Caribbean Builders : Lest We Foget, Eric Williams Trinidad and Tobago

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One Caribbean Nation.

The Hon. Eric Eustace Williams TC CH (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as Prime Minister from 1962 until his death in 1981. He was also a brilliant  Caribbean scholar and historian.



” Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.”

Eric Williams


  • Eric Williams. 1944. Capitalism and Slavery Richmond, Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.
  • Eric Williams. 1964. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago. Port of Spain. ISBN 1-881316-65-3.
  • Eric Williams. 1964. British Historians and the West Indies, Port of Spain.
  • Solow, Barbara, and Stanley Engerman (eds). 1987. British Capitalism & Caribbean Slavery: the Legacy of Eric Williams.
  • Cudjoe, Selwyn. 1993. Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays on Colonialism and Independence. ISBN 0-87023-887-6.

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This new series of the Mahogany Coconut Group will highlight outstanding  leaders from the Caribean.We must familiarise ourselves and our children with the works of these leaders.

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