Dr Rita Pemberton, former head of the Department of History at UWI.
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Dr. Rita Pemberton is a former Senior Lecturer in History at UWI, St. Augustine. She holds a PhD from UWI and has taught the History of Trinidad and Tobago, Imperialism and various aspects of Caribbean History at UWI St. Augustine from 1990- 2013. She is a former Head of the Department of History and Deputy Dean, Student Affairs in the Faculty of Humanities and Education and a past President of the Association of Caribbean Historians. She has served the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) as a member of the CSEC Caribbean History Examining Team since 2000 and from 2008-2016 she was Chief Examiner Caribbean History. She was a Member of the Working Committee of the Sub-Committee to Revise the Tobago House of Assembly Act and the Position of Tobago in the Constitution of Trinidad & Tobago from 2008-2012. She was awarded a Bishop’s High School Outstanding Alumnae Award in 2008 and a Queen’s Jubilee Research Scholar Award in 2013* *source: https://theorg.com/org/college-of-science-technology-and-applied-arts-of-trinidad-and-tobago/org-chart/rita-pemberton; Portrait, source: Tobago Newsday. |
During the last several years, Dr Pemberton has written more than 150 articles that have been published in the Tobago Newsday newspaper, and some that appeared elsewhere. Thank you, Dr Pemberton.
Alphabetical Index of Articles
18th-century defence challenges, posted on May 25, 2023
18th,19th-century mail challenges, posted on June 8, 2023
200 years of service to Tobago: The Methodist Church 1818-2018, posted on July 18, 2018
A Decade Of Tumult The 1970s In Tobago [Part 1] - Caribbean Empowerment Blog, posted on August 25, 2020
A Decade Of Tumult The 1970s in Tobago [Part II] - Caribbean Empowerment Blog, posted on August 26, 2020
A false promise of equality the termination of apprenticeship, 1838, posted on August 5, 2021
Act No 40 of 1996 Political turbulence, posted on October 15, 2020
African impact on Tobago's food history, posted on April 26, 2021
Agriculture: Tobago's lifeline in the 20th century, posted on September 16, 2021
Ancestors weep lessons from silk cotton tree, posted on December 10, 2020
APT James: A family man and king len' hand, posted on January 7, 2021
APT James and the art of political representation, posted on February 11, 2021
APT James: Persistent politics, posted on January 21, 2021
Arrested after trying to help white customer, posted on September 6, 2018
Barbados: In 'paternal watch' over 17th-18th century Tobago, posted on May 11, 2023
Bays and battles, posted on december 8, 2022
Bitter sweet: The Tobago sugar industry, 1763-1834, posted on May 4, 2023
Blame game after France captures Tobago, posted on January 20, 2022
Breaking barricades: the women of Tobago, posted on March 9, 2023
Buccoo Historical Park: No longer Tobago's best-kept secret, posted on September 19, 2021
Canadian museum acquires Caribbean images, posted on June 19, 2019
Caribbean Agro-Economic Society, 2016
Communications in 20th century Tobago, posted on December 22, 2022
Contested terrain: Tobago 1650-1995, posted on December 22, 2021
Co-operation the emblem of traditional Tobago, posted on September 29, 2021
Crime and punishment in immediate post-emancipation Tobago, posted on January 19, 2023
Culture and carnival in Tobago, posted on September 21, 2022
Disaster and desire in Tobago: The hurricane of 1847, posted on December 30, 2021
Disaster descends on Ring Bang, posted on October 29, 2020
Discrimination and desperation in the shaping of Tobago's food culture, posted on December 16, 2020
Dr Pemberton in virtual series on Dutch presence in West Indies, posted on October 26, 2021
Driven by desire: Communities develop in post-emancipation Tobago, posted on February 1, 2023
Drunk and disorderly in 1880s Tobago, posted on September 29, 2022
Easter traditions in Tobago, posted on April 15, 2021
Efficient, adequate transportation crucial, posted on January 28, 2021
Emancipation: the journey to self-actualisation, posted on July 28, 2022
Empowering Tobago: the Tobago District Teachers' Association, posted on January 26, 2022
