Jalal Bacchus – 100 year old coconut vendor
First published inTrinidad Express Newspaper Port-of-Spain December 2, 1997:- Jalal Bacchus claims he was the first man to sell coconuts around the Queen’s Park Savannah….
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TT Fractious Muslim Communities Presents AG With Dilemma
Trinidad & Tobago’s fractious Muslim Communities took separate and seemingly opposing view points on the Attorney General’s proposed amendments to the Anti-Terror laws. “Muslims Roundtable”…
NY Times:Trying to Stanch Trinidad’s Flow of Young Recruits to ISIS
As published by New York Times here ENTERPRISE, Trinidad and Tobago — By the time he was 17, Fahyim Sabur had memorized the Quran. At…
Divided T & T Muslims in National Security Discussions
Meeting with National Security and US Embassy The Trinidad Guardian reports that: Government yesterday called on representatives of certain local Muslims organisations to share information…
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim On…
Middle East: Don’t Go There!
Published by Trinidad Guardian “Clear my name…” That’s the appeal to the police and Government from Islamic studies scholar Tariq Mohammed who was detained in…
Caribbean Calling: Nourishing Communities of Faith
At the beginning of the blessed month of Rabi’al Awwal 1438, Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al-Azhari will visit the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago….
Ashmead Choate – The Radical Enigma
For his intimate family, relatives and friends Ashmead Choate was a sensitive, kind, caring and loving son, brother, husband, father and friend. It remains a…
Islam thrives in communist Cuba
Published in USA Today here HAVANA — As Cuban salsa beats pulsate along Obispo Street in the oldest section of this Caribbean capital, bearded men raise…
Meet Firhaana Bulbulia – Queen’s Young Leader from Barbados
Firhaana Bulbulia is the founder of Barbados Association of Muslim Ladies. In August she launched a project called Breaking Barriers which aims to overcome cultural and…