Establishment of office and functions of Auditor General. Public debt. Public Service Commission. Appointment, dismissal and disciplinary control of public officers. Appointment and removal of principal representatives of Trinidad and Tobago abroad. Tenure of office of Auditor-General. Police Service Commission. Appointment, dismissal and disciplinary control of police officers. Protection of pension rights. Powers of Commissions in relation to grant of person, etc. Specially entrenched Office of Governor General.
Establishment of Parliament. Composition of Senate. Composition of House of Representatives. Amendment of Constitution. Annual meetings of Parliament. Dissolution of Parliament. General Elections and Appointment of Senators. Boundaries Commission.
Procedure for Review of Constituency boundaries. Establishment of Supreme Court. Constitution of High Court. Appointment of Puisne Judges. Tenure of office of Puisne Judges. Constitution of Court of Appeal. Appointment of Judges of Court of Appeal. Tenure of office of Judges of Court of Appeal. Remuneration of Govenor-General and certain other officers. Elections Commission. Universal adult franchise subject to the qualifications laid down by Parliament.
Freedom of Speech in Parliament. Interpretation so far as it relates to the foregoing. The Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act, To be purchased from York House, Kingsway, London w. Welcome Address by the Prime Minister-designate. In case of heavy rain, the programme will be as follows All schools in and around Port-of-Spain 22, children. Trinidad folk songs by massed children's choirs Indian dances, Joropo, Belee, Songs specially composed for the occasion by Trinidadians and Tobagonians.
Dance, choral, music groups, steel orchestras from all over the country The Gala Performance will be televised This event will be televised. The Bishop of Trinidad or his representative on behalf of Anglicans. The representative of the Ministerial Council of Evangelical Churches. A representative of the Hindu Faith.
The Shaikh Ul-Islam or his representative for the Muslims. Andrew Church, Scarborough, Tobago. Official Services throughout Trinidad and Tobago. Monday 3rd September: ; 9. General's House, during which time the Police will beat Retreat. Donaldson Technical Institute. Sports Entertainment-Morne La Croix. Variety entertainment highlighting Folk Dancing at the following places. Programme includes Welcome Address, Reply, Presentations.
Bonfire-San Fernando Hill. John Ambulance Band- Skinner Park. Inspects Guard of Honour comprising of Cadets. Inspects Parade comprising of Red Cross, St. Mayor's Welcome Address on behalf of Citizens. Royal Reply. Presentation of Bouquet. Helena Coronation Park. Andrew Cumuto Junction. Andrew Valencia. School Children's Rally in St.
Andrew Sangre Grande 3. David Toco Mission. Andrew Valencia 12 noon - Dinner for the Aged-St. David Sans Souci. Andrew Guaico, Tamana and Cumuto Junctions.
Andrew Mature Village. David Grande Riviere. David Jumana. Andrew Guaico. Andrew Sangre Grande to September 4th. Andrew Sangre Grande. Fiestas in St. Andrew Rampanalgas, Cumuto, Manzanilla St.
David Cumana. Andrew Matelot. Andrew Cumuto. Dinner for the Aged in the following places- St. Andrew Sangre Grande, Manzanilla St. David Toco, Monte Video. Andrew Bans 12 noon-Dinner for the Aged St. David L'Anse Noire.
Andrew Mature. Andrew Manzanilla. Dinner for the Aged-St. David Matelot. Augustine p. Evening variety entertainment in the Pasea Maingot Road, St. John's Village, El Dorado, St. Ann's Community Centre and Santa Crux districts. Ann's Community Centres 6 p. Joseph Park. Ann's Community Centre , St. School Sports and variety entertainment -Maraval. Children's Rally, Camp Fire-St. Ann's Community Centre. John's Village, Afaingot Road, St. Marie Savannah. School Children's Treat in all Districts.
School and Texaco Point D'or Ground. Camp Fire and Community Singing-Siparia 9 p. Steelband Concert-Siparia District. Recreation Ground. Fortin District Coronation Park. D'or Recreation Ground. Treat for School children during the day in all parts of the Victoria Area. School Grounds and Gasparillo District. Dinner for the Poor and Aged-Speyside. Andrew's Church, Scarborough. Parade of Youth Groups-Charlotteville, Speyside. George, Moriah District, and Mason Hall.
