Do you know Mr.Eric Eustace Williams is the first Prime Minister of Trinidad?”
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Williams’ father was a minor civil servant, and his mother was a descendant of the French Creole elite. He was educated at Queen’s Royal College in Port of Spain, where he excelled at academics and football. He won an island scholarship in 1932 which allowed him to attend St Catherine’s Society, Oxford (which later became St Catherine’s College), where he was ranked first in the First Class of Oxford students graduating in History in 1935, while representing the university in soccer. In Inward Hunger, his autobiography, he described his experience of racism in Britain, and the impact on him of his travels in Germany after the Nazi seizure of power. In 1944 he was appointed to the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. In 1948 Williams returned to Trinidad as the Commission’s Deputy Chairman of
An estimated $11 million has been allocated in the 2009/2010 budget for reconstruction of the Prime Minister’s residence in St Ann’s. The Draft Estimates of Development Programme for 2010 said that figure was part of a $46.5 million allocation to the Office of the Prime Minister from the Infrastructure Development Fund. The Government proposes to spend $3 billion from the 2010 budget on its development programme. That sum excludes an additional $3.9 billion on development spending which is to be funded from the Infrastructure Development Fund. The largest single amount from that fund, $700 million, has been allocated to the Ministry of Planning, Housing and the Environment,while the Ministry of Works and Transport has received an allocation of $613 million. The Government also proposes to spend $15.5 million from the Infrastructure Development Fund for the restoration of Whitehall, which will become a Protocol House for visiting heads of government and state. The sum of $20 million has
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian Early life Williams’ father was a minor civil servant, and his mother was a descendant of the French Creole elite. He was educated at Queen’s Royal College in Port of Spain, where he excelled at academics and football. He won an island scholarship in 1932 which allowed him to attend St Catherine’s Society, Oxford (which later became St Catherine’s College), where he was ranked first in the First Class of Oxford students graduating in History in 1935, while representing the university in soccer. In Inward Hunger, his autobiography, he described his experience of racism in Britain, and the impact on him of his travels in Germany after the Nazi seizure of power.
