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"No Generation Gap: This picture, showing adults playing gaily together with their juniors, indicates what can happen when there's community togetherness and coordinated effort. This game was a prelude to the launching of the Bombay Community…

"Staring at accomplishment: The president of the Bombay Community Council (standing) calls attention to the roof of the Bombay School, which is the result of action on the part of a civic group."

" 'UNITED WE STAND': These sixteen persons have been elected by their various organisations to sit on the Bombay Village Community Council, which was launched recently."

"BOMBED OUT: Firemen putting out the last of the flames that gutted this building at 9 Ripon Road, Kingston, on Wednesday night. It is reported that at about 10:30 pm, four men travelling in a car threw gas bombs at the building owned by Warren…

The Spirit of Trinidad - Bongo. Sept. 22, 1957

11 1/2" x 14 1/2".

Extract from Trinidad Sunday Guardian, Sept. 22, 1957.

"This dance constitute one of the main features of a country wake. Dancers from miles around convene at the House of…

Jamaican percussionist, Herman 'Bongo Herman' Davis, onstage with his back-up band.

Bongo Herman in the forefront with a drum under his arm and wearing a colourful African outfit; and a group of Rastafarians - one with a drum, listens to H.I.H. Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie of Ethiopia, grandson of the late Emperor Haile Selassie I,…

A smiling Ermias Sahle Selassie playing the conga drum with Bongo Herman and other Rastafarians.

Photograph of Bonnie Carter, singing.