T&T PEOPLE 02-1 (DIASPORA)
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T&T PEOPLE 02-1 (DIASPORA)
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Carl Redhead, A Pioneer Broadcaster from Mon Repos, San Fernando, Trinidad, became Vice President & General Manager of two Radio Stations in Canada.
Selwyn Romilly from Trinidad at the age of 34, was one of the youngest appointments to the Canadian Legal Bench. He was the first Black person to be appointed to any court in British Columbia and only the second Black person to be appointed to any court in Canada.
Prior Bonas was born in San Fernando, Trinidad, and migrated to Canada in 1972. He was a Toronto police officer, a Provincial Prosecutor, and then a Justice of the Peace in 2001. He was the first to import Carib Beer into Toronto with backing from his school friend Jude Cowan.
Patrick McNeilly born in T&T was a Toronto police officer for 4 years before attending University and becaming a certified educator and musician. As a member of the Ontario College of Teachers, he wrote a steelpan curriculum and was a pioneer in the introduction of steelpan music as a credit in Ontario high schools. He significantly popularized steelpan music in Canada through the Super Dave TV show.
Louis Saldenah was born in T&T and came to Canada in 1970. He followed in the footsteps of his father, the legendary Harold "Sally" Saldenah, one of Trinidad & Tobago's most renowned Carnival bandleaders. Since 2024, Louis has won the Toronto Canada Carnival Band of the Year 21 times.
Bas Balkissoon was the first Indo-Caribbean and first T&T-Canadian elected to the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Bas immigrated to Canada in 1970. He spent 17 years working at Bell Canada, with two and a half years overseas as an advisor to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Post, Telephone, and Telegraph. In 1988, he was elected as a City Councillor to the municipal government of the former City of Scarborough, and then in 1997, he was elected to the amalgamated City of Toronto. In 2001, as the chair of Toronto's Audit Committee, Bas exposed millions of dollars in misappropriated of City funds.