Tomorrow Independence Day, you will be the children of the citizens of the Independent State of Trinidad and Tobago and in a few years after that you will be called upon by the law of the land to share in the privileges and responsibilities, the rights and duties of citizens. Tomorrow I shall have an equally great honour and responsibility that of being the first Prime Minister of an Independent nation.
I am very happy indeed, therefore, to take part today in this memorable Rally and to send through you, the boys and girls here today at the Queen's Park Oval, to all the young people of Trinidad and Tobago. Our new nation must maintain and develop its political system and its democratic machinery.
It must provide the cabinet ministers, the members of parliament, the civil servants, the doctors, the lawyers, the engineers, the ambassadors, the nurses, the teachers, the skilled workers and the writers and artistes, which every independent nation has and provides for itself.
It must organise and plan our economy to increase the national wealth and improve our living standards. We who are doing all this today, as well as, we will have to give way in the years to come to you young people who will come forward to take our place.
The nation is on the march. There is no turning back. The road from now on leads forward and only forward. Your responsibility, therefore, is a very heavy one. If you shirk it you betray the nation.
If you fail in that responsibility, you jeopardize our nation. The discipline is both individual and national. The individual cannot be allowed to seek his personal interests and gratify his personal ambitions at the expense of a nation. We must produce in order to enjoy. Wealth does not drop from the sky for any individual or any nation. Reduce production, skylark on the job, take twice as long to do a job and make it cost twice as much, do any of these things and in effect you reduce the total amount available to be shared among the total number of people.
You don't pull your weight and you fatten at the expense of others. Your Rally here today is a good demonstration of our mixed society, some of you have ancestors who came from one country, some from another, others from a third.
Some of you profess one religion, some another, others a third or fourth. You in your schools have, like the nation in general only two alternatives - you learn to live together in peace or you fight it out and destroy one another. The second alternative makes no sense and is sheer barbarism. The first alternative is civilised and is simple common sense. You the children, yours is the great responsibility to educate your parents, teach them to live together in harmony, the difference being not race or colour of skin, but merit only, differences of wealth and family status being rejected in favour of equality of opportunity.
I call upon all of you young people to practice what you sing today and tomorrow; to translate the ideal of our National Anthem into a code of everyday behaviour, and to make our Nation one in which 'ev'ry creed and race find an equal place'. I give to you the young people, one additional principle on which to base your lives for the salvation of our Nation. This principle is honesty. In your future career, you will at some time or other have responsibility for money that is not yours, whether your employer is the Government of the country or a private firm.
Every country makes special provision for the control of public expenditure and for the protection of the property of its citizens. In the final analysis, however, the control is exercised not by the Government or by the police but by the citizens themselves. Make honesty the guiding principle of your lives from this day forward. Let your ambition be the development of a Nation, which, whatever its limitations, is distinguished in the eyes of the world by the honesty and integrity of its citizens.
And so I say to you young people: forward to Independence. Do not allow anyone to disrespect our National Flag. Do not allow anyone to destroy one single National Bird. Do not allow anyone to desecrate our National Anthem. They are your Flag, your Bird, your Anthem.
It is your Nation even more than it is the Nation of your parents. You are the future; we are at best the present, at worst the past. To your tender and loving hands the future of the Nation is entrusted.
In your innocent hearts the pride of the Nation is enshrined. On your scholastic development the salvation of the Nation is dependent. At the birth of our Nation, four of its leading personalities, four people with the heaviest responsibility for its guidance in the Cabinet, Parliament and the Judiciary are scholarship winners, educated abroad at the expense of your parents -the taxpayers: the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice, the Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Representatives and the Leader of the Opposition.
And I hope soon to announce that yet a fifth scholarship winner has been selected to represent our nation in one of the highest positions in the Diplomatic Service.
Good luck to you all, to your parents and your teachers and to Trinidad and Tobago. Eric Williams delivered the following speech to the nation over the radio on August 31, , the first day of Trinidad and Tobago's independence from Great Britain. It is a great honour to me to address this morning the citizens of the Independent Nation of Trinidad and Tobago as their first Prime Minister.
Your National Flag has been hoisted to the strains of your National Anthem, against the background of your National Coat of Arms, and amidst the beauty of your National Flower. You have your own Governor General and your own Chief Justice, both appointed on the advice of your own Prime Minister. You have your own National Guard, however small.
