FYZABAD, or Faizabad, a city, district and division of British India in the United Provinces.
Fyzabad was founded about 1730 by Sa`adat Ali Khan, the first nawab wazir of Oudh, who built a hunting-lodge here.
On the outbreak of the Mutiny in 1857, the cantonment contained two regiments of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and a light field battery of artillery - all natives.
Fyzabad Composite and Vessigny High School are the teams, and they go into the challenge with confidence, and not a liitle panache.
Derek Lange,a member of the Fyzabad technical staff, said his team was eagerly looking forward to the match.
He noted that the mood of the players was at an all-time high after the 2-1 semi-final win over Naparima, but his staff has taken steps to get the players in the right frame of mind for the battle with Vessigny.
He appealed to the emotions and the existing prejudices, and it was through his Baptist style and socialist vocabulary,that he entrenched himself as the catalyst for industrial actions in the oil districts in June 1937.
Telephone lines from Fyzabad to San Fernando were severed, cutting off communication from the Fyzabad law enforcers to their counterparts.
To commemorate the events of 61 years ago, trade unions throughout Trinidad and Tobago stage a march from various points and congregate in Fyzabad, where their membership is addressed by many prominent leaders of the trade union movement.
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THE EDITOR: Fyzabad residents were not so pleasantly awakened on the morning of Wednesday October, 4 by the sound of police helicopters fashioned with spotlights and ‘the whole works.’ On looking out they also saw the faithful blimp hovering nearby.
I suppose it must certainly be needed in the Fyzabad environs where angry residents staged peaceful protests.
The powers that be must believe that the residents of Fyzabad just work within Fyzabad and that road blocks must have caused no impact nationwide.
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But, before being executed, he was taken to the prison at Fyzabad and there the storm of 1857 raised him from his cell in the alien's prison to the leadership of the Revolution.
At least in the Fyzabad district they have lost half the villages, some talukdars have lost all." 12 Therefore, it is but natural that the mutiny in Fyzabad would receive deeper hue and dimension.
He was tried for sedition, sentenced to be hanged and detained for a time in the Fyzabad prison." 14 According to the Hadith, "the ink of a scholar is holier than the blood of a martyr." The Moulvee was a rare combination of both a writer and a warrior.
Naparima beat Fyzabad 2-0 in a thrilling game at Fyzabad yesterday to retain the BGTT Secondary Schools Football League South Zone title.
Naps almost extended the lead in the 64th but Fyzabad defender Vaughn Goodridge arrived just in time to clear the ball off the line.
Fyzabad started a build-up in the 66th minute which led to one of their best chances, but Naps goalkeeper Curtis Julien pulled off a sensational save which denied Kevin Flanders of his glory.
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FYZABAD, or FAIZABAD - Online Information article about FYZABAD, or FAIZABAD(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
To the E, of Fyzabad, and now forming a suburb, is the See also:
Fyzabad was founded about 1730 by Sa'adat See also:
census of 1869 Fyzabad contained only 37,804 inhabitants; but it is now again advancing in prosperity and See also:
While the OWTU does not “own” Fyzabad, we have over the years ensured, sometimes single-handedly, that the entire nation and indeed the world, recognizes the rightful position of Fyzabad as the birthplace of the 1937 General Strike and anti-colonial revolt and that on the 19
In 1982 and 1983 there was a single celebration in Fyzabad but in 1984 those forces that did not then – and perhaps still do not – recognize Fyzabad tried to shift the celebrations out of Fyzabad.
June at a function organized by the Fyzabad Improvement Committee, and at which the OWTU received an award, the HCU President in his “feature address” attacked the leadership of the Union and engaged in a tirade of unprovoked nonsense about the OWTU.
Gardener stumbles across three bodies(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
THE bodies of three Maloney men, two of whom were brothers, were discovered by a gardener between Wednesday night and early yesterday morning off a Petrotrin oilfield road in Fyzabad — hours after the murdered men were reported missing.
The bodies of the three men who were all from Maloney Gardens, bore multiple gunshot and stab wounds.
Yesterday, crime scene investigators who cordoned off the oilfield road in Fyzabad, said Brereton’s body bore gunshot wounds to the shoulder, head and earlobe.
Ha!" That was how I was greeted by gas station attendants, casual acquaintances at 'de junction', and even by persons unknown to me, a few days after I had participated in the Labour Day march and rally at Fyzabad.
I was not surprised that Panday had once more zeroed in on me, although nothing I said at Fyzabad could be deemed anti-government or as inciting violence.
During the last general election campaign, the second person on his 'hate list' (after Patrick Manning, who was a legitimate target as leader of the PNM) was yours truly.
In 1999, TTRU was able to purchase 9.2 acres of land in South Trinidad (Fyzabad) for the purpose of erecting and establishing a small but effective educational and self-help project as well as the development of an agricultural project.
Ras Roger has constructed a two story house on the farm which is growing numerous fruits and vegetables using multi-crop farming techniques.
Senator Jones came with a mobile health unit comprised of three doctors from Cuba who gave free check-ups to 47 people in spite of torrential downpours.
On the Horizon By Allyson Sarjeant - Teacher II, Fyzabad Anglican Secondary :: Trinbago SunVibes DailyStop :: ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On the Horizon By Allyson Sarjeant - Teacher II, Fyzabad Anglican Secondary :: Trinbago SunVibes DailyStop :: ahh...sweet trinidad
Trade Unions: On the Horizon By Allyson Sarjeant - Teacher II, Fyzabad Anglican Secondary
On the Horizon By Allyson Sarjeant - Teacher II, Fyzabad Anglican Secondary
Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles on 21 January 1950 in Fyzabad, Trinidad), is a UK based popular music performer, who had a string of rhythm and blues tinged international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was born in Fyzabad, Trinidad and Tobago to Grenadian parents, and moved to England with his family at the age of eight.
In his teenage years, he sang regularly in London clubs.
