces of the racist demons must be erased from our consciousness.

Next is to ban christianity and islam and all foreign religions.

Our ancestors knew God thousands of years before any whites or Arabs existed.

We must go back and update and re-embrace our AFRICAN RELIGION, which is the father and mother of ALL religions.

So that u can continue with ur evil ritual

Fishgamer:
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 Caribbean nation.

Explorer Christopher Columbus’s three ships – the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria – will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated on the island Al Jazeera reported.

“That should signal that we are on our way to removing the colonial vestiges that we have in our constitution,” he said.

The current coat of arms also features hummingbirds, a palm tree and a scarlet ibis, Trinidad’s national bird. This will be the first time the symbol will be changed when it was first designed after Trinidad gained independence from the UK in 1962.

Trinidad and Tobago will also soon hold a public hearing on whether certain statues, signs and monuments with colonial connections should also be removed.

Rowley is also advocating for abandoning the UK King’s privy council as its highest court of appeal, a legal arrangement still in place for several Commonwealth countries, including Trinidad, local media reported.

The prime minister said he no longer wants Trinidad and Tobago to be “squatters on the steps of the privy council”.

Last year, St Lucia voted to remove the council from their country’s legal system, instead joining the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2023.

Source: https://kinggram.org/go/politics/trinidad-and-tobago-redraws-coat-of-arms-to-remove-columbuss-three-ships/

That's a significant move to rebrand Trinidad and Tobago's image in the 21st-Century but it doesn't remove the historical FACT that Spanish, Portuguese, British, French, and Dutch colonialism took place in the Caribbean and the North American and South American land masses.

jazzman7711:
Fantastic news.

All traces of the racist demons must be erased from our consciousness.

Next is to ban christianity and islam and all foreign religions.

Our ancestors knew God thousands of years before any whites or Arabs existed.

We must go back and update and re-embrace our AFRICAN RELIGION, which is the father and mother of ALL religions.

no one is worshipping your blood thirsty gods with you. I'm pretty sure you live in the 'racist demons' land