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

13 and Thousand Oaks and holds Venezuela’s highest award - the Simon Bolivar Award. Robinson is the holder of two international awards: The Distinguished International Criminal Law Award of 1977 and the Distinguished Human Development Award of 1983. He holds an Honorary Degree of Civil Laws (DCL) from the Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria and on a state visit there in 1991 he was made Chief of Ile Ife by the Ooni of Ife. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, and has been a Visiting Scholar to the Harvard Law School. In 1993 he was awarded the OCC, the Order of the Caribbean Community, for distinguished service to the region. He has represented Trinidad and Tobago at many international conferences and at the United Nations. He is the author of The New Frontier and the New Africa, and The Mechanics of Independence . He co-authored the article on Trinidad and Tobago in the Encyclopedia Britannica and has published numerous articles and speeches a selection of which from 1960 to 1986 have been published under the title of “ Caribbean Man .” • 1997 Trinity Cross • 2011 Airport in Tobago renamed the A.N.R. Robinson International Airport. BASDEO PANDAY (1933- ) B asdeo Panday was born in St. Julien near Princes Town and attended schools in New Grant and St. Julien before gaining entry into Presentation College, San Fernando. He then worked as a cane weigher, primary school teacher and civil servant before attending university where he obtained degrees in Drama (London School of Dramatic Art - 1960), Law (Lincoln’s Inn 1962) and Economics (London University - 1965). His has been a life of politics and trade unionism since 1966 when he became a member of the Workers and Farmers’ Party. He was also advisor to various trade unions in his private practice as a lawyer and continued his struggle for workers’ rights when he became President General of the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers’ Trade Union (ATS&GWTU) in 1973. He continued to serve in this position until his