List of Trinidad and Tobago-related articles
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The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

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  • .tt
    .tt
    .tt is the country code top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.The Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre allows registrations under tt for second-level domains, and for third-level domains under the following domains: co.tt,...

     – Internet
    Internet
    The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

     country code top-level domain
    Country code top-level domain
    A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

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  • A. N. R. Robinson
    A. N. R. Robinson
    Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, OCC, TC was the third President of Trinidad and Tobago, serving from 19 March 1997 to 17 March 2003. He was also Trinidad and Tobago's third Prime Minister, serving in that capacity from 18 December 1986 to 17 December 1991...

  • A. P. T. James
    A. P. T. James
    Alphonso Philbert Theophilus "Fargo" James , born in Black Rock, Tobago, was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1946. He served in the Legislative Council until 1961 when he was defeated by A.N.R. Robinson . James was known as "Fargo", after a brand of...

  • A. R. F. Webber
    A. R. F. Webber
    Albert Raymond Forbes Webber was a Caribbean author from Trinidad and Tobago. He was author of Those That Be in Bondage: A Tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters and Centenary history and handbook of British Guiana....

  • Aaron Armstrong
    Aaron Armstrong
    Aaron Nigel Armstrong is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.Armstrong attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he ran for the Florida Gators track and field team in NCAA competition...

  • Adesh Samaroo
    Adesh Samaroo
    Adesh Samaroo is a Trinidadian chutney soca singer born in Tacarigua in central Trinidad. He gained notice on the local scene in late 2002 with his song "Rum Till I Die" from the album of the same name....

  • Adrian Cola Rienzi
    Adrian Cola Rienzi
    Adrian Cola Rienzi was a Trinidad and Tobago trade unionist, politician and lawyer. He founded both the Oilfields Workers Trade Union and the All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, and was involved in the establishment of three other trade unions...

  • Advanced Community Television Station
  • Afro-Trinidadian people
    Afro-Trinidadian people
    Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian people are people of Trinidad and Tobagonian descent who are largely of African descent. Black, Negro or Creole are common terms used to describe Afro-Trinidadians. Social interpretations of race in Trinidad and Tobago is often used to dictate who is of African...

  • Air Caribbean
    Air Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago)
    In 1993 another airline called "Air Caribbean" appeared. It was based at Piarco International Airport, Trinidad and Tobago, and used YS-11 aircraft for the first five years. The airline seemed to be doing reasonably well until the arrival of ageing Boeing 737 aircraft, in July 1998. These...

  • Albert Gomes
    Albert Gomes
    Albert Maria Gomes , a Trinidad and Tobago unionist, politician, and writer of Portuguese descent, was the first Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He was the founder of the Political Progress Groups and later led the Party of Political Progress Groups...

  • Alfred Claud Hollis
    Alfred Claud Hollis
    Sir Alfred Claud Hollis, GCMG, CBE was British administrator who served as British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar between 1923 and 1929 and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1930 and 1936 and author of a historical account of Spanish Trinidad.Hollis came into conflict with Arthur Andrew...

  • All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union
  • All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union
    All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union
    All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, founded by Adrian Cola Rienzi was the major sugar workers' trade union and the predominant Indo-Trinidadian voice in organised labour in Trinidad and Tobago between the 1930s and 1970s...

  • Alphonso Theodore Roberts
    Alphonso Theodore Roberts
    -Early years:Born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on September 18, 1937, Roberts attended St. George's Anglican School and then St. Vincent Boy's Grammar School. While at the Grammar School, Roberts excelled in both soccer and cricket and, upon the recommendation of cricket great Sir Everton...

  • Americas
    Americas
    The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

    • North America
      North America
      North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

      • North Atlantic Ocean
        • West Indies
          • Caribbean Sea
            Caribbean Sea
            The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....

            • Antilles
              Antilles
              The Antilles islands form the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north and west, including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the...

              • Lesser Antilles
                Lesser Antilles
                The Lesser Antilles are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America...

                • Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
                  Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
                  This is a list of islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic republic in the southern Caribbean.-Bocas Islands:The Bocas Islands lie between Trinidad and Venezuela, in the Bocas del Dragón...

  • Anaconda
    Anaconda
    An anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America. Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.Anaconda...

  • Andira inermis
    Andira inermis
    Andira inermis is a nitrogen-fixing tree native to the area from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America ; it has been introduced to the Caribbean, the Antilles, Florida, and Africa...

  • André Alexis
    André Alexis
    André Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....

  • André Tanker
    André Tanker
    André Michael Tanker was a Trinidad and Tobago musician and composer.-Person:...

  • Andy Ganteaume
    Andy Ganteaume
    Andrew Gordon Ganteaume is a West Indian former cricketer who played as an opening batsman and occasional wicketkeeper. He was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Anglo-America
    Anglo-America
    Anglo-America is a region in the Americas in which English is a main language, or one which has significant British historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural links...

  • Angus Eve
    Angus Eve
    Angus Eve is a former Trinidadian football player, who is currently a coach for Ma Pau SC of Trinidad's Professional Football League. He is his country's most capped player of all time....

  • Anhinga
    Anhinga
    The Anhinga , sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, American Darter, or Water Turkey, is a water bird of the warmer parts of the Americas. The word "anhinga" comes from the Brazilian Tupi language and means devil bird or snake bird.It is a cormorant-like bird with an average body length of , a...

  • Anilius scytale
  • Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association
    Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association
    The Anjuman Sunnat-ul-Jamaat Association was founded in 1936. It is the largest and most influential Muslim organisation of Trinidad and Tobago. Its president is Imam Yacoob Ali. As of 1987, it operated seven schools in Trinidad and Tobago....

  • Ansil Elcock
    Ansil Elcock
    Ansil Elcock is a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago. He notably played for MLS team Columbus Crew between 1997 and 2001 , and currently plays as a defender for Tobago United...

  • Anslem Douglas
    Anslem Douglas
    Anslem Douglas is a musician and composer from Trinidad and Tobago, most famous for the hit single "Who Let the Dogs Out?"- Biography :Anslem Douglas first became interested in music watching folk performers at the local community center in his native village of La Romain, in Trinidad...

  • Anthony Joseph
    Anthony Joseph
    Anthony Joseph is a British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer.Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised by his grandparents. He began writing as a young child and cites his main influences as the Calypso, surrealism, jazz, the spiritual Baptist church that his grandparents attended, and the...

  • Anthony Wolfe
    Anthony Wolfe
    Anthony Wolfe C.M. is a Trinidadian footballer who plays as a midfielder for the North East Stars in the TT Pro League. Club career =...

  • Antilles
    Antilles
    The Antilles islands form the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north and west, including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the...

  • Anton Pierre
    Anton Pierre
    Anton Pierre is a football defender from Trinidad and Tobago. He currently plays for Defence Force. He obtained 52 caps and scored 1 goal for the national team between 1996 and 2005...

  • Archie Wiles
    Archie Wiles
    Charles Archibald Wiles - A useful middle-order batsman whose first-class career spanned the years 1920 to 1936, Archie Wiles remains the second oldest Test debutant for West Indies. He was 40 years and 345 days old when he appeared in the second Test of 1933 against England and is surpassed in...

  • Area code 868
    Area code 868
    The area code +1 868 is a composite part of the telephone numbering plan for Trinidad and Tobago, also known as the National Numbering Plan. Area code +1 868 is part of a system used for assigning telephone numbers in Trinidad and Tobago, and functions as a part of the North American Numbering Plan...

  • Arena Massacre
    Arena Massacre
    The Arena Massacre took place on December 1, 1699 in Trinidad. It resulted in the death of several hundred Amerindians, Roman Catholic priests connected with the mission of San Francisco de los Arenales and the Spanish Governor José de León y Echales and all but one member of his party by rebel...

  • Arima Stadium
    Arima Stadium
    Arima Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Arima Fire FC. The stadium holds 9,500 people. The stadium's real name is the Larry Gomes Stadium....

  • Arima
    Arima
    The Royal Borough of Arima is the fourth largest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Located east of the capital, Port of Spain, Arima supports the only organised indigenous community in the country, the Santa Rosa Carib Community and is the seat of the Carib Queen...

  • Aripo
  • Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago
    Arouca, Trinidad and Tobago
    Arouca is a town in the East-West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago located east of Port of Spain, along the Eastern Main Road. It is located west of Arima, east of Tunapuna and Tacarigua, south of Lopinot, and north of Piarco. It is governed by the Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation...

  • Arrow (musician)
    Arrow (musician)
    Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell MBE was a calypso and soca musician who performed under the stage name Arrow, and is regarded as the first superstar of soca from Montserrat.-Early years:...

  • Arthur Andrew Cipriani
    Arthur Andrew Cipriani
    Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani was a [Trinidad and Tobago] labour leader and politician. He served as mayor of Port of Spain, elected member of the Legislative Council, leader of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association and founder of the Trinidad Labour Party.Cipriani served with the West Indies...

  • Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
  • Asa Wright Nature Centre
    Asa Wright Nature Centre
    The Asa Wright Nature Centre and Lodge is a nature resort and scientific research station in the Arima Valley of the Northern Range in Trinidad and Tobago. The Centre is one of the top birdwatching spots in the Caribbean; a total of 159 species of birds have been recorded there...

  • Atiba Hutchinson
    Atiba Hutchinson
    Atiba Hutchinson is a professional Canadian soccer player who plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie.-Club career:...

  • Atlas of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ato Boldon Stadium
    Ato Boldon Stadium
    The Ato Boldon Stadium, located in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago, is named for eight-time Olympic and World Championship medal winner and 1997 200 m World Champion, Ato Boldon. The stadium was constructed for the 2001 U-17 World Cup which was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago. It also hosted games from...

  • Ato Boldon
    Ato Boldon
    Ato Jabari Boldon is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis, have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current national record holder in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events...

  • Ato Modibo
    Ato Modibo
    Ato Stephens is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specialises in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2003 CAC Championships, and took the silver at the 2005 edition...

  • Atractus trilineatus
    Atractus trilineatus
    Atractus trilineatus, the three-lined ground snake, is a small burrowing colubrid snake.-Description:Adults may attain 225 mm in total length, with a short tail, 15 mm . Dorsally they are brown with three or four darker longitudinal sripes; ventrally they are either uniform white, or have a few...

  • Attila the Hun (calypsonian)
    Attila the Hun (calypsonian)
    Attila the Hun , was a calypsonian from Trinidad.-Person:Atilla the Hun began singing in 1911 and was at his most prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the pioneers in spreading awareness of calypso beyond its birthplace in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Audubon's Shearwater
    Audubon's Shearwater
    Audubon's Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri, is a common tropical seabird from the family Procellariidae. Sometimes called Dusky-backed Shearwater, the scientific name of this species commemorates the French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier....

  • Aurtis Whitley
    Aurtis Whitley
    Aurtis Whitley is a Trinidad and Tobago footballer who plays as a midfielder for W Connection F.C. in the TT Pro League and current captain of the Trinidad and Tobago national football team.-Club career:...

  • Austin "Jack" Warner
  • Austin Stoker
    Austin Stoker
    Austin Stoker is an American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired, 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13...

  • Avery John
    Avery John
    Avery John is a Trinidadian soccer player.-Youth and College:John attended Vessigny [Antilles] Government Secondary School and then Presentation College, and played college soccer for Yavapai College in Arizona and American University in Washington, DC...


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  • Babla & Kanchan
    Babla & Kanchan
    Babla & Kanchan were an Indian husband-wife musical group best known for work in the chutney music and Desi music genres. They performed together for forty years until Kanchan died in 2004...

  • Banwari Trace
    Banwari Trace
    Banwari Trace, an Archaic site in southwestern Trinidad, is presumably the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean. The site has revealed two separate periods of occupation; one between 7200 and 6100 BP and the other between 6100 BP and 5500 BP.-Origins:Dated to about 5000 BCE or 7000 B.P ,...

  • Band of Brothers
    Band of Brothers
    Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part, 11-hour television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen E. Ambrose. The executive producers were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who had collaborated on the World War II film Saving Private Ryan...

  • Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago
    Barataria, Trinidad and Tobago
    Barataria is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It is just east of Port of Spain and Laventille and west of San Juan. It is part of the East-West Corridor.Barataria falls under the San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation....

  • Barbara Eve Harris
    Barbara Eve Harris
    Barbara Eve Harris is a Canadian actress. She was born on March 8, 1959 in Tobago She played Agent Lang on the show Prison Break. She has also guest-starred on such shows as Private Practice, JAG, Commander in Chief, ER, CSI: Miami, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Cold Case, Eureka and The West Wing,...

  • Bare-eyed Thrush
    Bare-eyed Thrush
    The Bare-eyed Thrush, Spectacled Thrush, or Yellow-eyed Thrush , is a resident breeding bird in the Lesser Antilles and in South America from Colombia and Venezuela south and east to northern Brazil...

  • Bas Balkissoon
    Bas Balkissoon
    Bas Balkissoon is a politician in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Toronto city councillor representing Ward 41 in northeast area of Scarborough, Balkissoon won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on November 24, 2005 as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Scarborough—Rouge...

  • Basdeo Panday
    Basdeo Panday
    Basdeo Panday was the 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001 and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976–1977, 1978–1986, 1989–1995 and 2001–2010. He was first elected to Parliament in 1976 as the Member for Couva North. He is the former...

  • Beetham Estate Gardens
    Beetham Estate Gardens
    Beetham Estate Garden is a neighbourhood in eastern Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago south of Laventille and northeast of Sea Lots between the Beetham Highway and the Eastern Main Road....

  • Beetham Highway
    Beetham Highway
    The Beetham Highway is a major highway in Trinidad and Tobago. It runs from Barataria into downtown Port of Spain where it meets Wrightson Road. It was constructed between 1955 and 1956....

  • Ben Sealey
    Ben Sealey
    Benjamin James Sealey - An attacking, middle-order batsman, a medium-pace, leg-break bowler and an athletic fielder anywhere on the pitch, Ben Sealey’s career spanned the years 1924 to 1941. Despite once turning out for a ‘Barbados Born’ side against the Rest of West Indies, he was a Trinidad...

  • Bernard Julien
    Bernard Julien
    Bernard Denis Julien played 24 Tests and 12 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.He played in England for Kent and joined Packers World Series in 1977. He scored a century at Lords vs England in the 1973 test....

  • Bert Achong
    Bert Achong
    Bert Geoffrey Achong is best known for co-discovering the Epstein-Barr virus through use of electron microscopy. After excelling in school in Trinidad, Achong enrolled at University College Dublin, where he received his medical degree...

  • Bhadase Maraj
    Bhadase Maraj
    Bhadase Sagan Maraj was a Trinidad and Tobago politician, religious leader and businessman. He founded the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha in 1952, which grew into the major Hindu organisation in Trinidad and Tobago.-Early life:...

