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Erica Williams Connell receives South Africa's highest National Honor posthumously bestowed on her father, former Prime Minister, Dr. Eric Williams.
President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa launches his biography, "Fit to Govern: The Native Intelligence of Thabo Mbeki." June 22, 2007—President's Guest House, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. Left to right: Ronald Suresh Roberts, author from Trinidad and Tobago; Erica Williams Connell, daughter of Eric Williams to whom President Mbeki's official biography is dedicated; President Thabo Mbeki, Republic of South Africa.
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Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica,and guest speaker at the11th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture.
Left to right: Andrew M. Ali, Hillview College, Trinidad and Tobago, 3rd-place winner; Yunique Francis, Holy Childhood School, Jamaica, 1st-place winner; and Sharifa Ammon, Bishop Anstey's School, Trinidad and Tobago, 2nd-place winner ~ Photo by Aneel Karim ~ The University of the West Indies, Marketing And Communications Office
Anguilla's Ojeda Vanterpool, Albena Lake Hodge School ―winner of the 2008 Eric Williams CAPE Prize in History. In the photo, Ojeda, Anguilla's 2009 Island Scholar, is being presented with a laptop computer, framed certificate and presentation book by Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the UK, Gail Guy. The London-based ceremony took place on March 31, 2010.
Eric Williams Memorial Collection sponsors 2009 Regional 'School Bags' Essay Competition. Dexnell Peters wins the Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition Award. The winner of the Inaugural Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition met with Trinidad and Tobago President, George Maxwell Richards on July 30, 2009 at President's House. Left to Right: Winner, Dexnell Peters and Trinidad and Tobago President, George Maxwell Richards.
Inaugural Eric Williams CAPE Prize in History Awards Ceremony ~ In the Awards Ceremony at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission, Ms. Henry received, on behalf of The Eric Williams Memorial Collection at The University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago): a laptop computer, framed certificate and book prize.
Trinidad and Tobago-born Dr. Arnold Rampersad, the distinguished man of letters, waxed warm on his topic with his timely and thought-provoking delivery at the Tenth Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture on October 24, 2008. His lecture, “The Challenge of Leadership in America: Race, History and the Emergence of Barack Obama,” was held at Florida International University, as part of its African & African Diaspora Studies Program Distinguished Africana Scholars Lecture Series.
Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition Awards Ceremony hails Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica Winners. Trinidad and Tobago first prize-winner Dexnell Peters of Trinity College and his mother, Julie Peters, receiving his award from Mr. Jasper Lawrence, Chief Education Officer, Ministry of Education, Jamaica.
Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition Awards Ceremony hails Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica Winners. Jamaica second prize winner Patrina Pink of Wolmer's School receiving her award from Gavin Pettier, First Secretary Trinidad and Tobago High Commission.
Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition Awards Ceremony hails Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica Winners. Jamaica third-prize winner Machela Osagboro of Wolmer's School receiving her award from Professor E. Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor, The University of the West Indies.
Eric Williams "School Bags" Essay Competition Awards Ceremony hails Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica Winners. The Winners: Left to right are Patrina Pink, Machela Osagboro and Dexnell Peters.
Left: Verene Shepherd, Professor of Social History, University of the West Indies, Jamaica ~ Right: Joseph Inikori, Professor of History, University of Rochester delivering the 9th Annual Florida International University Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture, "Emancipation, the African Atlantic and the Long Road to Freedom" ~ October 5, 2007
