From 2004 onwards, Indian organizations and prominent Indians in the diaspora and Guyana have continued to petition for an appellation change, Indian Arrival Day. That is how it is referred to by ...

As usual there will be calls by Indian Guyanese groups and individuals for the holiday to be given the designation proposed by the Parliamentary Commit-tee, “Indian Arrival Day”, in 2004.

The Government of Jamaica, in 1995, proclaimed the Indian Arrival Day, May 10, as the Indian Heritage Day in recognition of the Indians’ contribution to the social and economic development of ...

Indian Arrival Day was first celebrated in Skinner Park, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, as the East Indian centenary on May 30, 1945, which marked the hundredth anniversary of the coming of ...

The Indian diaspora which celebrates its 176th Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago is not an abstract entity, but one that flowers the socio-economic and cultural growth and development ...

Trinidad celebrated its 168th Indian Arrival Day with street parades, religious services, plays, skits and re-enactments of the first landing on May 30, 1845.

On May 30 Trinidad and Tobago celebrated Indian Arrival Day, a holiday commemorating the first wave of migration to the islands from India, in 1845.The immigrants came as indentured labourers, bound ...

Today is Indian Arrival Day in Trinidad and Tobago and Coffeewallah reminisces on her former mother-in-law's legacy and the first time she taught her to wrap a sari: “It is an elegant garment…every ...