  • Billy Ocean
    Billy Ocean
    Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...

  • Black Power Revolution
    Black Power Revolution
    The Black Power Revolution, also known as the "Black Power Movement", 1970 Revolution, Black Power Uprising and February Revolution, was an attempt by a number of social elements, people and interest groups in Trinidad and Tobago to force socio-political change.-History:Between 1968 and 1970 the...

  • Black Stalin
    Black Stalin
    Black Stalin is a leading calypsonian.Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, to George and Elcina Calliste ,He is one of four children. Stalin began singing calypso in 1959, but did not join a calypso tent until 1962 when he joined the Southern Brigade...

  • Black-crowned Night Heron
    Black-crowned Night Heron
    The Black-crowned Night Heron commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia .-Description:Adults are...

  • Blanchisseuse
    Blanchisseuse
    Blanchisseuse is a village in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located about midway along the north coast of Trinidad on the northern slope of the Northern Range, about 24 km north of Arima....

  • Bmobile
  • Boat-billed Heron
    Boat-billed Heron
    The Boat-billed Heron - colloquially known as the Boatbill - is an atypical member of the heron family, and was formerly thought to be in a monotypic family, Cochlearidae....

  • Boca del Serpiente
    Boca del Serpiente
    The Serpent's Mouth is a strait lying between Icacos Point in southwest Trinidad and Tobago and the north coast of Venezuela. It leads from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Paria. It is also known as the Columbus Channel....

  • Bocas del Dragón
    Bocas del Dragón
    The Bocas del Dragón is the name of the series of straits separating the Gulf of Paria from the Caribbean Sea. There are four Bocas, from west to east they are:...

  • Bothrops atrox
    Bothrops atrox
    Bothrops atrox is a venomous pitviper species found in the tropical lowlands of northern South America east of the Andes. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Description:...

  • Brazilian Agouti
    Brazilian Agouti
    The Brazilian Agouti, Dasyprocta leporina, is a South American agouti species from the family Dasyproctidae.It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad & Tobago and Brazil.It has also been introduced to the Lesser Antilles...

  • Brent Rahim
    Brent Rahim
    Brent Rahim is a football midfielder from Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently a free agent after leaving San Juan Jabloteh to finish his degree in sports psychology from UConn. Rahim did completed his degree in December 2006 after taking a hiatus from college to pursue professional and...

  • Brent Sancho
    Brent Sancho
    Brent Sancho is a Trinidadian soccer player who currently plays for Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division.-College:Sancho spent his college years playing for St...

  • Brian Lara Stadium
    Brian Lara Stadium
    Brian Lara Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago that is currently under construction. When completed in 2007, it will be used mostly for cricket matches and was supposed to host matches during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, however ongoing delays in construction have...

  • Brian Lara
    Brian Lara
    Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...

  • Brown Booby
    Brown Booby
    The Brown Booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. The adult brown booby reaches about in length. Its head and upper body are covered in dark brown, with the remainder being a contrasting white. The juvenile form is gray-brown with darkening on the head, wings and tail...

  • Brown Pelican
    Brown Pelican
    The Brown Pelican is the smallest of the eight species of pelican, although it is a large bird in nearly every other regard. It is in length, weighs from and has a wingspan from .-Range and habits:...

  • Bryan Davis
    Bryan Davis
    Bryan Allan Davis is a former West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1965. He later qualified for Glamorgan playing in the championship winning side in 1969....

  • Buenos Ayres
    Buenos Ayres
    Buenos Ayres is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in southwestern Trinidad, north of Erin and southeast of Point Fortin. Buenos Ayres is the hometown of the calypsonian Cro Cro. The Erin Savannas, one of the last remaining natural savannas in Trinidad and Tobago is located just east...

  • Bunji Garlin
    Bunji Garlin
    Bunji Garlin July 14, 1978 is a Reggae Soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His real name is Ian Alvarez. He is of saint Lucian and Venezuelan descent. He married fellow Soca artist Fay-Ann Lyons on December 23, 2006, daughter of legendary Soca singer Superblue...

  • Burrokeet
    Burrokeet
    The Burrokeet is a character of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival in the Caribbean Islands....

  • Butler Party
    Butler Party
    The British Empire Citizens' and Workers' Home Rule Party, also known as the Butler Home Rule Party and more commonly as the Butler Party, were a series of political parties in Trinidad and Tobago organised by T.U.B. Butler.-History:...

  • BWIA West Indies Airways
    BWIA West Indies Airways
    BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as "B-wee", was the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago. BWIA was, at the end of its operations, the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean, operating direct services to the USA, Canada, and the UK...


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  • C. L. R. James
    C. L. R. James
    Cyril Lionel Robert James , who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts...

  • Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago
    Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Cable Company of Trinidad and Tobago or the Trinidad & Tobago Trans-Cable Co. Ltd, a division of Intercomm Holdings , is the leading Cable TV and Broadband provider in Trinidad and Tobago...

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  • Caledonia AIA
    Caledonia AIA
    Caledonia AIA is a Trinidad and Tobagon football team playing at the top level in the TT Pro League. It is based in Malabar. Their home stadium is Larry Gomes Stadium.-History:...

  • Calinda
    Calinda
    Calinda is a martial art, as well as kind of folk music and dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. Calinda is the French spelling, and the Spanish equivalent is calenda; it is a kind of stick-fighting commonly seen practiced during Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Calypso jazz
  • Calypso music
    Calypso music
    Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...

  • Calypso Rose
    Calypso Rose
    McArtha Linda Sandy-Lewis, better known as Calypso Rose is a Tobagonian calypsonian.She began writing songs at the age of 15, and has written over 800 songs. In 1966 she wrote the song Fire in Me Wire, which has since become a calypso anthem...

  • Calypso tent
    Calypso tent
    Calypso tents are venues in which calypsonians perform during the Carnival season. They usually are cinema halls, community centers, or other indoor buildings which have seating and stage arrangements to host the entertainers, guests and patrons; or outdoor shows which are held in parks or, more...

  • Calypso War
    Calypso War
    War is a calypso form that has existed since at least the turn of the twentieth century. Originally it was sung in patois. The classic War form is an eight-line stanza, the first four lines in a minor key, then modulating into the major, and returning to the minor with the refrain "santimanite"...

  • Calypsonian
    Calypsonian
    A calypsonian , originally known as the chantwell is a musician, from the Anglophone Caribbean, who sings songs called calypso. Calypsos are musical renditions having their origins in the West African griot tradition...

  • Canaan, Tobago
    Canaan, Tobago
    Canaan is a small village in southwestern Tobago situated about 5 minutes from Crown Point Airport, and the popular beaches of Store Bay and Pigeon Point. It is between the towns of Bon Accord and Lowlands...

  • Canboulay Riots
    Canboulay Riots
    The Canboulay Riots riots by the descendants of freed slaves in the cities of Trinidad and Tobago against attempts by the British police to crack down on aspects of the celebration of Carnival. The riots occurred in February 1881 in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and in the southern...

  • Canboulay
    Canboulay
    Canboulay is a precursor to Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. The festival is also where calypso music has its roots. It was originally a harvest festival, at which drums, singing, dancing and chanting were an integral part...

  • Candice Scott
    Candice Scott
    Candice Henrietta Scott is a track and field athlete who is a hammer throw specialist from Trinidad and Tobago.Her personal best throw is 71.45 metres, achieved in May 2005 in Marietta, Georgia....

  • Cane Toad
    Cane Toad
    The Cane Toad , also known as the Giant Neotropical Toad or Marine Toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean...

  • Capital of Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain
    Port of Spain
    Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...

     on Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

  • Caribbean
    Caribbean
    The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

  • Caribbean Airlines
    Caribbean Airlines
    Caribbean Airlines Limited operating as Caribbean Airlines is the national airline of Trinidad and Tobago. The airline is also flag carrier to Jamaica through its subsidiary, Caribbean Airlines-Air Jamaica Transition Limited or Air Jamaica....

  • Caribbean Beat
    Caribbean Beat
    ' is a bimonthly magazine, published in Port of Spain, Trinidad, covering the arts, culture and society of the Caribbean, with a focus on the region's English-speaking territories...

  • Caribbean Carnival
    Caribbean Carnival
    Caribbean Carnival is the term used for a number of events that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually.The Caribbean's Carnivals all have several common themes all originating from Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, based on folklore, culture, religion,and tradition, not on amusement...

  • Caribbean Communications Network
    Caribbean Communications Network
    The Caribbean Communications Network Ltd. also known as the "CCN Group" Ltd., is a subsidiary of ONE Caribbean Media Limited. In December, 2005 both the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Communications Network and the Barbados-based Nation Corporation entered into a merger agreement for...

  • Caribbean Community
    Caribbean Community
    The Caribbean Community is an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy...

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  • Caribbean Development Company
    Caribbean Development Company
    The Carib Brewery is a brewery headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago. It produces Carib and Stag beers and a range of Carib Shandy products...

  • Caribbean New Media Group
    Caribbean New Media Group
    The Caribbean New Media Group is a state-run media company in Trinidad and Tobago. The company operates three radio stations: Sweet 100.1, Next 99.1 and "Talk City 91.1", as well as a television station CNMG-TV.They also operate television services on channels 9, 13, and 6. Some of the station's...

  • Caribbean Sea
    Caribbean Sea
    The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....

  • Cariso
    Cariso
    Cariso is a kind of Trinidadian folk music, and an important ancestor of calypso music. The word may come from carieto, a Carib word that means joyous song. Cariso used satirical and insulting lyrics, and is related to the picong tradition. Cariso singers, called chantwells, sang primarily in...

  • Carl Herrera
    Carl Herrera
    Carl Víctor Herrera Alleyne is a retired Venezuelan basketball player. A power forward, he was part of the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association championship teams of the mid-1990s....

  • Carla Foderingham
    Carla Foderingham
    Carla Foderingham is a former television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. She is a former anchorwoman at CCN TV6, Gayelle - The Channel and Cable News Channel 3. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Film Company of Trinidad and Tobago.Carla began her television...

  • Carlos Edwards
    Carlos Edwards
    Akenhaton Carlos Edwards , more commonly known as Carlos Edwards, is a Trinidadian footballer who plays for Ipswich Town as a midfielder.-Club career:...

  • Carnival Road March
    Carnival Road March
    The Carnival Road March is the musical composition played most often at the "judging points" along the parade route during Carnival. The Road March title is among the most prestigious titles in Trinidad Carnival. In Trinidad and Tobago the most Road march titles have gone to the Mighty Sparrow and...

  • Caroni River (Trinidad and Tobago)
    Caroni River (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The Caroni River is the largest river in Trinidad and Tobago, running for from its origins in the Northern Range on the island of Trinidad, through the northern lowlands of the Caroni Plains and enters the Gulf of Paria at the Caroni Swamp....

  • Caroni Swamp
    Caroni Swamp
    342px|thumb|Cook's Tree Boa in Caroni SwampThe Caroni Swamp is the largest mangrove wetland in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located on the west coast of Trinidad, south of Port of Spain and northwest of Chaguanas, where the Caroni River meets the Gulf of Paria....

  • Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago
    Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago
    Caroni County occupies in the west central part of the island of Trinidad, the larger island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It lies south and southwest of Saint George County, west of Nariva County and north of Victoria County. To the west it is bounded by the Gulf of Paria. County...

  • Carson Charles
    Carson Charles
    Carson Charles is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Minister of Works and Transportation. He is the political leader of the National Alliance for Reconstruction ....

  • Castara
    Castara
    Castara is a picturesque seaside village on the Leeward coast of the island of Tobago, the smaller of the two islands in the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago...

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  • Cattle Egret
    Cattle Egret
    The Cattle Egret is a cosmopolitan species of heron found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard its two subspecies as full species, the Western Cattle Egret and the Eastern Cattle Egret...

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  • CCN TV6
    CCN TV6
    The Caribbean Communications Network Television 6 ' is the largest private television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The station operates an analog composite NTSC 525 television system, broadcasting on channels 6 and 18 in the island of Trinidad, channel 5 on the Flow Cable System and channel...

  • Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago
    Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago
    The coastal area known as Cedros lies on a peninsula at the South-Western end of the island of Trinidad. Located at the tip of the peninsula, Cedros lies mere miles off the coast of Venezuela...

  • Central Range, Trinidad and Tobago
    Central Range, Trinidad and Tobago
    The Central Range is a mountain range on the island of Trinidad. It extends diagonally across the island and is a low-lying range with swampy areas rising to rolling hills...

  • Chacachacare
    Chacachacare
    Chacachacare is an abandoned island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago located at 10° 41' north latitude and 61° 45' west longitude. The island is 3.642 km² in area. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela...

  • Chaguanas
    Chaguanas
    The Borough of Chaguanas is the largest municipality 2000 census) and fastest-growing town in Trinidad and Tobago. Located in Central Trinidad about south of Port of Spain. It grew in size due to its proximity to the Woodford Lodge sugar refinery. It remained a minor town until the 1980s when it...

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  • Chalkdust
    Chalkdust
    Hollis Urban Lester Liverpool, better known as Chalkdust is a leading calypsonian from Trinidad and Tobago. He has been singing calypso since 1967 and has recorded over 300 calypsos....

  • Charles Elliot
    Charles Elliot
    Sir Charles Elliot, KCB , was a British naval officer, diplomat, and colonial administrator. He became the first administrator of Hong Kong in 1841 while serving as both Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China...

  • Charlie Davis (cricketer)
  • Charlotteville
    Charlotteville
    Charlotteville is a village lying on the north-eastern tip of Tobago on Man-o-war Bay.First European settlers to the area arrived 1633, with more settlers arrived in 1639. The history of the village is closely linked to sugar farming, and Charlotteville's deep water harbour was also of importance...

  • Charran Singh
    Charran Singh
    Charran Kamkaran Singh is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1960.In his debut Test at Queen's Park Oval, Singh's run out dismissal was the trigger for the crowd to start a riot.-References:...

  • Cheryl Byron
    Cheryl Byron
    Cheryl Byron was a visual artist. She started her studies in her native land, Trinidad & Tobago. There she also studied dance with Neville Shepard and acted with the Caribbean Theater Guild....

  • Chironius carinatus
    Chironius carinatus
    Chironius carinatus, commonly known as the machete savane, is a very large, but slender colubrid snake. Although nonvenomous, this snake is well known for its aggressive behaviour.-Geographic range:...

  • Chironius multiventris
    Chironius multiventris
    Chironius multiventris, commonly known as the long-tailed machete savane, is species of colubrid snake.-Description:The body is elongate, and strongly laterally compressed. The tail is long, as the common name implies. The dorsum is olive to light brown. There is a narrow whitish, black-edged,...