Eric Merton Roach, Tobago's foremost poet, posted on January 26, 2023
Europeans stamp mark of possession on Tobago, posted on May 20, 2021
Fargo's commanding presence in Trinidad and Tobago, posted on January 14, 2021
Female self-employment in 20th century Tobago, posted on January 12, 2023
Fettered freedom the Emancipation Act, 1834, posted on July 29, 2021
Fighting fires in Tobago, posted on March 11, 2021
First phase of emancipation in Tobago, posted on August 3, 2023
Flowering of visual arts in Tobago, posted on April 26, 2023
Forced and free: labour on Tobago's public roads, posted on June 9, 2022
Foreign tastebuds and decline of food traditions, posted on November 19, 2020
Forts and rivalry in Tobago, posted on June 1, 2023
Friendly societies in 19th-century Tobago, posted on October 6, 2021
From bondage to liberation: The agricultural experience, posted on February 23, 2023
From pain to pleasure: Tobago and tourism, posted on August 18, 2022
From seclusion to depopulation: Dead Bay Village, posted on November 24, 2022
Gender and employment in Tobago, 1838-1950, posted on April 21, 2022
Gendered labour in 20th-century Tobago, posted on November 4, 2021
Ghost lore: The value of Tobago's jumbie stories, posted on November 12, 2020
Gilpin - the village that disappeared, posted on December 1, 2022
Growing opportunities, 1870-1935, posted on March 15, 2023
Guardians of security: the militia in Tobago, posted on July 14, 2022
Heritage lost: Tobago's traditional houses, posted on April 20, 2023
Historian: Education system is elitist, posted on August 27, 2020
How TT Xmas has changed, posted on December 25, 2019
Identity, resistance in Tobago folk songs, posted on September 15, 2022
Imperial graft and Barbados-Tobago relations, posted on June 23, 2022
Joseph Robley's journey to wealth and power in Tobago, posted on March 31, 2021
Labour problems and trade unionism in Tobago, posted on May 5, 2022
Land-grabbing after Emancipation, posted on May 18, 2023
Late 19th-century challenges: Aid, trade, development, posted on October 5, 2022
Late 19th-century challenges: Aid, trade, development, posted on October 5, 2022
Liberated into bondage: Africans in Tobago, posted on July 6, 2022
Linked by heritage: Tobago and the Netherlands, posted on February 17, 2022
Mandate for the THA: Correcting 'the betrayal of trust', posted on September 17, 2020
Mental slavery: Strongest link in chain of enslavement, posted on July 20, 2023
Metayage a self-inflicted wound on Tobago's planter class, posted on June 17, 2021
Migration and the history of Tobago's plants, posted on April 13, 2023
Migration in 20th-century Tobago, posted on September 9, 2021
Not enough being done to promote Tobago heritage, posted on April 3, 2019
Pemberton: Stop playing victim and work, posted on November 21, 2019
Planters vs workers in post-emancipation Tobago, posted on July 22, 2021
Poor roads: Tobago's weak link 1838-1980s, posted on November 24, 2021
Post-World War II change in Tobago, posted on April 28, 2022
Power of plants in traditional Tobago yards, posted on May 6, 2021
Prelude to full emancipation in Tobagoa>, posted on July 27, 2023
Preserving the Saraka festival in Tobago, posted on March 4, 2021
Prof Samaroo's muse, posted on July 11, 2023
Public education in 20th-century Tobago, postred on March 22, 2023
Race, class and social change in 20th-century Tobago, posted on October 20, 2021
Recreation, sport and society in 20th-century Tobago, posted on October 28, 2021
Religion, resistance and adaptation in Tobago, posted on April 6, 2023
Representation: The bane of Tobago's political life, 1889-1925, posted on March 24, 2022
Resist and liberate culture in post-emancipation Tobago, posted on August 12, 2021
Restricting freedom: prison reform in post-Emancipation Tobago, posted on May 19, 2022
Scarborough explodes The Land Tax riot of 1852, posted on June 24, 2021
Security concerns before French capture of Tobago, 1781, posted on January 13, 2022
Serving injustice: JPs in post-Emancipation Tobago, posted on June 16, 2022
Social change and continuity in Tobago, 1880-1940, posted on March 17, 2022
