PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Trinidad and Tobago yesterday joined the rest of the international community in observing the UN-sponsored International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Foreign Affairs Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon says that the occasion allows for self-reflection, self-exploration and the celebration of the indomitable spirit of the African ancestors who were forced to endure immense savagery during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as well as the period of slavery.

She says in tribute to "the millions of victims of the horrific crime," the Patrick Manning administration is facilitating the publication is various articles on the slave trade and slavery by national historians and authors.