"It is not possible to separate his intellectual legacy from his political stewardship over the affairs of Trinidad and Tobago for some twenty-five years. The inventory of failure and achievement will undergo great variations according to the angle of vision and sectoral interests which are being reflected. For a quarter of a century he would have been at the center of the most controversial exchanges at both the national and the regional level: Federation, Chaguaramas, Independence, The University of the West Indies, CARICOM, Cuba, Grenada, and his own February Rebellion of 1970." (author)
"On 4 December 1960 the Trinidad Guardian announced that Sir Gerald Wight had joined the Democratic Labour Party. The announcement was presented in such a way as to suggest that this was a feather in the cap of the Democratic Labour Party [DLP], and therefore the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago should follow the lead of Sir Gerald Wight. Consequently, in my address here in the University on 22 December, in which I reported to the people the outcome of the Chaguaramas discussions in Tobago, I poured scorn on the Guardian reminding them that our population of today was far too alert and sophisticated to fall for any such claptrap. I told the Guardian emphatically: Massa Day Done." (author)
A personal and political analysis of Eric Williams' contribution to nationalist ideas and to the way nationalism was perceived and was directly or indirectly beneficial to many of Mohammed's generation
