{"id":969,"date":"2024-08-21T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/trinidad-is-redrawing-its-coat-of-arms-to-remove-columbus-three-famous-ships\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T01:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:01:08","slug":"trinidad-is-redrawing-its-coat-of-arms-to-remove-columbus-three-famous-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/trinidad-is-redrawing-its-coat-of-arms-to-remove-columbus-three-famous-ships\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus\u2019 three famous ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island\u2019s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Christopher Columbus\u2019 three ships \u2013 the Pinta, the Ni\u00f1a and the Santa Mar\u00eda \u2013 will be replaced with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument that originated in the eastern Caribbean island.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Prime Minister Keith Rowley made the announcement on Sunday to a standing ovation, saying the coat of arms would be reconfigured before late September.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            \u201cThat should signal that we are on our way to removing the colonial vestiges that we have in our constitution,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The current coat of arms also features hummingbirds, a palm tree and a scarlet ibis, Trinidad\u2019s national bird.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Rowley\u2019s announcement comes roughly a week before Trinidad and Tobago is scheduled to hold a public hearing on whether certain statues, signs and monuments should be removed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The upcoming change is part of a worldwide movement that aims to eradicate symbols of the colonial era,\u00a0with statues of Columbus removed or toppled across the US in recent years.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Columbus arrived in Trinidad and Tobago in 1498.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Trinidad and Tobago are redrawing the island\u2019s coat of arms for the first time since its creation in 1962 to remove references to European colonization in a move that many are celebrating. Christopher Columbus\u2019 three ships \u2013 the Pinta, the Ni\u00f1a and the Santa Mar\u00eda \u2013 will be replaced with the steelpan, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}