Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

122 Politics RUDRANATH CAPILDEO (1920-1970) T he Rudranath Capildeo Learning Resource Centre at the Ministry of Education in Couva is a tribute to this genius of mathematics who become an important political person as political leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 1960-1969. He grew up in the family’s ‘Lion House’ in Chaguanas and was educated at Queen’s Royal College in Port of Spain and the University of London where he obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, a M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1945 and also his Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics in 1948. Later, having qualified as a lawyer in England in 1958, he returned to Trinidad to practice his new profession and began his political career when he replaced BhadaseSagan Maraj as leader of the DLP in 1960. He is best known, perhaps, for his interest and understanding of Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. His work resulted in new theories, such as the “Theory of Rotation and Gravity” or “Capildeo’s Theory.” There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. • 1969 Trinity Cross. MAKANDAL DAAGA (1935-2016) F rom Laventille, he was born Geddes Granger whose political party NJAC, the National Joint Action Committee, was formed out of the ‘Black Power’ uprising of 1970 and which had a great impact on the