Some rebel soldiers led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle mutinied against the government on April 22, Six U. The U. Government troops suppressed the mutiny on April 25, The government ended the state-of-emergency on November 20, The government lifted the ban on political activity on November 24, In March , nine government soldiers were sentenced to prison for their involvement in the April military rebellion.
Opposition political groups boycotted the parliamentary elections. In response to labor unrest, the government declared a state of emergency on October 19, The government lifted the state of emergency on June 30, On September 13, , government security forces captured a NUFF camp located in the northern range of the island of Trinidad.
The NUFF rebellion was suppressed by government security forces in late Some 18 individuals, including 15 rebels and three government policemen, were killed during the rebellion. The parliament approved a new constitution on March 29, , and the constitution was promulgated on August 1, Parliamentary elections were held on September 13, , and the PNM won 24 out of 36 seats in the House of Representatives.
Post-Crisis Phase September 27, July 26, : Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke was elected president by the parliament on December 29, , and he was inaugurated as president on December 30, Local elections were held in Trinidad on April 21, The parliament was dissolved on September 18, Parliamentary elections were held on November 9, , and the PNM won 26 out of 36 seats in the House of Representatives. Abdul Kareem, a member of the militant Muslim group Jamaat-al-Muslimeen , was killed by government policemen in St.
A governor-general was appointed, who selected an Executive Council from the party with the winning majority.
The governor then acted on the advice of the Executive Council. The return of Dr. Eric Williams from abroad, heralded a vibrant era of party politics since he was encouraged to form a political party. On 24 September , Dr.
In , a Federation of the West Indies was formed; but when Jamaica withdrew in , Trinidad and Tobago decided that it was time to receive full independence so that it could pursue its own governance. On Friday, Dec. In , independence talks took place between Trinidad and Tobago and Britain at Marlborough House in London, resulting in full independence on 31 Augusut Included in the talks was the leader of the opposition Democratic Labor Party, Dr. Rudranath Capildeo.
Williams in Eric Williams, automatically became the Prime Minister. The British Monarch remained as the head of state and the Privy Council, the highest court of appeal. Williams in his Independence Day message to the nation 31 August called on citizens to protect democracy. Democracy means the obligation of the minority to recognize the right of the majority. Democracy means responsibility of the government to its citizens, the protection of the citizen from the exercise of arbitrary power and the violation of human and freedoms and individual rights of expression.
Democracy means freedom of expression and assemble organization. In , Trinidad and Tobago achieved its status as a republic, the president then assumed this role. Sir Ellis Clarke became the first president of the republic.
Trinidad and Tobago becoming an Independent Nation, now meant that Britain, no longer controlled the affairs of the country.
It was now the responsibility of the newly elected Prime Minister and the locally elected Cabinet. Independence also meant that a Constitution, symbols, emblems, an army, Trinidad and Tobago currency and passports had to be developed for the country.
We wish to maintain and strengthen those bonds of friendship which have existed for over one hundred and fifty years. I offer you and all the people of this country my warm personal congratulations on the achievement of your aspirations.
What will you transmit to your children five years from today? Other countries ceased to exist in that period. Some, in much less time, have become totally disorganised, a prey to anarchy and civil war. Democracy means equality of opportunity for all in education, in the public service, and in private employment—I repeat, and in private employment.
Democracy means the protection of the weak against the strong. Democracy means the obligation of the minority to recognise the right of the majority. Democracy means responsibility of the Government to its citizens, the protection of the citizens from the exercise of arbitrary power and the violation of human freedoms and individual rights. Democracy means freedom of worship for all and the subordination of the right of any race to the overriding right of the human race.
Democracy means freedom of expression and assemble of organization. Site Map. Road to Independence Trinidad and Tobago celebrates its 52nd anniversary of Independence on 31 August Meaning of Independence Trinidad and Tobago becoming an Independent Nation, now meant that Britain, no longer controlled the affairs of the country. As an Independent Nation, Trinidad and Tobago assigns Ambassadors overseas who represent the country.
They sign treaties on behalf of Trinidad and Tobago and become members of various international organisations. This is important, as it gives Trinidad and Tobago equal rights on various issues relating to international trade, policies and treaties. The first responsibility that devolves upon you is the protection and promotion of your democracy.
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