  • Chironius scurrulus
    Chironius scurrulus
    Chironius scurrulus, commonly known as the smooth machete savane, is a large slender colubrid snake. It is also known as Wagler's sipo.-References:...

  • Chris Birchall
    Chris Birchall
    Christopher "Chris" Birchall CM is an English-born Trinidadian footballer who currently plays in midfield for Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Galaxy....

  • Churchill-Roosevelt Highway
    Churchill-Roosevelt Highway
    The Churchill–Roosevelt Highway is the major east-west highway in Trinidad and Tobago. It runs for from Barataria in the west to Wallerfield in the east where it ends in the former US Army base on Fort Read. It crosses the north-south Uriah Butler Highway at Valsayn...

  • Chutney music
    Chutney music
    Chutney music is a form indigenous to the southern Caribbean, originating in Trinidad. It derives elements from traditional Indian music and popular Trinidadian Soca music.-History:...

  • Citizens' Alliance
    Citizens' Alliance
    The Citizens' Alliance is a defunct political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Former finance minister Wendell Mottley was leader and businessman Peter George was deputy leader...


  • City Gate (Port of Spain)
    City Gate (Port of Spain)
    City Gate is the main terminal for the buses and maxi taxis in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the former Trinidad Government Railway terminal on South Quay. It is slated to serve as the terminal for the proposed rapid rail system....

  • CL Financial
    CL Financial
    CL Financial – before its financial breakdown that became evident after a liquidity crisis and government intervention in 2009 – was the largest privately held conglomerate in Trinidad and Tobago and one of the largest privately held corporations in the entire Caribbean...

  • Clayton Ince
    Clayton Ince
    Clayton Ince is a Trinidadian football goalkeeper who had lengthy spells in the English Football League at Crewe Alexandra and Walsall...

  • Clifford Roach
    Clifford Roach
    Clifford Archibald Roach was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England....

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  • Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago
    Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago
    The coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago was designed by a committee formed in 1962 to select the symbols that would be representative of the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The committee included noted artist Carlisle Chang and the late designer George Bailey...

  • Cocoa Panyol
    Cocoa Panyol
    The Cocoa Panyols are an ethnic group in Trinidad & Tobago. The name comes from the patois word for Spanish, espagnol, or even Spanish word Español and reflects the historical association between the group and the cultivation of cacao in Trinidad .This community in Trinidad originated in the late...

  • Collared Peccary
    Collared Peccary
    The collared peccary is a species of mammal in the family Tayassuidae that is found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly referred to as javelina, saíno or báquiro, although these terms are also used to describe other species in the family...

  • Colleen Holder
    Colleen Holder
    Colleen Holder is a television news presenter and producer in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.Colleen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communication with a major in Radio Production from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 1997...

  • Collin Samuel
    Collin Samuel
    Collin Samuel is a Trinidad and Tobago football player. He last played for Luton Town in the Conference National.-Club:...

  • Colm Imbert
    Colm Imbert
    Colm Peter Imbert is a politician from Trinidad and Tobago, a member of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago and the People's National Movement...

  • Columbus Channel
    Columbus Channel
    The Columbus Channel is the narrow body of water between the south coast of the island of Trinidad and the Venezuelan mainland. The Columbus Channel connects the Gulf of Paria with the Atlantic Ocean. It is also known as the Serpent's Mouth....

  • Columbus Communications
    Columbus Communications
    Columbus Communications is a cable television and telecommunications company based in Freeport, Bahamas, serving markets in the Caribbean and Latin America....

  • Committee for Transformation and Progress
  • Commonwealth of Nations
    Commonwealth of Nations
    The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

  • Communications in Trinidad and Tobago
    Communications in Trinidad and Tobago
    Telephones - Area Code:Telephones - Mobile Provider:Digicel & Bmobile TT Telephones - Landline Provider:TSTTTelephones - main lines in use:209,000 Telephones - mobile cellular:1,500,000...

  • Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
    Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago
    Communist Party of Trinidad and Tobago, a pro-Albanian marxist-leninist political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party was founded in August 1979. claims it was founded by Hardial Bains, the leader of Communist Party of Canada...

  • Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago
    Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago is a non-profit association representing people in the music industry of Trinidad and Tobago. COTT was incorporated in 1984 and began operating in 1985....

  • Cornelius Alfred Moloney
    Cornelius Alfred Moloney
    Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney, KCMG, was a British colonial administrator.He served as British Administrator of The Gambia from 1884 to 1886, Governor of Lagos Colony from 1886 to 1890, Governor of British Honduras from 1891 to 1897, Governor of the Federal Colony of the Windward Islands from 1897...

  • Cornell Glen
    Cornell Glen
    Cornelius "Cornell" Glen is a Trinidadian footballer currently with Caledonia AIA.-Club:Glen began his professional career in 1999 with Trinidadian club Futgof. After two years with Futgof, Glen moved to Portugal, where he played for Sanjoanense...

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  • Counties of Trinidad and Tobago
    Counties of Trinidad and Tobago
    Historically, Trinidad was divided into eight counties, and these counties were subdivided into Wards. Tobago was administered as a Ward of County Saint David.* Caroni* Mayaro* Nariva* Saint Andrew* Saint David* Saint George* Saint Patrick* Victoria...

  • Courland colonization of the Americas
    Courland colonization of the Americas
    The Duchy of Courland was the smallest nation to colonize the Americas with a colony on the island of Tobago from 1654 to 1659, and intermittently from 1660 to 1689. -History:...

  • Couva
    Couva
    Couva is a town in west-central Trinidad, south of Chaguanas and north of Claxton Bay and San Fernando. The Greater Couva area includes the Point Lisas Industrial Estate and the Port of Point Lisas. Couva's southern boundary is at the town of California, and to the north Couva stretches to McBean...

  • Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation
    Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation
    Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 719.64 km². Urban areas within Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation include Claxton Bay, Couva, Point Lisas, St...

  • Crab-eating raccoon
    Crab-eating raccoon
    The Crab-eating Raccoon is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America . It is found from Costa Rica south through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay...

  • Crazy (calypsonian)
    Crazy (calypsonian)
    Edwin Ayoung is better known as Crazy is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian.Ayoung was born to Chinese Trinidadian father and a Venezuelan mother. Often called the "Loveable Lunatic of Soca", he is artistically underrated in his native land but one of the most commercially successful artists on...

  • Crown Point Airport
    Crown Point Airport
    Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson International Airport is an international airport located on the island of Tobago. It is located at the southwesternmost part of the island, near the town of Canaan, and from the capital, Scarborough. It is one of two international airports serving the twin isle...

  • Cuatro (instrument)
    Cuatro (instrument)
    The cuatro is any of several Latin American instruments of the guitar or lute family. The cuatro is smaller than a guitar. Cuatro means four in Spanish, although current instruments may have more than four strings....

  • Cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago
    Cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago cuisine is indicative of the blends of Indian, Amerindian, European, African, Creole, Chinese and Lebanese gastronomic influences.-Breakfast dishes:Hot Breakfast:Popular Breakfast Fast Food - D roti which is usually served with:...

  • Culture of Trinidad and Tobago
    Culture of Trinidad and Tobago
    The culture of Trinidad and Tobago reflects the influence of African, Indian, Amerindian, Chinese, British, French and to a lesser extent Spanish and Portuguese cultures. The histories of Trinidad and Tobago are different, and there are contrasts in the cultural influences which have shaped each...

  • Cumuto
    Cumuto
    Cumuto is a town and district in Trinidad. Cumuto is west of Sangre Grande and south of Arima. Between 1940 and 1956 much of Cumuto was part of the American army base known either as Fort Read or Wallerfield; the area was leased to the United States as part of the Destroyers for Bases...

  • Cunupia
    Cunupia
    Cunupia is a town in central Trinidad. It is part of the Borough of Chaguanas. Cunupia is just northeast of Chaguanas proper. Like Chaguanas itself, Cunupia has experienced rapid growth in recent years, especially in terms of residential developments....

  • Curepe
    Curepe
    Curepe is a town in the East-West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located west of St Augustine and east of St Joseph. Curepe abuts the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Many of the students attending the university live in Curepe.Curepe began as a crossroads, where...

  • Cyd Gray
    Cyd Gray
    Cyd Gray is a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago. He plays as a defender for San Juan Jabloteh, as well as the islands' national team. He made his debut for the Soca Warriors against Costa Rica in 2001, and has 35 caps and 1 goal. He was in the squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.-External links:*...

  • Cyril Merry
    Cyril Merry
    Cyril Arthur Merry was a cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies....


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  • Daisy Voisin
    Daisy Voisin
    Daisy Voisin was a Parang singer and composer.Voisin was born in Erin, Trinidad and Tobago. She began her singing career in the Village Council and other local groups. A deeply religious person, she received the message to spread the gospel of Parang in a church in Siparia in 1973...

  • Dale Saunders
    Dale Saunders
    Dale Saunders is a footballer from Trinidad and Tobago. He currently plays for Joe Public. He earned 48 caps and scored 4 goals for the national team between 1997 and 2003 ....

  • Damion Barry
    Damion Barry
    Damion Barry is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.55 seconds, achieved in June 2005 in Port-of-Spain....

  • Daren Ganga
    Daren Ganga
    Daren Ganga is a West Indian cricketer of East Indian descent. He is a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm offbreak bowler. After debuting as a 19 year old he has found himself in and out of the West Indies team, playing regularly for and at times captaining the West Indies A...

  • Darrel Brown
    Darrel Brown
    Darrel Brown is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres.In the beginning of his career he performed well in World Youth and Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he finished fourth in both 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay...

  • Dave Mohammed
    Dave Mohammed
    Dave Mohammed is a West Indian cricketer. He is a left-arm chinaman bowler, and bats left-handed.Having played only three first-class matches, he was called up to the squad for the third Test against South Africa in March 2001, but did not make his Test debut until January 2004, again against...

  • David Atiba Charles
    David Atiba Charles
    David Atiba Charles is a Trinidadian footballer who currently plays for the Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division....

  • David Holford
    David Holford
    David Anthony Jerome Holford is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 24 Tests from 1966 to 1977. He is the cousin of Garry Sobers.-References:...

  • David Rudder
    David Rudder
    David Michael Rudder is a calypsonian from Trinidad.-Career:David Rudder is one of the top calypsonians of all time. In 1977, he joined Charlie's Roots, one of the top bands in Trinidad and Tobago. He spent many years as one of the vocalists with the band...

  • David Williams (cricketer)
    David Williams (cricketer)
    David Williams is a former West Indian cricketer who played in 11 Tests and 36 ODIs from 1988 to 1998.A diminutive man, at 5 foot 4, Williams struggled to grab Jeff Dujon's place in the international side not least because of his inability to contribute the weight of runs Dujon managed...

  • Debe
    Debe
    Debe is a town in south Trinidad located north of Penal and south of San Fernando. As the town of Debe has grown it has merged to some extent with Penal. Debe is an important town in the wholesale marketing of agricultural produce, and was formerly important in sugar cane production. Debe is...

  • Defence Force
  • Delaware Bank
    Delaware Bank
    The Delaware Bank is an area of shallow water 20 miles off Galera Point on the east coast of Trinidad to the south of Tobago. The seafloor comes to within six fathoms of the surface, making the bank a hazard for shipping....

  • Democratic Action Congress
    Democratic Action Congress
    The Democratic Action Congress was a Tobago-based political party in Trinidad and Tobago.-History:The party was established in 1971 by A. N. R. Robinson, and was originally a autonomist party. It first contested general elections in 1976, in which it won both Tobago seats, taken by Robinson and...

  • Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
    Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The Democratic Labour Party was the main opposition party in Trinidad and Tobago between 1957 and 1971. The party was the party which opposed the People's National Movement at the time of Independence...

  • Democratic National Alliance
  • Democratic Party of Trinidad and Tobago
    Democratic Party of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Democratic Party of Trinidad and Tobago is a political party in Trinidad and Tobago without parliamentary representation. The party is led by Steve Alvarez, with Wayne Rodriguez as its chairman. It was formed in 2001 by a group of concerned citizens. The party symbol for the DPTT is the...

  • Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
    Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
    This article is about the demographic features of the population of Trinidad and Tobago, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.-Ethnic groups:...

  • Denesh Ramdin
    Denesh Ramdin
    Denesh Ramdin is a West Indian cricketer of Indian descent. He is a right-handed batsman who generally occupies the position of wicketkeeper.He is seen by selectors and fans as a replacement in terms of playing style for Jeff Dujon...

  • Denis Atkinson
    Denis Atkinson
    Denis St Eval Atkinson was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches as an all-rounder, hitting 922 runs and taking 47 wickets. He also played first-class cricket for Barbados and Trinidad...

  • Dennis Lawrence
    Dennis Lawrence
    Dennis Lawrence is a former Trinidad and Tobago football player who is currently part of the coaching staff for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League.- Club career :...

  • Densill Theobald
    Densill Theobald
    Densill Theobald is a football player who plays for Dempo S.C. in the I-League.-Career:Theobald joined Scottish club Falkirk in the summer transfer window of 2005, after the recommendation of international team-mate Russell Latapy. He is a comfortable midfielder, who can play in any role across...

  • Denyse Plummer
    Denyse Plummer
    Denyse Plummer is a calypso singer from Trinidad and Tobago. The 1954-born blue-eyed daughter of a white father and black mother, she initially faced significant prejudice in a genre traditionally seen as Afro-Caribbean, but was eventually recognized as a leading calypso performer.Before entering...

  • Derek Walcott
    Derek Walcott
    Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...

  • Deryck Murray
    Deryck Murray
    Deryck Lance Murray is a former West Indies cricketer. A wicketkeeper and right-handed batsman, Murray kept wicket to the potent West Indian fast bowling attacks of the 1970s ; his efficient glovework effected 189 Test dismissals and greatly enhanced the potency of the bowling attack.Murray...

  • Destra Garcia
    Destra Garcia
    Destra Garcia is a Soca singer and songwriter based in Trinidad and Tobago. Destra is noted for her high energy performances, harmonious vocal skill and eccentric fashion style...

  • Diego Martin Regional Corporation
    Diego Martin Regional Corporation
    Diego Martin Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 127.53 km² and is headquartered in Petit Valley. Other urban areas within Diego Martin Regional Corporation include Carenage, Diego Martin, Maraval and Westmoorings.-Elected Areas:* Alyce...

  • Diego Martin
    Diego Martin
    Diego Martin is a town in northwestern Trinidad, just north-west of the capital Port of Spain and east of Carenage. The Diego Martin Valley in the Northern Range was once filled with a number of small villages but is now a densely populated area. It was named after a Spanish explorer Don Diego...

  • Digicel
    Digicel
    Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Central America, and the Caribbean regions. The company is owned by Irishman Denis O'Brien, is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica. It provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean...

  • Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...

  • Dipsas variegata
    Dipsas variegata
    Dipsas variegata, the Snail-eating Snake is a snake found in Central America, South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is reported to feed almost exclusively on tree snails and slugs....

  • Discover Trinidad and Tobago
    Discover Trinidad and Tobago
    Discover Trinidad and Tobago is an annual, free travel/visitor guide to Trinidad and Tobago. It has been published by Media and Editorial Projects Limited since 1991....

  • Divali Nagar
    Divali Nagar
    Divali Nagar is an annual exposition of Hindu culture and Indo-Trinidadian culture , it is associated with the celebration of Diwali in Trinidad and Tobago. The exposition is staged at the Divali Nagar Site, located in the borough of Chaguanas. This event was started in the Mid Centre Mall car...

  • Dole Chadee
    Dole Chadee
    Dole Chadee was a drug lord and convicted murderer. His base of operation was in Piparo, Trinidad and Tobago....

  • Dominic Kallipersad
    Dominic Kallipersad
    Dominic Kallipersad is a veteran journalist, and one of the most recognizable faces in Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently the Head of News at the flagship television arm of the Caribbean Communications Network, CCN TV6...

  • Donna Cox
    Donna Cox
    Donna J. Cox is an American artist and scientist, Professor of Art + Design; Director, Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Director, Visualization and Experimental Technologies at National Center for Supercomputing Applications ; and...

  • Doubles (food)
    Doubles (food)
    "Doubles" is a common street food in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a sandwich made with two flat fried "breads", called "bara" filled with curried chick peas or garbanzo beans, commonly called channa...

  • Drupatee Ramgoonai
    Drupatee Ramgoonai
    Drupatee Ramgoonai is a Trinidadian chutney and chutney soca musician from Penal. She had her biggest hit in 1988 when her " Mr. Bissessar" was a Road March contender.Drupatee Ramgoonai was born in Penal, Trinidad...

  • Dwayne Bravo
    Dwayne Bravo
    Dwayne James John Bravo is a West Indian cricketer. A right-handed pace bowler, Bravo is expected to play a significant role in attempts by the West Indies to return to international prominence in the sport....

  • Dwight Yorke Stadium
    Dwight Yorke Stadium
    The Dwight Yorke Stadium, located in Bacolet, Tobago, , is named after former Manchester United footballer Dwight Yorke. The stadium was constructed for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship which was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Dwight Yorke
    Dwight Yorke
    Dwight Eversley Yorke is a Trinidad and Tobago former football player. He played for Aston Villa for most of his career, followed by stints with Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland...


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  • Earl Lovelace
    Earl Lovelace
    For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace.Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer....

  • Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited
    Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited
    The Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company Limited is a joint public/private sector company charged with the initiative of building a natural gas distribution network for the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands.-Network:...

  • Eastern Main Road
    Eastern Main Road
    The Eastern Main Road is a major road in Trinidad and Tobago running from Port of Spain in the west to Sangre Grande in the east. The towns of the East-West Corridor are strung along its route. Until the construction of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and the Beetham Highway the Eastern Main...

  • East-West Corridor
    East-West Corridor
    The East-West Corridor is the built-up area of north Trinidad stretching from the capital, Port of Spain, 15 miles east to Arima. The term was coined by economist and political philosopher Lloyd Best, after gleaning the works of a technocrat named Lynette Attwell. The Corridor includes such towns...

  • Environment of Trinidad and Tobago
    Environment of Trinidad and Tobago
    The environment of Trinidad and Tobago reflects the interaction between its biotic diversity, high population density, and industrialised economy.-Biota:The flora of Trinidad and Tobago is believed to include about 2,500 species of vascular plants...

  • Economy of Trinidad and Tobago
    Economy of Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago has earned a reputation as an excellent investment site for international businesses and has one of the highest growth rates and per capita incomes in Latin America. Recent growth has been fueled by investments in liquefied natural gas , petrochemicals, and steel. Additional...

  • Edward Beetham
    Edward Beetham
    Sir Edward "Eddy" Betham Beetham served as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1955 and 1960. He presided over the transition to elected internal self-government. Beetham was the last British colonial governor. The Beetham Highway in Port of Spain is named after him....

  • El Cerro del Aripo
    El Cerro del Aripo
    El Cerro del Aripo, at , is the highest point in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is part of the Aripo Massif and is located in the Northern Range on the island of Trinidad, northeast of the town of Arima.-References:...

  • El Tucuche
    El Tucuche
    El Tucuche is the second highest peak in Trinidad's northern range and is noted for its interesting plateau shape.Its summit is home to the Trinidad endemic El Tucuche Golden Tree Frog , found only on El Tucuche and on Trinidad's highest peak El Cerro del Aripo...

  • Elections in Trinidad and Tobago
    Elections in Trinidad and Tobago
    Elections in Trinidad and Tobago gives information on election and election results in Trinidad and Tobago.Trinidad and Tobago elects on national level a House of Representatives...

  • Ellerslie Park
    Ellerslie Park
    Ellerslie Park is an exclusive residential development in the northwestern corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The development is in the shape of an oval with a single entrance. No two homes are the same, a result of each home being built to the specifications of its original owner...

  • Ellis Achong
    Ellis Achong
    Ellis Edgar Achong was a sportsman from Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. He played cricket for the West Indies and was the first person of Chinese descent to play in a Test match...

  • Ellis Clarke
    Ellis Clarke
    Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, TC, GCMG was the second and last Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago and the first President of Trinidad and Tobago. Clarke was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning...

  • Emancipation Day
    Emancipation Day
    Emancipation Day is celebrated in many former British colonies in the Caribbean and areas of the United States on various dates in observance of the emancipation of slaves of African origin. It is also observed in other areas in regard to the abolition of serfdom or other forms of...

  • Emile Ramsammy
    Emile Ramsammy
    Emile Ramsammy is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing Champion jockey. He had more than 500 victories racing in the Caribbean before emigrating to Canada in the early 1990s....

  • English colonization of the Americas
  • English language
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

  • Englishman's Bay
    Englishman's Bay
    Englishman's Bay is a secluded beach on the leeward coast of Tobago, between Castara and Parlatuvier. Although the bay does not draw the large numbers of beachgoers that Tobago's western beaches do, it is considered of the island's most beautiful. The beach itself is a classic crescent shape,...

  • Eric A. Williams
    Eric A. Williams
    Eric A. Williams was until November, 2007 a Trinidad and Tobago politician and was Member of Parliament for Port of Spain South. Until his resignation from the Cabinet in January 2006, he served as the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries in the then People's National Movement government a...

  • Eric Gibson
    Eric Gibson
    "King" Eric Gibson is a Bahamian musician and entrepreneur. He is also the semiofficial Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill.Gibson was born on the small island of Acklins to a musical family, although he didn't pursue music until his adulthood...

  • Eric Williams Plaza
    Eric Williams Plaza
    Eric Williams Plaza, also known as the Eric Williams Financial Complex, located on Independence Square, Port of Spain, is the tallest building in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in the English-speaking Caribbean. It consists of a pair of skyscrapers 22 stories high and 302 ft tall, locally known...

  • Eric Williams
    Eric Williams
    Eric Eustace Williams served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian, and is widely regarded as "The Father of The Nation."...

  • Erythrolamprus aesculapii
    Erythrolamprus aesculapii
    Erythrolamprus aesculapii, the False Coral, is a snake found in Amazonian South America and on the island of Trinidad . It feeds mainly on other snakes and is often found in the leaf litter or burrowing in the soil in rain forests. This snake is mildly venomous...

  • Erythrolamprus bizona
    Erythrolamprus bizona
    Erythrolamprus bizona, the False Coral is a snake which is found in Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and on the island of Trinidad . Similar in pattern to a coral snake, this species probably gains protection through mimicry...

  • Erythrolamprus ocellatus
    Erythrolamprus ocellatus
    Erythrolamprus ocellatus, the Tobago False Coral is a snake which is endemic to the island of Tobago . Unlike other Erythrolapus species, E. ocellatus is not sympatric with coral snakes and has a spotted rather than a banded pattern. It probably feeds on other snakes.-References:...

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  • Evans Wise
    Evans Wise
    Evans Wise is a former Trinidadian football player who played for the Tampa Bay Mutiny in MLS and German football club SV Waldhof Mannheim....

  • Extempo Monarch
    Extempo Monarch
    Extempo Monarch is the title awarded to the winner of an annual extempo competition held at the Trinidad Carnival.A number of contestants compete in preliminary rounds...

  • Extempo
    Extempo
    Extempo is a lyrically improvised form of calypso and is most notably practised in Trinidad and Tobago. It consists of a performer improvising in song or in rhythmic speech on a given theme before an audience who themselves take turns to perform...


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  • Fatel Razack
    Fatel Razack
    The Fatel Razack was the first ship to bring indentured labourers from India to Trinidad. The ship was built in Aprenade for a trader named Ibrahim Bin Yussef, an Indian Muslim merchant in Bombay. It was constructed from teak and had a carrying capacity of 415 tons...

  • Fatima College
    Fatima College
    Fatima College is a government-assisted, highly-selective Roman Catholic boys' secondary school in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It was established in 1945 and had an enrollment of 895 students . The school was established and is run by the Holy Ghost Fathers, an international Roman Catholic...

  • Fay-Ann Lyons
    Fay-Ann Lyons
    Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez is a Trinidadian soca songwriter, recording artist and performer. She is also known by such titles as the Lyon Empress, Mane the Matriach and the Silver Surfer, a nickname which she claimed during her performance at the 2008 International Soca Monarch. She is married to...

  • Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations
    Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations
    Arising out of the 2000 Convention of NATUC, the main national trade union centre in Trinidad and Tobago, divisions took place which resulted in the formation of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations...

  • Federation Park
    Federation Park
    Federation Park is a residential neighbourhood in northwestern Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Federation Park was built to house delegates to the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation. As a result of this, the streets in Federation Park are named for the various territories which...

  • Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
    Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
    The flag of Trinidad and Tobago was adopted upon independence from Great Britain on 31 August 1962.-Description:A Flag is red with a white-edged black diagonal band from the upper hoist side to the lower fly side. In blazon, Gules, a bend Sable fimbriated Argent.-Construction:The width of the white...

  • Flavorite Ice Cream
    Flavorite Ice Cream
    Flavorite Ice Cream is one of the leading commercial ice cream manufacturers in Trinidad and Tobago. It was formed in 1970 by Vernon Charles. It is also known as Flavorite Foods as well. It is located at Boundary Road, San Juan, Trinidad...

  • Floella Benjamin
    Floella Benjamin
    Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin OBE DL is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and politician...

  • Foreign relations of Trinidad and Tobago
    Foreign relations of Trinidad and Tobago
    Modern Trinidad and Tobago maintains close relations with its Caribbean neighbors and major North American and European trading partners. As the most industrialized and second-largest country in the English-speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago has taken a leading role in the Caribbean Community...

  • Forged From The Love of Liberty
    Forged From The Love of Liberty
    Forged from the Love of Liberty is the national anthem of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Originally composed as the national anthem for the short-lived West Indies Federation , this song was adopted by Trinidad and Tobago when it became independent in 1962.-Lyrics:Forged from the Love of...

  • Fort San Andres
    Fort San Andres
    Fort San Andrés was one of the oldest forts built for the defense of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Originally built on an offshore rock in the harbour, the site is now inland due to reclamation of the surrounding land. After the British captured Trinidad in 1797 the fort fell into disuse...

  • Foxy Brown
  • Francesca Hawkins
    Francesca Hawkins
    Francesca Hawkins is a television news presenter and public relations specialist in Trinidad and Tobago. She is currently a frontline presenter for CNC3 Television.-Media career:...

  • Frank King (cricketer)
    Frank King (cricketer)
    Frank McDonald King was a West Indian cricketer who played in 14 Tests between 1953 and 1956.Born in Delamere Land, Brighton, St Michael, Barbados, King was a hostile right-arm fast bowler who opened the bowling for the West Indies in three consecutive home series in the early 1950s...

  • Franklin Khan
    Franklin Khan
    Franklin Khan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and former Member of Parliament for Ortoire-Mayaro and Chairman of the ruling People's National Movement....

  • Frederick Barlee
    Frederick Barlee
    Sir Frederick Palgrave Barlee KCMG was Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1855 to 1875; Lieutenant-Governor of the British Honduras from 1877 to 1882; and Administrator of Trinidad in 1884....

  • Frederick Broome
    Frederick Broome
    Sir Frederick Napier Broome KCMG was a colonial administrator in the British Empire.He was born in Canada, but was living in England in 1865, when he married Mary Anne Barker...

  • Fuad Khan
    Fuad Khan
    Dr. Fuad Khan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician. Since 1995 he has served as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of San Juan/Barataria in the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago. Elected on a United National Congress ticket he is currently an "Independent UNC...

  • Fyzabad
    Fyzabad
    Fyzabad is a town in southwestern Trinidad, south of San Fernando, west of Siparia and northeast of Point Fortin. It is named after the town of Faizabad in India. Colloquially it is known as "Fyzo" by many people, especially taxicab drivers.-History:...


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  • Gabrielle Reece
    Gabrielle Reece
    Gabrielle Allyse Reece is an American professional volleyball player, sports announcer, fashion model and actress.-Early life:...

  • Galera Point
    Galera Point
    Galera Point is the eastern most point in Trinidad, in the island's far northeast. It is in the county of St David and is very close to the town of Toco....

  • Gary Goodridge
    Gary Goodridge
    Gary Goodridge , nicknamed "Big Daddy", is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian-Canadian former super heavyweight kickboxer and heavyweight mixed martial artist fighting out of Barrie, Ontario. Goodridge is known for his hard-hitting fighting style and showmanship...

  • Gaspar Grande
    Gaspar Grande
    Gaspar Grande or Gasparee is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago named for Gaspar de Percín. The island is 1.29 km² in area and lies west of Port of Spain...

  • Gasparillo
    Gasparillo
    Gasparillo is a town in southern Trinidad. It lies east of Pointe-à-Pierre and northeast of San Fernando. The population is approximately 16,000. The name Gasparillo is applied not only Gasparillo proper, but also the surrounding communities including Bonne Aventure and Whiteland. Trinidadians do...

  • Gayelle TV
  • Geddes Granger
    Geddes Granger
    His Excellency Makandal Daaga, born Geddes Granger, is a Trinidad and Tobago political activist and former revolutionary. He is also a son of Gaskynd Granger, and cousin of David A. Granger. He was the leader of the 1970 Black Power Revolution. During the unrest he was arrested and charged. The...

  • Geoffrey Holder
    Geoffrey Holder
    Geoffrey Richard Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.-Early life:...

