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PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD, July 10, 2003: More than 158 years after the first Indians arrived in Trinidad and Tobago, plans are afoot to restore the island where more than 200,000 indentured Indian laborers were brought to work on sugar plantations. The project, which will be completed in three phases, is expected to cost US$1.8 million, and will reflect the period 1869 to 1917. The restoration work is expected to be finished in 2005. After African slaves were freed by an Act of the British Parliament on August 1, 1838, some 217,000 Indian laborers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were brought here by the British from 1845 to 1917 to work on the sugar plantations.

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