The First Thirty Years

A Retrospection

By Reginald Dumas 

What the Critics say.

“This memoir gives us a valuable source document for understanding T&T’s social and political history in the 1940s to 1960s, when the modern nation, for good and for ill, was in process of formation. And it also illuminates the early years of a distinguished son who has contributed to nation-building in so many ways and continues to do so in these troubled times.”

Professor Bridget Brereton is Professor Emerita at The UWI, specializing in Caribbean History - in UWI Today

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More excerpts from reviews by the critics.

The First Thirty Years beckons us to reflect; “to see the past as the indispensable portal to the present and the future.

And therein are indelible quotes, one offered by Dumas’ beloved mother: “Speak the truth and speak it ever/cost it what it will/he who hides the wrong/does the wrong still.”The lessons are thought-provoking and instructive, especially in an age riddled with entitlement and narcissism.”

Dr. Glenville Ashby in Newsday

“Reginald Dumas in his First Thirty Years a Retrospection tells the fascinating story of the middle class in Trinidad and Tobago. He tells another story; that of conflicts, struggles, misunderstandings through those crucial years during which we built a State.”

Marion O’Callaghan Social Anthropologist, formerly Director of Social Science Programmes, UNESCO -

from Newsday