  • Geography of Trinidad and Tobago
    Geography of Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic republic in the southern Caribbean between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela. They are southeasterly islands of the Lesser Antille, Monos, Huevos, Gaspar Grande , Little Tobago, and St. Giles Island. Trinidad is off the...

  • George Bovell
    George Bovell
    George Bovell III is a three-time Olympic swimmer from Trinidad and Tobago. He represented the country at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. At the 2004 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200 IM:the 9th medalist in the country's history and 12th medal overall...

  • George Chambers
    George Chambers
    George Michael Chambers was the second Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. Born in Port of Spain, Chambers joined the People's National Movement in 1956, and was elected to Parliament representing the St. Anns East seat...

  • George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris
    George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris
    George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris GCSI , was a British peer, Liberal politician and colonial administrator...

  • George Le Hunte
    George Le Hunte
    Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte KCMG was Governor of South Australia from 1 July 1903 until 18 February 1909, soon after federation of Australia....

  • George Maxwell Richards
    George Maxwell Richards
    George Maxwell Richards, TC, CM is the fourth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad in 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd. before...

  • George Padmore
    George Padmore
    George Padmore , born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian communist who became a leading Pan-Africanist in his later years.-Early years:...

  • Gerald Yetming
    Gerald Yetming
    Gerald Yetming is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman. Since 2002 he has served as the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of St. Joseph in the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago for the Opposition United National Congress...

  • Gerry Gomez
    Gerry Gomez
    Gerry Ethridge Gomez was a West Indian cricketer who played 29 Tests for the West Indies between 1939 and 1954, scoring 1,243 runs and taking 58 wickets. He captained in one match for the West Indies when England toured in 1947/8.Gomez was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad...

  • Gillian Lucky
    Gillian Lucky
    Gillian Lucky is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer. Since 2001 she has been United National Congress Member of Parliament for the Pointe-à-Pierre constituency...

  • Giselle Laronde
  • Gisselle Salandy
    Gisselle Salandy
    Joenette Giselle Ife Salandy , also known as Gizelle Salandy, Jizelle Salandy or Jizelle Joseph, was an unbeaten world-class female boxer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is ranked as the #1 female light middleweight boxer all-time by the Boxrec...

  • Glossy Ibis
    Glossy Ibis
    The Glossy Ibis is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae.This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas...

  • Gokool
    Gokool
    Haji Gokool Meah was an industrialist and philanthropist. He was born in Kashmir, in what was then British India. He was originally named Modhoo...

  • Government Campus Plaza
    Government Campus Plaza
    The Government Campus Plaza is a government complex, currently under construction on Richmond Street and Wrightson Road in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago....

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  • Grande Riviere
    Grande Riviere
    Grande Riviere is a village on the north coast of Trinidad located between Toco and Matelot. The area was originally settled by immigrants from Venezuela and Tobago who cultivated cacao and subsistence crops...

  • Graph Nobel
    Graph Nobel
    Graph Nobel is a Canadian indie/alternative/pop musician and songwriter. Her music is "hip-hop inspired with punk rock abandon".Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario to Trinidadian parents, Graph Nobel began writing music early, at the age of 14, then performing studio recordings at 17...

  • Great Blue Heron
    Great Blue Heron
    The Great Blue Heron is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos Islands. It is a rare vagrant to Europe, with records from Spain, the Azores and England...

  • Great Egret
    Great Egret
    The Great Egret , also known as the Great White Egret or Common Egret, White Heron, or Great White Heron, is a large, widely-distributed egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized...

  • Green Anaconda
  • Green Heron
    Green Heron
    The Green Heron is a small heron of North and Central America. It was long considered conspecific with its sister species the Striated Heron , and together they were called "Green-backed Heron"...

  • Grégory Charles
    Gregory Charles
    Gregory Charles is a Quebec performing artist of French Canadian and Trinidadian origin.-Biography:...

  • Gretta Taylor
    Gretta Taylor
    Gretta Taylor is a musician and teacher from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the conductor and musical director of The Marionettes Chorale . She received the Humming Bird Medal—Gold in 1990 for "outstanding services to music and culture in Trinidad and Tobago".-Education and career:Taylor was born in...

  • Growler (calypsonian)
    Growler (calypsonian)
    The Growler, or the Mighty Growler, was the name Errol Duke used for his calypso work and recordings. His recordings date from the 1930s and 1940s, and he is thought to have died in the mid-1950s....

  • Growling Tiger
    Growling Tiger
    Neville Marcano , known as the Growling Tiger, is a Trinidadian calypsonian.Born in Siparia, Tiger was originally a boxer who won the Trinidad bantamweight championship in 1929. He was active in calypso from his teens. He was a member of the Old Brigade of calypso singers, which included Lord...

  • Grynner
    Grynner
    Grynner is a popular calypsonian from Barbados. Like his compatriot Mighty Gabby, his songs often feature political and social commentary. He has been named the Barbados Crop Over Road March "Tune of the Crop" winner seven times .-External links:* ] site]* *...

  • Guaracara River
    Guaracara River
    The Guaracara River, located in south Trinidad, runs westward out of the Central Range and drains into the Gulf of Paria. It forms the boundary between the city of San Fernando and the Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation...

  • Guayaguayare
    Guayaguayare
    Guayaguayare is the southeasternmost village in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies at the southern end of the county of Mayaro. Guayaguayare is primarily a fishing village, but it also plays a major role in the petroleum industry...

  • Gulf of Paria
    Gulf of Paria
    The Gulf of Paria is a shallow inland sea between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. This sheltered body of water is considered to be one of the best natural harbours on the Atlantic coast of the Americas...

  • Gus Logie
    Gus Logie
    Augustine Lawrence Logie is a former West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and is currently an international cricket coach....

  • Gypsy (calypsonian)
    Gypsy (calypsonian)
    Winston Edward Peters, also known by his sobriquet Gypsy is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian and politician and currently serves as that country's Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism....


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  • Haddaway
    Haddaway
    Nestor Alexander Haddaway , better known by his stage name Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-German singer. He is most famous for his worldwide 1993 hit, "What Is Love".- Early life :...

  • Hammond Furlonge
    Hammond Furlonge
    Hammond Allen Furlonge was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests between 1955 and 1956....

  • Hardbargin
    Hardbargin
    Hardbargain is a village in Central Trinidad on the southern edge of the Central Range. The village has :# Hardbargain has a large Hindu Mandir called the Triveni Mandir aka the Sisters Road Hindu Temple. This establishment has been in existence since the 1960s, however the current majestic...

  • Harold Sonny Ladoo
    Harold Sonny Ladoo
    Harold Sonny Ladoo was a Caribbean novelist and author of two books documenting the struggles of living in poverty in the Hindu communities of Trinidad and Tobago.Ladoo was born and grew up in an environment much like the world of his novels...

  • Harry Belafonte
    Harry Belafonte
    Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...

  • Hasely Crawford Stadium
    Hasely Crawford Stadium
    The Hasely Crawford Stadium, located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is named after Hasely Crawford, the first person from Trinidad and Tobago to win an Olympic gold medal. Originally built as the National Stadium in 1980, the stadium was re-named to honour Crawford in 2001. The stadium...

  • Hasely Crawford
    Hasely Crawford
    Hasely Joachim Crawford is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became the first Olympic champion of his country. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.-Early Years:...

  • Hazel Scott
    Hazel Scott
    Hazel Dorothy Scott was an internationally known, American jazz and classical pianist and singer.-Early years and education:...

  • Hazel Ward Redman
    Hazel Ward Redman
    Hazel Ward Redman is a Trinidad and Tobago television personality.She hosted Teen Talent and Twelve and Under, both talent shows with a flair for bringing out the arts...

  • Heather Headley
    Heather Headley
    Heather Headley is a Trinidadian-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and one Grammy Award.-Personal life:...

  • Hedy Fry
    Hedy Fry
    Hedy Fry, PC, MP is a Canadian politician and physician. She is the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre.-Early life:Fry was born into poverty in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Helicops angulatus
    Helicops angulatus
    Helicops angulatus, the brown-banded water snake, is an aquatic snake.-Description:The brown-banded water snake grows to a maximum length of 78 cm ....

  • Henry Moore Jackson
    Henry Moore Jackson
    Sir Henry Moore Jackson R.A. GCMG was born in Grenada to the Anglican Bishop of Antigua and of the Leeward Islands. He received his education in England at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy. After his education, Jackson went into the military, serving for the Royal Artillery from 1870...

  • Henry Sylvester-Williams
  • Hillview College
    Hillview College
    Hillview CollegePrincipalMr.Leslie MahaseSchool typePublicMottoHumani Nihil AlienumReligious affiliationPresbyterianFounded1955LocationTunapuna, Trinidad and TobagoEnrollment800Faculty42Campus surroundings...

  • Hinduism in the West Indies
    Hinduism in the West Indies
    Hinduism is the leading single religion of the Indo-Caribbean communities of the West Indies. Hindus are particularly well represented in Trinidad and Tobago, where they constituted 25 percent of the total population, as of 1995...

  • History of Trinidad and Tobago
    History of Trinidad and Tobago
    The history of Trinidad begins with the settlements of the islands by Amerindians. Both islands were explored by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British, French, Dutch and Courlanders, but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in...

  • Hosay Massacre
    Hosay Massacre
    The Hosay massacre took place on Thursday October 30, 1884 in San Fernando, Trinidad when the British colonial authorities fired on participants in the annual Hosay procession who had been banned from entering the town.-Background:After the emancipation of slaves in...

  • Hosay
    Hosay
    Hosay or Tadjah is a West Indian commemoration, in which multi-colored model mausoleums are paraded, then ritually offered up to the sea, or any body of water...

  • House of Angostura
    House of Angostura
    The House of Angostura is a Trinidad and Tobago company famous for the production of angostura bitters, invented by the company's founder. The company is also a distiller and is the major producer of rum in Trinidad and Tobago. The company also has been used as a vehicle for international...

  • House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
    House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
    The House of Representatives is the elected Lower House of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. The House of Representatives sits in the Red House in Port of Spain. It has 41 members, each elected to represent single-seat constituencies...

  • Howard Nelson
    Howard Nelson
    Howard Nelson, Ph.D. is a Trinidadian ecologist and wildlife biologist. He is currently the CEO and Conservation Manager at the Asa Wright Nature Centre located in the Arima Valley in Trinidad's Northern Range....

  • Hubert Jerningham
    Hubert Jerningham
    Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham, KCMG, DL was British Liberal Party politician and Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1897 and 1900....

  • Hubert Julian
    Hubert Julian
    Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was a Trinidad-born African American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed "The Black Eagle".-Biography:...

  • Hubert Rance
    Hubert Rance
    Major General Sir Hubert Elvin Rance GCMG GBE CB was the last British Governor of Burma between 1946 and 1948, while the country moved towards independence. Later he became Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.-Career to 1945:...

  • Huevos
    Huevos
    Huevos is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The island is 1.01 km² in area. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela.-Places:...

  • Hydrops triangularis
    Hydrops triangularis
    Hydrops triangularis, the Water Coral, is a water-snake found in western Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. It reaches a maximum size of about 78 cm and feeds on eels and fish....


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  • Ian Bishop
  • Ian Cox
    Ian Cox
    Ian Gary Cox is a former Trinidad and Tobago international footballer.Cox joined Crystal Palace from non-League side Carshalton Athletic for a fee of £40,000 in 1994...

  • Ian Hanomansing
    Ian Hanomansing
    Ian Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.-Early life:...

  • Ian McDonald (writer)
    Ian McDonald (writer)
    Ian McDonald is a poet, novelist, and sugar industry advocate. He was born in St. Augustine, Trinidad, in 1933, and educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain and Clare College, Cambridge University, where he was a tennis champion and captained the university team. In 1955 he moved to...

  • Icacos Point
    Icacos Point
    Icacos Point is the southwestern most point in Trinidad and Tobago. It is at the end of a long peninsula that forms St Patrick County. A channel called the Serpent's Mouth separates Icacos Point from the coast of Venezuela, only 11 kilometers away....

  • Ice Records
    Ice Records
    Ice Records is a record label based in Barbados that is owned by musician Eddy Grant. In addition to Grant's music, the label also seeks "to record, promote and market classic calypso, soca and Ringbang ." Ice Records lays claims to owning the largest catalog of Caribbean music in the...

  • IETV
    IeTV
    ie Television Cable Channel 1 is a local cable television station in Trinidad and Tobago and was the first local cable station in the country.-Availability:It is carried on channel 1 on the Flow cable system in Trinidad...

  • Igneri
    Igneri
    The Igneri were an ethnic group that was once part of the Arawak tribe. They inhabited the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico during the Pre-Columbian era. They are said to have originated in the Orinoco region in Venezuela...

  • Imantodes cenchoa
    Imantodes cenchoa
    The Mapepire Corde Violon or Blunthead Tree Snake is a slender snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on geckos, anolis lizards, frogs, reptile eggs, and frog eggs.-References:...

  • Imtiaz Ali
  • Independence Square (Port of Spain)
    Independence Square (Port of Spain)
    Independence Square lies near to southern end of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Formerly named Marine Square, it was re-named in honour of Trinidad and Tobago's independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. The Square runs from east to west and is bounded on the north side by King Street...

  • Indian Arrival Day
    Indian Arrival Day
    Indian Arrival Day is a holiday celebrated on various days around the world, usually commemorating the arrival of people from the Indian subcontinent to that nation.-Guyana:...

  • Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago
    Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, founded in 2006, is a museum dedicated to preserving the history of Indo-Caribbeans. The museum is located near the Temple in the Sea at Waterloo , Trinidad. The museum is the only one of its kind in the Caribbean.-External links:...

  • Indo-Trinidadian
    Indo-Trinidadian
    Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian are nationals of Trinidad and Tobago of Indian or other South Asian ancestry.Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonians has now become interchangeable with Indians or East Indians. These were people who were taken from India by the British either as workers or educated...

  • Inshan Ali
    Inshan Ali
    Inshan Ali was a West Indian cricketer who played in 12 Tests from 1971 to 1977.Born in Preysal, Trinidad and Tobago, of Indian descent, Ali was a left-arm unorthodox spin bowler who made his first-class cricket debut for South Trinidad against North Trinidad on 15 April 1966, aged just 16 years...

  • International Organization for Standardization
    International Organization for Standardization
    The International Organization for Standardization , widely known as ISO, is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. Founded on February 23, 1947, the organization promulgates worldwide proprietary, industrial and commercial...

