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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday announced that Nelson Island will be renamed to honour the “jahaji legacy” and the thousands of Indian indentured labourers who first arrived there from India—including her own maternal great-grandmother, Sumaria Seepersad.
Speaking during a visit to the island with India’s Minister of External Affairs, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Persad-Bissessar described the site as deeply symbolic for descendants of indentured labourers who were brought to Trinidad before being sent to work on sugarcane plantations.
She announced that a committee headed by permanent secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Natasha Barrow, together with the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, would oversee the renaming process. A website will also be launched to allow members of the public to submit suggestions for a new name.
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