I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

In a famous speech at Woodford Square in Port of Spain he declared that he had decided to "put down his bucket" in the land of his birth. Independence era


Black Power
Between 1968 and 1970 the Black Power movement gained strength in Trinidad and Tobago. In 1938 he went on to obtain his doctorate (see section below).

Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation.