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Deputy Man­ag­ing Ed­i­tor

When T&T raised its own flag for the first time in 1962, Nicky “Un­cle Nicky” Greaves was al­ready 38 years old—a man who had scrubbed wood­en floors for a pen­ny, rid­den tram­cars for a cent, and lived in an era when doors did not need to be locked.

To­day, at 101, much old­er than the na­tion it­self, he is a liv­ing wit­ness to both colo­nial rule and six decades of in­de­pen­dence.