Cudjoe defends East Indian acts at event

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Nikita Braxton-BenjaminJournalist at Express

August 21, 2026

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Cudjoe defends East Indian acts at event

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The criticism over East Indian acts being included in this year’s University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) African Emancipation Day programme has not perturbed UTT’s executive chairman of the board of governors, Prof Selwyn Cudjoe.

He said yesterday that it will be done again next year.

Cudjoe said the function of a university was to educate, liberate and free the mind.

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