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

41 a License in Theology. After his ordination, he taught at St. Mary’s College in the 1960s. It was during the 1970 Black Power riots in Trinidad that Fr. Pantin became determined to fight poverty and empower marginalised people. He started his work in Laventille, along with Wes Hall , and this was the beginning of the organisation Servol (Service Volunteered for All). Servol today has over 85 child care centres and some 20 adolescent development centres and its work has been recognised internationally. • 1980 – Express Individual of the Year • 1987 – Honorary Degree, Duquesne University • 1990 – Honorary Degree, University of the West Indies • 1994 – Alternative Nobel Prize • 1995 – Trinity Cross • BELVIDIARA E. MARESSE-PAUL (1838-1900) A journalist and educator and her son Edgar L. V. Maresse-Smith (1861-1905) a lawyer, were very involved in fighting for equality and the political rights of women and against injustice towards the masses.