     (ISO)
    • ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

       country code for Trinidad and Tobago: TT
      Trinidad and Tobago
      Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

    • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
      ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

       country code for Trinidad and Tobago: TTO
      Trinidad and Tobago
      Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

    • ISO 3166-2:TT
      ISO 3166-2:TT
      ISO 3166-2:TT is the entry for Trinidad and Tobago in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Trinidad and Tobago,...

       region codes for Trinidad and Tobago
  • International School of Port-of-Spain
    International School of Port-of-Spain
    The International School of Port of Spain is an international school in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It is a private, coeducational day school which offers an educational program for students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 12. The school opened in September 1994.- Students :ISPS is home...

  • Ishwar Maraj
    Ishwar Maraj
    Ishwar Maraj is a Canadian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler.Before his move to Canada he played club cricket in Trinidad and Tobago. He holds the world record for the slowest ever fifty in a World Cup match, in an innings against South Africa, in the 2003...

  • Islam in Trinidad and Tobago
    Islam in Trinidad and Tobago
    Muslims constitute 6 percent of the population on Trinidad and Tobago, representing 65,318 individuals. The majority live in Trinidad but there are a handful in Tobago as well. The first Muslims to arrive in the country arrived from Africa brought as slaves by the colonists...

  • Islamic Broadcast Network
    Islamic Broadcast Network
    The Islamic Broadcast Network is a local cable television station in Trinidad and Tobago. Known as the IBN8, the station is carried on Channel 8 on the Columbus cable system. The station's studios are located at Bamboo Settlement in Valsayn, and its CEO is Inshan Ishmael.-Programming:The station...

  • Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
    Islands of Trinidad and Tobago
    This is a list of islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic republic in the southern Caribbean.-Bocas Islands:The Bocas Islands lie between Trinidad and Venezuela, in the Bocas del Dragón...

    :
    • Trinidad
      Trinidad
      Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

    • Tobago
      Tobago
      Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada. The island lies outside the hurricane belt...

    • Caledonia Island
      Caledonia Island
      Caledonia Island is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of "The Five Islands" group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

    • Carrera, Trinidad and Tobago
    • Chacachacare
      Chacachacare
      Chacachacare is an abandoned island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago located at 10° 41' north latitude and 61° 45' west longitude. The island is 3.642 km² in area. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela...

    • Craig Island
      Craig Island
      Craig Island is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of “The Five Islands” group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria. Craig Island is joined to Caledonia Island by a small causeway.-See also:...

       (Craig and Caledonia are joined by a narrow reef)
    • Cronstadt (Kronstadt)
    • Farallon (Flat Rock) in San Fernando
      San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
      The City of San Fernando with a population of 55,419 according to the 2000 census, is the larger of Trinidad and Tobago's two cities and the second largest municipality after Chaguanas. It occupies 18 km² and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad...

       Harbour
    • Gaspar Grande
      Gaspar Grande
      Gaspar Grande or Gasparee is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago named for Gaspar de Percín. The island is 1.29 km² in area and lies west of Port of Spain...

       (Gasparee)
    • Gasparillo
      Gasparillo
      Gasparillo is a town in southern Trinidad. It lies east of Pointe-à-Pierre and northeast of San Fernando. The population is approximately 16,000. The name Gasparillo is applied not only Gasparillo proper, but also the surrounding communities including Bonne Aventure and Whiteland. Trinidadians do...

       (Little Gasparee or Centipede Island)
    • Goat Island, Trinidad and Tobago
      Goat Island, Trinidad and Tobago
      Goat Island is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located off the coast of Speyside, between Tobago and Little Tobago.Some sources say Goat Island is the former home and retreat of Ian Fleming, the author and creator of the James Bond series. An article which appeared in...

    • Huevos, Trinidad and Tobago
    • Lenagan Island
      Lenagan Island
      Lenagan Island is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of “The Five Islands” group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

    • Little Tobago
      Little Tobago
      250px|thumb|right|Looking across to [[Saint Giles Island|St. Giles Island]] from Little TobagoLittle Tobago is a small island off the northeastern coast of Tobago, and part of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago...

       (Bird of Paradise Island)
    • Monos
      Monos
      Monos is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela. It is so named as the island was once home to noisy Red Howler Monkeys .-References:...

    • Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
      Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
      Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago is one of the Five Islands which lie west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria.Nelson Island is famous as the disembarkation point and quarantine station for indentured immigrants to Trinidad and Tobago in the nineteenth and early twentieth century...

    • Pelican Island (Trinidad and Tobago)
      Pelican Island (Trinidad and Tobago)
      Pelican Island is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of “The Five Islands” group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

    • Saint Giles Island
      Saint Giles Island
      The St Giles Island is a small island off the northeast tip of Tobago. It is the northernmost point in Trinidad and Tobago.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

    • Saut d'Eau
      Saut d'Eau
      Saut d'Eau, French for "Waterfall", is a small island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located just off the north coast of main island of Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea...

    • Sisters' Rock
      Sisters' Rock
      Sisters’ Rock is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located off the coast of Tobago.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

    • Soldado Rock
      Soldado Rock
      Soldado Rock is a small island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the Gulf of Paria.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

       in San Fernando
      San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
      The City of San Fernando with a population of 55,419 according to the 2000 census, is the larger of Trinidad and Tobago's two cities and the second largest municipality after Chaguanas. It occupies 18 km² and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad...

       Harbour

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  • Jack Noreiga
    Jack Noreiga
    Jack Mollinson Noreiga was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1971....

  • Jackie Grant
    Jackie Grant
    George Copeland Grant was a West Indian cricketer who captained the side through several series.Grant was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He captained the West Indies' team in the 1930-31, 1933, 1934-35 series...

  • Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
    Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt
    On Friday 27 July 1990, 114 members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Afro-Trinidadian Islamic organisation, led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah attempted to stage a coup d'état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago. Forty-two insurgents stormed the Red House and took the Prime...

  • Jamaat al Muslimeen
    Jamaat al Muslimeen
    The Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Muslim organisation within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago with a membership of predominantly Afro-Trinidadians....

  • Janelle Commissiong
    Janelle Commissiong
    Janelle Commissiong was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Commissiong migrated to the United States at the age of 13, and returned to Trinidad and Tobago ten years later...

  • Jason Gooding
    Jason Gooding
    Jason Gooding is a Triathlete from Trinidad & Tobago. He is a nine-time national champion.-Competition highlights:*Elite Male Winner of the Maple Lodge Farms Triathlon Series 2003...

  • Jason Norville
    Jason Norville
    Jason Norville is a Trinidadian footballer who plays for Bishop's Stortford as a striker. He came up through Watford's Academy, but moved to Barnet on 29 July 2005.-Career:...

  • Jason Scotland
    Jason Scotland
    Jason Kelvin Scotland is a Trinidadian footballer who plays for Ipswich Town as a striker.Scotland started his footballing career in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to play professionally for Scottish club Dundee United. He has also had spells with St...

  • Jaswick Taylor
    Jaswick Taylor
    Jaswick Ossie Taylor was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests from 1958 to 1959....

  • Jaycey Harper
    Jaycey Harper
    Jacey Harper is a male sprinter athlete from Trinidad and Tobago.A 100 metres specialist, Harper was a part of the Trinidad 4 × 100 m relay teams that won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships and the silver medal at the 2005 World Championships...

  • Jean and Dinah
    Jean and Dinah
    Jean and Dinah is a calypso from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean sung by calypsonian Mighty Sparrow which became an international hit in 1956. It was also his first of eight roadmarchs...

  • Jean Ramjohn-Richards
    Jean Ramjohn-Richards
    Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards is the First Lady of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and a medical doctor. She was born in San Fernando and was educated at Naparima Girls' High School and Naparima College before attending medical school in Ireland. She is married to President George Maxwell...

  • Jeff Stollmeyer
    Jeff Stollmeyer
    Jeffrey Baxter Stollmeyer was a Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and footballer. He played 32 Tests for the West Indies, captaining 13 of these....

  • Jeremy Taylor (writer)
    Jeremy Taylor (writer)
    Jeremy Taylor is a writer, editor and publisher who was born in England and has lived and worked in Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean since 1971. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Cambridge, and then a Master of Arts and Diploma in Education from Makerere...

  • Jerren Nixon
    Jerren Nixon
    Jerren Kendall Nixon is a Trinidad and Tobago football player, who currently plays as a forward for North East Stars in his country's Professional League.- Life and career :...

  • Jlloyd Samuel
    Jlloyd Samuel
    Jlloyd Samuel is a Trinidadian footballer who last played for Bolton Wanderers as a defender. He is a Trinidad and Tobago international.-Aston Villa:...

  • Joe Public F.C.
    Joe Public F.C.
    Joe Public Football Club is a football club from Trinidad and Tobago currently playing in the Pro League. Nicknamed the Eastern Lions, they are owned by former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner...

  • Joel John Bailey
    Joel John Bailey
    Joel John Bailey is a forward who last played for the Carolina RailHawks of the USL First Division. He played three seasons in Major Indoor Soccer League.-Indoor:...

  • Joey Carew
    Joey Carew
    Michael Conrad "Joey" Carew was a West Indian cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1963 to 1972. His sole test century came against New Zealand at Eden Park in 1969...

  • John Chancellor (British administrator)
    John Chancellor (British administrator)
    Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO was a British soldier and colonial official.After a career in the British Army's Corps of Royal Engineers, which included service on the North West Frontier and being Secretary of the Colonial Defence Committee, he became a...

  • John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury
    John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury
    John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury KCB, GCMG , known as the Honourable Sir John Manners-Sutton between 1866 and 1869, was a British Tory politician and colonial administrator....

  • John Stanley Beard
    John Stanley Beard
    John Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...

  • José Maria Chacón
    José Maria Chacón
    Don José María Chacón was the last Spanish Governor of Trinidad. He was responsible for signing the Cedula of Population in 1783 , moved the capital from San José de Oruña to Puerto de España in 1783, founded the city of San Fernando in 1784 and surrendered the island of Trinidad to a British...

  • Joseph Small
    Joseph Small
    Joseph A. Small was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test in their inaugural Test tour of England....

  • J'ouvert
    J'ouvert
    J'ouvert is a large street party during Carnival in the eastern Caribbean region. J'ouvert is a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or dawn/day break....

  • Jules Tavernier
    Jules Tavernier (EastEnders)
    Jules Tavernier is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Tommy Eytle between 1990 and 1997. Jules was depicted as a flirtatious older gentleman. He was introduced in 1990 and remained in the show after the departures of all of his on-screen family...

  • Julieon Raeburn
    Julieon Raeburn
    Julieon Raeburn is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 200 metres.He attended the Abilene Christian College in the United States.-Achievements:-External links:*...

  • Justin "Hero" Cassell

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  • K-os
    K-os
    Kevin Brereton , better known by his stage name k-os , is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer...

  • Kaiso
    Kaiso
    Kaiso is a type of music popular in Trinidad and other Islands of the Caribbean such as Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados and St. Kitts & Nevis which originated in West Africa, and later evolved into Calypso. Kaiso songs are generally narrative in form and often have a cleverly concealed political...

  • Kamla Persad-Bissessar
    Kamla Persad-Bissessar
    Kamla Persad-Bissessar is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the seventh person to hold this position...

  • Kapok
    Kapok
    Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae , native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and to tropical west Africa...

  • Karl Hudson-Phillips
    Karl Hudson-Phillips
    Karl Terrence Hudson-Phillips, ORTT, QC is a former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and a former judge of the International Criminal Court...

  • Kelle Jacob
  • Kelvin Jack
    Kelvin Jack
    Kelvin Kyron Jack is a Trinidadian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Maidstone United. He has earned 33 caps for Trinidad and Tobago since his international debut in 1997 and played for his country in the 2006 FIFA World Cup....

  • Kenneth J. Grant
    Kenneth J. Grant
    Rev. Kenneth J. Grant was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary who was one of the founding fathers of the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago. He also founded Naparima College in 1894, the first secondary school on the island...

  • Kenneth Ramchand
    Kenneth Ramchand
    Kenneth Ramchand, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of English at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies, former associate provost at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and an Independent Senator in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. Ramchand is a well known and widely...

  • Kenwyne Jones
    Kenwyne Jones
    Kenwyne Joel Jones is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and the Trinidad and Tobago national team. He previously played for Sunderland, Southampton, Stoke City, Sheffield Wednesday, W Connection and Joe Public.He began his football...

  • Kertson Manswell
    Kertson Manswell
    Kertson Manswell is a heavyweight boxer from Trinidad and Tobago.-Amateur:At the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manswell won the silver medal, losing the gold to Canadian Jason Douglas. Manswell again won silver at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, losing final to Victor Bisbal...

  • Keshia Chanté
    Keshia Chanté
    Keshia Chanté is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, model, and actress...

  • Kevin Baldeosingh
    Kevin Baldeosingh
    Kevin Baldeosingh is a Trinidadian newspaper columnist, author and Humanist, who has been involved in many controversial social issues. He now works with the Trinidad and Tobago Express as a writer on a freelance basis.-Writing:...

  • Kevon Pierre
    Kevon Pierre
    Kevon Pierre is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago. Pierre traveled to the 2005 World Championships having set personal bests in both 100 and 200 metres two months prior to the meet. He competed in the 200 metres contest, but was knocked out in the heats...

  • Khalid Hassanali
    Khalid Hassanali
    Khalid Hassanali, son of former President of Trinidad and Tobago, Noor Hassanali, is a Vice-President for Corporate Administrative Services at Petrotrin, the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Kieron Pollard
    Kieron Pollard
    Kieron Adrian Pollard is an international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard provides medium-fast pace bowling and big-hitting from the middle-order. After shining during the 2009 Champions League Twenty20, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and...

  • Kiss Baking Company Limited
    Kiss Baking Company Limited
    The Kiss Baking Company Ltd. is the leading Trinidadian firms that makes and markets packaged bakery goods. The company was founded in 1976. Kiss also acquired the rival company Coelho in 1989...

  • Knowlson Gift
    Knowlson Gift
    Knowlson Gift is a politician in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a member of the People's National Movement. Gift served as foreign minister between May 7 and May 17, 1995, but resigned in the face of allegations of financial improprieties at the end of his stint as High Commissioner to Jamaica, where...

  • Krishna Maharaj
    Krishna Maharaj
    Krishna Maharaj is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British businessman and brother of Ramesh Maharaj, former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1987 he was convicted by a Florida court for the double murders of Derrick Moo Young and his son, Duane Young, and was sentenced to death...


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  • La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago
    La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago
    La Brea is a town in southwestern Trinidad, located north of Point Fortin and south of Rousillac and San Fernando. La Brea is best known as the site of the Pitch Lake, a natural asphalt lake. Pronunciation of "La Brea" differs from that used in the USA at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles...

  • Lachesis (genus)
    Lachesis (genus)
    Lachesis is a genus of venomous pitvipers found in remote forested areas of Central and South America. The generic name refers to one of the Three Fates in Greek mythology who determined the length of the thread of life...

