Search billions of records on Ancestry.com
   

History and Migration | The West Indies | People and Culture
Art & Carnival | Film | Literature | Politics, Gov't and Civil Service | Business | Sports | Cuisine | Religion | Social Life
POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & CIVIL SERVICE

CABRAL, George M., C.B.E. (Trinidad)

Mayor of Port of Spain: 1947-1948, and 1951-1953.

CORREIA, Eugene Francis (Guyana)

Minister of Parliament

DIAS, Francis (Guyana)

Mayor of Georgetown

FERREIRA, Clement Patrick (Guyana)

Mayor of New Amsterdam

de FREITAS, Henry Alexander, M.B.E. (Trinidad)

Port of Spain City Council: 30 years.
Alderman: 1928-1948.
Elected Deputy Mayor of Port of Spain on three occasions.
Mayor of Port of Spain: 1932-1933.
Awarded M.B.E by Queen Elizabeth: 1950.

GOMES, Albert Maria 'Bertie' (Trinidad)

Port-of-Spain City Council: 1938-1947.
Legislative Council: 1945, 1950-1956.
Executive Council: 1946.
Leader of the Party of Political Progress Groups (POPPG).
West Indies Federal House of Representatives 1958-1962.

See also the CARICOM article on Albert Gomes, and "Missing in Action,", the Caribbean Beat article by Jeremy Taylor.

GONSALVES, E.M. (Guyana)

Mayor of Georgetown

GONSALVES, Mrs. Helga (Guyana)

Mayoress of Georgetown

GONSALVES, Joseph, O.B.E. (Guyana)

Mayor of Georgetown

NETTO, Charles Gomes (Trinidad)

Deputy Mayor of Arima: 1944
Mayor of Arima: 1947-1950
Legislative Council

De NOBRIGA, George (Trinidad)

Legislative and Executive Councils: 1938-1945.

de NOBRIGA, Henry (Trinidad)

Mayor of Arima: 1916-1918.

dos SANTOS, Sir Errol Lionel, Kt. C.B.E. (Trinidad)

Errol dos Santos was Treasurer of the Colony, Commissioner of Currency, Income Tax and Estate Duties, Governor of the ICTA (Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, now UWI), Chairman of the Civil Service, of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Scheme, the Public Officer's Guarantee Fund, Local Industries Development Committee, the Agricultural Bank, the Cocoa Subsidy Board, the Trinidad Electricity Board, the Travelling Allowances committee, the Joint Control Board (Imports & Exports), the Cane Farmers' Price Control Committee, and the committee that inquired into the wages of employees in the sugar industry, and a member of the Housing Committee and the Banana Board.

He got his title of CBE in 1939, and Knight Bachelor in 1945.

Da SILVA, Eleanor (Guyana)

Minister of Parliament

Sources
Scenes from the History of the Portuguese in Guyana, by Mary Noel Menezes, RSM, London: William Goodenough House, 1986.

The Portuguese of Trinidad and Tobago: Portrait of an Ethnic Minority, by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira, St. Augustine: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1994.


History and Migration | The West Indies | People and Culture

HOME | INDEX | DIASPORA |GENEALOGY | RESEARCH