Report on Trinidad one year after independence focuses on the possibility that political life may develop along racial lines as has happened in nearby British Guiana.

Island is at present governed by Dr Eric Williams at the head of a largely black party. Indian leader of the opposition Dr Capildeo complains that although the Indian members of the population work harder than blacks they are unable to get good jobs and are treated as second class citizens; he predicts racial strife. Doctor's analysis and prediction are disputed by an Indian supporter of Dr Williams' Peoples National Movement (founded in 1955 as a multiracial party) who states that a large number of urban Indians are well integrated into Trinidadian society and claims that Capildeo's real intention is to win political power by manipulating his rural following of Hindus who still feel allegiance to India. Another danger which potentially threatens the present harmony of Trinidad is social discontent arising from widespread unemployment, although blacks in a shanty town outside Port of Spain at present seem more interested in steel bands and gang violence (long sequences with interviews on both subjects) than in politics. Solution to island's economic problems may be the projected trade association with other Caribbean states.