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The Essential Benedict Wight and other writings by Owen Baptiste is a political history of Trinidad and Tobago in the tumultuous years after its Independence on 31 August 1962. A no-holds barred newspaper column, Benedict Wight grew out of the turbulence of black power politics and the efforts of governments to stop the tide of racial conflicts. Says Baptiste: "My plan for Benedict Wight was to create a newspaper personality that was informed, wise and courageous. That was the reason for the frequent references to writers like Shaw, Camus and Nietzsche. I wanted Trinidadians and Tobagonians...

Trini Talk - A Dictionary of Words and Proverbs of Trinidad & Tobago. This is the second edition of an indigenous collection by author Rhona S. Baptiste. It has been expanded to include new contributions to the vernacular since its first publication in 1994. The words of the late educator Esmond Ramesar however still holds: "She has drawn widely on Amerindian, French, Spanish, Hindi, African and English sources for phrases." It is a book for all Trini lovers.

"Fall from Grace" is a timeline on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago that celebrated its 50th anniversary of Independence during Kamla Persad-Bissessar's tenureship as first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Rhona Simone Baptiste has once again faithfully recorded the political background of news and events against which Kamla Persad-Bissessar's Victory of the People as it was dubbed on May 24th 2010 was to fall in defeat on September 7th 2015. As the People's Partnership, her leadership embraced her own United National Congress, with the Congress of the People, the National...