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GUADELOUPE, June 2, 2011 (The Guardian of Trinidad): People of Indian Origin living on the island of Guadeloupe, which is part of the Republic of France, celebrated the arrival of Indian indentured workers to that country last weekend. Vayalar Ravi, the Indian minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and minister of Civil Aviation, opened a memorial dedicated to the Indian community that arrived on December 25, 1854. This was the first time an Indian minister of Government visited the island for such an event since the indentured workers arrived in Guadeloupe more than 150 years ago. On Sunday Ravi joined Bernier Laurent, the mayor of Saint-Francois, Guadeloupe and inaugurated a statue of Mahatma Gandhi.

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