  • Lachesis muta
    Lachesis muta
    Lachesis muta is a venomous pitviper species found in South America. Two subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.-Description:...

  • Lakshmi Persaud
    Lakshmi Persaud
    Lakshmi Persaud is a Indo-Caribbean novelist. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939. She is classified also as a novelist of the Indian diaspora. Some of her writings are on Indo-Caribbean themes as well as themes of cultural change. She has published four novels...

  • Lall Sawh
    Lall Sawh
    Lall Ramnath Sawh CM, FRCS is a Trinidadian urologist in the Caribbean and Latin America. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Sawh pionerred kidney transplantation in the Caribbean in 1988 and has continued to be a leader in the field of urology...

  • Lance Pierre
    Lance Pierre
    Lancelot Richard Pierre was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1948....

  • Lancelot Layne
    Lancelot Layne
    -Person:Lancelot Layne was born to a Ms. Ethel Strawn and raised in Gonzales, Trinidad, a village near Port of Spain. He had a start in many local singing shows and showcase forums in and about Trinidad...

  • L'Anse Mitan
    L'Anse Mitan
    L'Anse Mitan is the name of both a road and a district located northeast of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. It is an alternative route to the nationally renowned La Retrait sea bathing spot. L'anse Mitan Road, at the mouth of the Moruga River, is noted as the site at which Christopher Columbus...

  • Laqtel
    Laqtel
    LaqTel Ltd. is a privately held up-start mobile phone and wireless service provider, of Trinidad and Tobago. Currently a division of Telcom Holdings Ltd. , LaqTel was first founded in 2002 by Dr...

  • Larry Gomes Stadium
    Larry Gomes Stadium
    The Larry Gomes Stadium, located in Malabar, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, is named for West Indies cricketer Larry Gomes. The stadium was constructed for the 2001 U-17 World Cup which was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago. It also hosted games from the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup....

  • Larry Gomes
    Larry Gomes
    Hilary Angelo Gomes is a former West Indian cricketer.He toured England with the West Indian Schoolboys team in 1967 and he made his first-class debut as a left-handed batsman for Trinidad and Tobogo versus the New Zealanders in 1971/72. He joined Middlesex in 1972 and played between 1973 and 1976...

  • Laventille
    Laventille
    -Etymology:The name Laventille hearkens back to colonial times, especially when the French dominated the cultural traditions of the island. One etymological derivation of the name is due to the fact that the northeast trade winds come to this part of the Island of Trinidad before it reached any...

  • Lawrence Scott
    Lawrence Scott
    Lawrence Scott is a novelist from Trinidad & Tobago, currently living in London and Trinidad. He is presently a Senior Research Fellow at The Academy for the Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs at the University of Trinidad & Tobago ....

  • Lazo (musician)
    Lazo (musician)
    Lazo is a Reggae musician from Dominica. He is from Castle Bruce, Dominica. He also holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto....

  • Leach's Storm-petrel
    Leach's Storm-petrel
    The Leach's Storm Petrel or Leach's Petrel is a small seabird of the tubenose family. It is named after the British zoologist William Elford Leach....

  • Learie Constantine
    Learie Constantine
    Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine MBE was a West Indian cricketer who played 18 Test matches before the Second World War. He took West Indies' first wicket in Test cricket and was the team's leading all-rounder and opening bowler for the entirety of his career...

  • Least Bittern
    Least Bittern
    The Least Bittern is a small wading bird, the smallest heron found in the Americas.This bird's underparts and throat are white with light brown streaks. Their face and the sides of the neck are light brown; they have yellow eyes and a yellow bill. The adult male is glossy greenish black on the...

  • Least Grebe
    Least Grebe
    The Least Grebe , an aquatic bird, is the smallest member of the grebe family. It occurs in the New World from the southwestern United States and Mexico to Chile and Argentina, and also on Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles.-Description:The Least Grebe ranges in length from...

  • Leatherback Sea Turtle
    Leatherback Sea Turtle
    The leatherback sea turtle is the largest of all living sea turtles and the fourth largest modern reptile behind three crocodilians. It is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys. It can easily be differentiated from other modern sea turtles by its lack of a bony shell. Instead, its...

  • Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago
    Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago served as an advisory commission to the Governor in British-ruled Trinidad and Tobago, between 1925 and independence in 1961. The Legislative Council consisted of a mixture of appointed and elected members...

  • Lendl Simmons
    Lendl Simmons
    Lendl Mark Platter Simmons is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman, an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler and a part-time wicket-keeper....

  • Lennox Butler
    Lennox Butler
    Lennox Stephen Butler was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955....

  • Lennox Mohammed
    Lennox Mohammed
    Lennox "Bobby" Mohammed is a musician and pannist from Trinidad.-Person:Lennox Mohammed grew up in San Fernando and visited the Presentation College. He was a founding member of the Gondoliers Steelband...

  • Lennox Sharpe
    Lennox Sharpe
    Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe is a successful and popular composer and arranger of Steelpan music.-Person:Sharpe began his career with Starlift where he worked as a co-arranger with Ray Holman...

  • Leon Romero
    Leon Romero
    Leon Constantine Romero is an American cricketer. A right-handed batsman, right-arm medium pace bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, he played two One Day Internationals for the United States national cricket team in the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, having previously played first-class and List A...

  • Leonson Lewis
    Leonson Lewis
    Leonson Lewis is a football coach and former player from Trinidad and Tobago. The striker got 30 caps and scored 21 goals for the national team between 1988 and 1996 .He currently coaches W Connection....

  • Leptodeira annulata
    Leptodeira annulata
    Leptodeira annulata is a medium-sized, mildly venomous, colubrid snake.-Geographic range:It is found in northern South America, Margarita, and Trinidad and Tobago.-Description:...

  • Leptophis ahaetulla
    Leptophis ahaetulla
    Leptophis ahaetulla, the Lora or Parrot Snake is a medium-sized slender snake of the colubrid family. It is found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Leptophis stimsoni
    Leptophis stimsoni
    The Grey Lora is a small snake which is endemic to Trinidad and Tobago. It is known from three specimens, all of which were collected in montane forests in the Northern Range.-References:...

  • Leslie Fitzpatrick
    Leslie Fitzpatrick
    Leslie "Tiger" Fitzpatrick is a Trinidadian soccer player who currently plays for Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division.-College:...

  • Leslie Stewart
    Leslie Stewart
    Leslie Matthew Stewart was an Trinidadian boxer.-Professional career:Known as "Laventille Tiger", Stewart turned professional in 1982 and challenged for the Vacant WBA Light Heavyweight Title in 1986, but was TKO'd by Marvin Johnson when the bout was stopped on cuts...

  • LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago
    LGBT rights in Trinidad and Tobago
    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons in Trinidad and Tobago may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity is illegal in Trinidad and Tobago...

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  • Limbo (dance)
    Limbo (dance)
    Limbo is a popular form of dance that originated on the island of Trinidad. The dancer moves to a Caribbean rhythm, then leans backward and dances under a horizontal pole without touching it. Upon touching it or falling backwards, the dancer is "out"...

  • Lincoln Roberts
    Lincoln Roberts
    Lincoln Roberts is a former West Indian cricketer who played 1 Test for West Indies and 51 first class games for Trinidad and Tobago.Roberts made his first class debut in 1996 after impressive one day form...

  • Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum
    Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum
    Linnaeus's Mouse Opossum , also known as the Common or Murine Mouse Opossum, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae.-Range and habitat:...

  • Lionel Belasco
    Lionel Belasco
    Lionel Belasco was a prominent pianist, composer and bandleader, best known for his calypso recordings. According to various sources, he was born either in Barbados or in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; he grew up in Trinidad, the son of an Afro-Caribbean mother and a Sephardic Jewish father...

  • Liophis cobellus
    Liophis cobellus
    The mangrove snake is a small semi-aquatic snake which is found in the Guianas, eastern Venezuela, and Trinidad and Tobago. It lives in lowland rainforest river floodplains and coastal mangrove swamps where it feeds on frogs, geckos and fish....

  • Liophis reginae
    Liophis reginae
    Liophis reginae, the High Woods Coral is a snake found in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on frogs, frog eggs, tadpoles, fish, small birds and lizards.-Subspecies:The following subspecies can be distinguished:...

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  • Literature of Trinidad and Tobago
    Literature of Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago literature has its roots in oral story telling among African slaves, the European literary roots of the French creoles and in the religious and folk tales of the Indian indentured immigrants. It blossomed in the twentieth century with the writings of C.L.R. James, V.S...

  • Little Blue Heron
    Little Blue Heron
    The Little Blue Heron, Egretta caerulea, is a small heron. It breeds from the Gulf states of the USA through Central America and the Caribbean south to Peru and Uruguay. It is a resident breeder in most of its range, but some northern breeders migrate to the southeastern USA or beyond in winter...

  • Little Tinamou
    Little Tinamou
    The Little Tinamou, Crypturellus soui, is found in Central America and South America.-Etymology:Crypturellus is formed from three Latin or Greek words. kruptos meaning covered or hidden, oura meaning tail, and ellus meaning diminutive...

  • Little Tobago
    Little Tobago
    250px|thumb|right|Looking across to [[Saint Giles Island|St. Giles Island]] from Little TobagoLittle Tobago is a small island off the northeastern coast of Tobago, and part of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Lord Beginner
    Lord Beginner
    Lord Beginner from Port-of-Spain in Trinidad was a popular exponent of the Caribbean musical form Calypso.-Person:...

  • Lord Invader
    Lord Invader
    Lord Invader was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice....

  • Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
    Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)
    Aldwyn Roberts , better known by the stage name Lord Kitchener , was one of the most internationally famous calypsonians. He was the son of a blacksmith, Stephen, and homemaker, Albertha.-Life:...

  • Lord Melody
    Lord Melody
    Lord Melody was a popular calypsonian, best known for singles such as the self-deprecating "Boo Boo Man", "Shame & Scandal", "Jonah and the Bake", "Juanita" and "Rastaman Be Careful"...

  • Louis Farrakhan
    Louis Farrakhan
    Louis Farrakhan Muhammad, Sr. is the leader of the African-American religious movement the Nation of Islam . He served as the minister of major mosques in Boston and Harlem, and was appointed by the longtime NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad, before his death in 1975, as the National Representative of...

  • Lyndon Andrews
    Lyndon Andrews
    Lyndon Andrews is a football midfielder from Trinidad and Tobago, who currently plays for Ma Pau SC.-International career:He earned 45 caps for the national team between 1996 and 2005....

  • Lynn Taitt
    Lynn Taitt
    Lynn Taitt was a reggae guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, closely associated with Jamaican rocksteady music.-Biography:...


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  • M. NourbeSe Philip
    M. NourbeSe Philip
    Marlene Nourbese Philip , usually credited as M. NourbeSe Philip, is a Canadian poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer.-Life and Works:...

  • Machel Montano
    Machel Montano
    Machel Montano is a soca singer, record producer and songwriter based in the Trinidad and Tobago....

  • Magella Moreau
  • Magnificent Frigatebird
    Magnificent Frigatebird
    The Magnificent Frigatebird was sometimes previously known as Man O'War, reflecting its rakish lines, speed, and aerial piracy of other birds....

  • Mamoncillo
    Mamoncillo
    Melicoccus bijugatus, commonly called Spanish lime, genip, guinep, genipe, quenepa, mamoncillo, or honeyberry, is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalised over a wide area of the tropics, including South and Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and parts...

  • Manny Ramjohn Stadium
    Manny Ramjohn Stadium
    The Manny Ramjohn Stadium, located in Marabella , Trinidad and Tobago, is named for long-distance runner Manny Ramjohn, the first person to win a gold medal for Trinidad and Tobago in a major international sporting event. The stadium was constructed for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Cup which was...

  • Manny Ramjohn
    Manny Ramjohn
    Manny Ramjohn was an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago, born in San Fernando, and educated at Naparima College in San Fernando....

  • Marabella
    Marabella
    Marabella is a former town in southern Trinidad, between San Fernando and Pointe-à-Pierre . Originally a separate town, it was incorporated into the City of San Fernando in the 1990s....

  • Maracas Beach
    Maracas Beach
    Maracas Beach is a beach on the island of Trinidad. It is located on the north side of the island, an hour's mountainous drive from the capital city of Port of Spain. Unlike many of the northern beaches of Trinidad, Maracas Beach is protected by a deep bay...

  • Maracas-Saint Joseph
    Maracas-Saint Joseph
    Maracas-Saint Joseph is a colloquial name used in Trinidad and Tobago to distinguish the Maracas Valley above the town of Saint Joseph from Maracas Beach...

  • Marc Burns
    Marc Burns
    Marc Burns is an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago specializing in the 100 metres and the 4x100 metres.Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified from his 100 metres heat, thus failing to make it through to the second round.Marc Burns placed second in the men's 100 metres dash...

  • The Marionettes Chorale
    The Marionettes Chorale
    The Marionettes Chorale of Trinidad and Tobago is one of the oldest performing arts organisations in the Caribbean. Formed in 1963, the choir has toured the Caribbean; North and Central America; and Great Britain; has won prizes at music festivals both in Trinidad & Tobago and internationally; has...

  • Mark Meredith
    Mark Meredith
    Mark Joseph Meredith was the second and last directly elected mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in England. An openly gay man and former amateur boxer he was elected on 5 May 2005, for the Labour Party, and defeated incumbent independent Mike Wolfe. In March 2009, Meredith was arrested on suspicion of...

  • Marlon Black
    Marlon Black
    Marlon Ian Black is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and five ODIs, debuting in the year 2000....

  • Marlon Rojas
    Marlon Rojas
    Marlon Rojas is a Trinidadian footballer who last played for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second Division.-College:...

  • Marvin Andrews
    Marvin Andrews
    Marvin Andrews is a Trinidadian football defender. He currently plays for Scottish Junior Club side Kirkintilloch Rob Roy....

  • Marvin Lee Stadium
    Marvin Lee Stadium
    Marvin Lee Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Macoya, Trinidad and Tobago which is housed together with the Dr. João Havelange Centre of Excellence. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Joe Public F.C....

  • Mary King (economist)
    Mary King (economist)
    Mary King is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, former Senator and former Minister of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs in the People's Partnership Government...

  • Mastigodryas boddaerti
    Mastigodryas boddaerti
    Mastigodryas boddaerti, the Machete Couesse is a snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on young birds, lizards and mice.-References:...

  • Maurice Henry Dorman
    Maurice Henry Dorman
    Sir Maurice Henry Dorman, GCMG, GCVO was the representative of the British Monarchy in Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Sierra Leone, and Malta. He studied at Cambridge University. He served in Sierra Leone from 1956 until 1962, for which he was knighted in 1957...

