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

10 Printing Office, 1959; History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago . Port of Spain: PNM Publishing, 1962; “Speech on Independence.” Nation , August 31, 1962; Capitalism and Slavery, 1964; British Historians and the West Indies ., 1966; Britain and the West Indies . London: Longmans for the University of Essex, 1969; Inward Hunger: The Education of a Prime Minister , 1969; From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 , 1970; The Chaguaramas Declaration . Port of Spain: PNM Publishing, 1970. Capitalism and Slavery has been translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. There is a collection of his material at the West Indiana and Special Collections Division at UWI. Named in his honour: • Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex • Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture • Eric Williams Memorial Collection, which is included in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register • Eric Williams Centenary Stamps collection, 2011, in memory of his birth 100 years ago. He was awarded the Trinity Cross, posthumously, in 2002. ELLIS I. I. CLARKE (1917-2010) S ir Ellis Clarke attended St. Mary’s College, London University and Gray’s Inn, England where he became a lawyer. He was the second Governor General of T&T from 1972 to 1976 and then the first President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from 1976 to 1987. Not long after his return to Trinidad and Tobago, he was called to the Bar and opened a private practice from 1941-1954. Between 1954 and 1962 he held several posts in theColonial Government: Solicitor General, deputy Colonial Secretary, Attorney General and Constitutional Adviser to the Cabinet. After T&T attained Independence, he became a foreign diplomat, holding numerous posts between 1962 to 1976, including Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.