Society in 20th-century Tobago, posted on February 9, 2023
Speyside - Tobago's first tourist centre, posted on December 29, 2022
Stamping colonial ownership: Britain shapes Tobago in her likeness, posted on May 27, 2021
Tales of Scarborough, posted on July 27, 2019
Taxation triggers 1867 riot at Mason Hall, posted on July 1, 2021
THA: Restrained but not repressed, posted on September 24, 2020
THA chief challenges health workers to set standard for productivity, posted on March 27, 2019
THA to blame, posted on August 23, 2019
The best and worst of times: Agri- and literary cultures in Tobago, 1900-1950, posted on January 6, 2022
The changing face of Tobago, posted on April 14, 2022
The contest for a development agenda, posted on October 20, 2022
The emergence of Tobago's black land-owning class, posted on June 10, 2021
The evolution of Tobago's folk culture, posted on February 3, 2022
The evolution of Tobago's food culture, posted on November 26, 2020
The forces that shaped the history of Tobago, posted on April 7, 2022
The free Africans' struggle for land space in Tobago, posted on July 15, 2021
The last days of enslavement in Tobago, posted on July 21, 2022
The Methodist Church and Development in Tobago, posted on July 25, 2018
The origins of Tobago's African population, posted on August 11, 2022
The Passionate Italian in Tobago, posted on February 11, 2021
The phenomenal women who made Tobago, posted on March 31, 2022
The political culture of APT James, posted on September 8, 2022
The rainforest, hunters and Tobago's folklore, posted on January 5, 2023
The Ring Bang saga, posted on October 22, 2020
The roots of Tobago's autonomy drive, posted on October 12, 2022
The secrets of the sea: Tobago's underwater history, posted on February 24, 2022
The Speech Bands of Tobago, posted on August 4, 2022
The Tobago Independence experience, posted on September 1, 2022
The unique village of Culloden, posted on November 17, 2022
The village shops of Tobago, posted on August 26, 2021
Tobago and the 1850s cholera pandemic, posted on June 2, 2022
Tobago's enslaved in the 18th century, posted on June 15, 2023
Tobago planters try to restrict freedom after Emancipation, posted on May 12, 2022
Tobago's 18th-century concerns, 21st-century realities, posted on December 31, 2020
Tobago's 20th-century communication woes, posted on July 12, 2018
Tobago's 20th-century economic challenges, posted on November 3, 2022
Tobago's Boxing Day culture, posted on December 3, 2020
Tobago's breadfruit story, posted on November 10, 2021
Tobago's early carnivals, posted on November 10, 2022
Tobago’s enslavement experience: Shattering the stereotypes, posted on June 27, 2023
Tobago's food culture and social bonds, posted on September 23, 2021
Tobago's heritage to have and to hold forever, posted on March 18, 2021
Tobago's iconic dirt oven, posted on March 30, 2023
Tobago's independence experience, posted on March 24, 2021
Tobago's mixed peoples, posted on March 2, 2023
Tobago's Pearl, England's celebrity, posted on September 2, 2021
Tobago's peculiar culture, posted on February 10, 2022
Tobago's Sporting Heroes, posted on December 24, 2020
Tobago's traditional Christmas spirit, posted on May 13, 2021
Tobago's transition after two world wars, posted on December 9, 2021
Tobago's triple plague, posted on July 4, 2022
Trade in Tobago's cashless society, posted on November 18, 2021
Traditional wisdom for safety and productivity, posted on April 29, 2021
Tug-of-war in Tobago: Church vs Carnival, posted on March 10, 2022
Unity by any means: Tobago's political destiny, posted on December 16, 2021
[UPDATED] Jumbie Tree falls: Culture activists say it's a sign, posted on December 2, 2020
Upheaval in Scarborough The strike of 1919, posted on July 8, 2021
Wealth, poverty and the environment in 17th-20th-century Tobago, posted on December 1, 2021
Webster-Roy condemns 'morning wuk' mentality, posted on March 29, 2019
White and black Robleys in Tobago, posted on April 8, 2021
Words of wisdom that nurtured Tobago, posted on August 19, 2021
Yards and resistance in Tobago, posted on August 25, 2022
Yoruba symposium starts tomorrow, posted on October 31, 2018