  • Maurice Hope
    Maurice Hope
    Maurice Hope is a former boxer from England, who was world Jr. Middleweight champion. Hope lived in Hackney most of his life, but now lives in his place of birth, Antigua. He represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.- Biography :Maurice Hope moved at a very...

  • Maximus Dan
    Maximus Dan
    Maximus Dan is a soca / dancehall musician. He is also known by his former stage name Maga Dan....

  • Mayaro
    Mayaro, Trinidad
    Mayaro is a town in Mayaro County on the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. The Rio Claro-Mayaro Regional Corporation is headquartered in Mayaro.-See also:* List of cities and towns in Trinidad and Tobago* Rio Claro, Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Media and Editorial Projects Limited
    Media and Editorial Projects Limited
    Media and Editorial Projects Limited is a private publishing company based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.The company was established in 1991 by Jeremy Taylor and Joanne Mendes...

  • Mervyn Dillon
    Mervyn Dillon
    Mervyn Dillon in Mission Village, Toco, Trinidad and Tobago, is a West Indian cricketer. He has played 38 in Tests and taken 131 wickets. He has also played 108 One Day Internationals from 1997-2004. At one stage, after the bowling greats Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose retired from...

  • Mervyn Grell
    Mervyn Grell
    Mervyn George Grell - A hard-hitting, lower-order batsman and a medium pace bowler, Mervyn Grell was born in Trinidad on December 18, 1899 and died in Cocorite on the same Caribbean island on January 11, 1976, aged 77. In a career spanning the years 1930 to 1937, he played only a handful of...

  • Mervyn M. Dymally
    Mervyn M. Dymally
    Mervyn Malcolm Dymally is a California Democratic politician of mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian heritage. He served in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate , as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California , and in the U.S. House of Representatives...

  • Michael Anthony (author)
    Michael Anthony (author)
    Michael Anthony, an eminent Caribbean author and historian, was born in Mayaro, Trinidad and Tobago on February 10, 1932 to Nathaniel Anthony and Eva Jones Lazarus. After an unsatisfying job as a young foundry worker in Pointe-à-Pierre for five years, he sought to become a journalist, but poems of...

  • Michael X
    Michael X
    Michael X , born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago to a Portuguese father and a Bajan-born mother, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He was also known as Michael Abdul Malik and Abdul Malik...

  • Michel-Jean Cazabon
    Michel-Jean Cazabon
    Michel-Jean Cazabon is regarded as the first great Trinidadian painter and is Trinidad's first internationally known artist. He is also known as the layman painter. He is renowned for his paintings of Trinidad scenery and for his portraits of planters, merchants and their family in the 19th century...

  • Mighty Bomber
    Mighty Bomber
    The Mighty Bomber is a sobriquet used by two calypsonians -* Kenny Cooper , a Trinidadian-born calypsonian who performed under than name beginning in the 1940s...

  • Mighty Gabby
    Mighty Gabby
    Anthony "Mighty Gabby" Carter is a legendary Barbadian calypsonian and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados. He is the youngest calypsonian to win the calypso crown in Barbados at age 19 in 1968 and went on to win the Calypso king title again in 1969, 1976, 1985, 1999, 2000 and again...

  • Mighty Panther
    Mighty Panther
    Native to Trinidad, Mighty Panther is a "legend" of Trinidadian calypso music. He has shared the stage with numerous calypsonians including "Charmer", aka Louis Farrakhan . At the age of 11 he found a gold pocket watch and he carries it around his neck, believing it brings him good...

  • Mighty Sparrow
    Mighty Sparrow
    Mighty Sparrow or Birdie is a calypso singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World," he is one of the most well-known and successful calypsonians...

  • Mighty Spoiler
    Mighty Spoiler
    Mighty Spoiler, born Theophilus Philip , was a Trinidadian calypsonian.Spoiler's career began in 1946 at the House of Lords Tent, and he soon became one of the most popular calypso singers, known for hits like "Bedbug", "Magistrate Try Himself", "Picking Sense out of Nonsense", "Royal Wedding" and...

  • Mighty Terror
    Mighty Terror
    Fitzgerald Henry , better known as the Mighty Terror, was a Trinidadian calypsonian.-Early career in Trinidad:His career started in 1947 and he first debuted at the Calypso Palace Tent in 1948...

  • Military of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Milner Hall
    Milner Hall
    Milner Hall is the largest and oldest of all the halls of residence owned by the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Minty Alley
    Minty Alley
    Minty Alley is a groundbreaking novel written by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James in the late 1920s, and published by Secker & Warburg in 1936, as West Indian literature was starting to flourish. It was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in England...

  • Monos
    Monos
    Monos is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela. It is so named as the island was once home to noisy Red Howler Monkeys .-References:...

  • Morvant
  • Mount Saint Benedict
    Mount Saint Benedict
    Mount Saint Benedict, or the Abbey of Our Lady of Exile, is a Benedictine abbey located in north Trinidad. It was founded in October 1912, by an order of monks from Brazil, after the Order of St Benedict of Italy...

  • Movement for National Development
  • Movement for National Transformation
  • Music of Trinidad and Tobago
    Music of Trinidad and Tobago
    Calypso music and steelpan is what Trinidad and Tobago is best known for, including internationally in the 1950s through artists like Lord Kitchener and Mighty Sparrow; the art form was most popularised at that time by Harry Belafonte...

  • Mustapha Matura
    Mustapha Matura
    Mustapha Matura is a Trinidadian playwright living in London.In 1971 his play As Time Goes By was first performed at the Traverse Theatre Club in Edinburgh and the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, with a cast of noted Caribbean actors including Stefan Kalipha, Alfred Fagon, Mona...


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  • Nadira Naipaul
    Nadira Naipaul
    Nadira, Lady Naipaul is a Pakistani journalist and the wife of novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul. She was born Nadira Khannum Alvi in Pakistan and was raised in Kenya. She worked as a journalist for Pakistani newspaper, The Nation for ten years before meeting Naipaul...

  • Naparima College
    Naparima College
    Naparima College is a secondary school for teenaged males in Trinidad and Tobago. Located in San Fernando, the school was founded in 1894, but did not receive official recognition until 1900. The was established by Dr. Kenneth J. Grant, a Canadian Presbyterian missionary working among the Indian...

  • Naparima Girls' High School
    Naparima Girls' High School
    Naparima Girls' High School is an all-girls high school in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. The school was founded in 1912 by Rev Dr. F. Coffin to complement the education offered to boys by Naparima College...

  • Nariva Swamp
    Nariva Swamp
    The Nariva Swamp is the largest freshwater wetland in Trinidad and Tobago and has been designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention...

  • Nariva
    Nariva
    Nariva is a county in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in eastern Trinidad, south of Saint Andrew and north of Mayaro, to the west by Victoria County and to the northwest by Saint George. The southern boundary of the county lies along the Ortoire River and the western boundary is Cocos Bay...

  • National Alliance for Reconstruction
    National Alliance for Reconstruction
    The National Alliance for Reconstruction was the governing party in Trinidad and Tobago between 1986 and 1991.-History:The party was established in 1986, aiming to be a multi-racial party...

  • National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago
    National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago
    The National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago consist of:* The Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - the country's highest award.* The Chaconia Medal of the Order of the Trinity - in Gold, Silver or Bronze...

  • National Broadcasting Service
    National Broadcasting Service
    The National Broadcasting Service was a state owned broadcasting station in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.-Early days:The precursor to the National Broadcasting Service was Radio Guardian established in 1957 by the Thompson Group, the British owners of the Trinidad Guardian newspaper. In...

  • National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago
    National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago
    The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited is a state-owned natural gas company. It was created by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in 1975. NGC is operating in the field of gas pipelines, industrial sites, gas production, port and marine infrastructure, natural gas liquids and...

  • National Joint Action Committee
    National Joint Action Committee
    The National Joint Action Committee is a black nationalist political party in Trinidad and Tobago.-History:The party was established in February 1969 by Makandal Daaga , who was dissatisfied with the fact that most businesses in Trinidad at the time were owned by the white minority...

  • National Library and Information System
    National Library and Information System
    The National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago was established in 1998. It is the legal deposit and copyright library for Trinidad and Tobago. The immediately preceding Librarian was Eintou Pearl Springer, appointed 1993. It is headquartered at the corner of Hart and...

  • National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad
    National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad
    The National Museum and Art Gallery is at the top of Frederick Street in Port of Spain, opposite Memorial Park and just south of the Queen's Park Savannah. It was established in 1892 and was originally called the Royal Victoria Institute....

  • National Team Unity
    National Team Unity
    National Team Unity is a political party in Trinidad and Tobago led by Human Rights lawyer and former Attorney General Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj....

  • National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago
  • National Transformation Movement
    National Transformation Movement
    The National Transformation Movement refers to two different political parties in Trinidad and Tobago, one led by businessman Mohammed Faisal Rahman which contested the 1995 General Elections and is currently moribund, another, led by retired Industrial Court judge Lloyd Elcock .The original NTM...

  • National Union of Freedom Fighters
    National Union of Freedom Fighters
    The National Union of Freedom Fighters was an armed revolutionary group in Trinidad and Tobago. Active in the 1970s, the group tried to stir up popular revolt against Eric Williams and the People's National Movement government in the wake of the failed Black Power Revolution of 1970...

  • National Union of Government and Federated Workers
  • National Workers' Union (Trinidad & Tobago)
  • NCC 4
    NCC 4
    Television 4 formerly The National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago ', is a television station serving Trinidad and Tobago. The station broadcasts on channels 4 and 16...

  • Neeshan Prabhoo
    Neeshan Prabhoo
    Neeshan Prabhoo, also known as "The Hitman" or ,"D'Hitman" is a Trinidad and Tobago chutney musician.His first chutney song was recorded in 1997, which was the popular hit "Don't Hold Me Back"...

  • Neil Bissoondath
    Neil Bissoondath
    Neil Devindra Bissoondath is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.-Biography:Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in...

  • Nelson Betancourt
    Nelson Betancourt
    Nelson Betancourt - was a cricketer who was a useful batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper and bowler. He was born in Trinidad on June 4, 1887 and died there on October 12, 1947, aged 60....

  • Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
    Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago
    Nelson Island, Trinidad and Tobago is one of the Five Islands which lie west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria.Nelson Island is famous as the disembarkation point and quarantine station for indentured immigrants to Trinidad and Tobago in the nineteenth and early twentieth century...

  • Neotropic Cormorant
    Neotropic Cormorant
    The Neotropic Cormorant or Olivaceous Cormorant is a medium-sized cormorant found throughout the American tropics and subtropics, from the middle Rio Grande and the Gulf and Californian coasts of the USA south through Mexico and Central America to southern South America. It also breeds on the...

  • Nicholas Tower
    Nicholas Tower
    Nicholas Tower, situated on Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago is the second tallest building in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has an elliptical floor plate and stands 21 floors tall and 88 Meters high. Construction was completed in 2003...

  • Nigel Henry
    Nigel Henry
    Nigel Henry is a retired Trinidadian soccer player.-Club:In 2001 Henry was signed by the Hershey Wildcats of the USL First Division where he and his teammates reached the USL First Division Championship game. In 2002 Henry was transferred to the Montreal Impact where he played seven games...

  • Nigel Pierre
    Nigel Pierre
    Nigel Pierre is a football striker from Trinidad and Tobago, who plays for United Petrotrin.-Career:"Pistol" Pierre as he was once known due to his fearsome shooting ability had a 3-month loan spell at Bristol Rovers F.C. in England in the 1999-2000 season but, after impressing, the move was...

  • Ninia atrata
    Ninia atrata
    Ninia atrata, the Red-nape Snake is a small terrestrial snake which is found in southern Central America, Ecuador, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. It is believed to feed on insect larvae and termites.-References:...

  • Noor Hassanali
    Noor Hassanali
    Noor Mohamed Hassanali,TC was the second President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago . A retired High Court judge, President Hassanali was the first Indo-Trinidadian to hold the office of President and was the first Muslim head of state in the Americas...

  • Norman Marshall
    Norman Marshall
    Norman Edgar Marshall was a West Indian cricketer. He was born in the Welchman Hall Plantation, Saint Thomas, Barbados and played in a Test match against Australia in 1955...

  • North America
    North America
    North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

  • North East Stars
    North East Stars
    The North East Stars are a professional football team, which currently plays in Trinidad and Tobago's Pro League. The team currently plays in Sangre Grande Regional Complex, in Sangre Grande, Trinidad.-History:...

  • Northern Gannet
    Northern Gannet
    The Northern Gannet is a seabird and is the largest member of the gannet family, Sulidae.- Description :Young birds are dark brown in their first year, and gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they reach maturity after five years.Adults are long, weigh and have a wingspan...

  • Northern Range
    Northern Range
    The Northern Range is the range of tall hills across the northern portion of Trinidad, the major island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The hills rise abruptly from the lowlands of northern Trinidad , but only the two tallest peaks, El Cerro del Aripo and El Tucuche top 900 m...

  • Nyron Asgarali
    Nyron Asgarali
    Nyron Sultan Asgarali was a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1957....


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  • Obeah
    Obeah
    Obeah is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices derived from West African, and specifically Igbo origin. Obeah is similar to other African derived religions including Palo, Voodoo, Santería, rootwork, and most of all hoodoo...

  • Oberlin Steel
    Oberlin Steel
    Oberlin Steel is a steel band based at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Originally known as the Oberlin Can Consortium until 2001, the group plays in the tradition of the great steel bands of Trinidad, but also performs arrangements of salsa, calypso, and jazz as well as original compositions and...

  • Ocelot
    Ocelot
    The ocelot , pronounced /ˈɒsəˌlɒt/, also known as the dwarf leopard or McKenney's wildcat is a wild cat distributed over South and Central America and Mexico, but has been reported as far north as Texas and in Trinidad, in the Caribbean...

  • Oilbird
    Oilbird
    The Oilbird , also known as Guácharo, is a bird found in the northern areas of South America . They are nocturnal feeders on the fruits of the Oil Palm and tropical laurels, and are the only nocturnal fruit eating birds in the world...

  • Oilfields Workers' Trade Union
    Oilfields Workers' Trade Union
    The Oilfields Workers Trade Union or OWTU is one of the most powerful trade unions in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently led by Ancil Roget, the union was born out of the 1937 labour riots, the union was nominally led by the imprisoned TUB Butler but was actually organised by lawyer Adrian Cola Rienzi...

  • ONE Caribbean Media
    ONE Caribbean Media
    One Caribbean Media Ltd. is a vertically integrated holding company based in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The new company was founded in December, 2005 following the merger of the Caribbean Communications Network of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Nation Corporation of Barbados...

  • Organisation for National Reconstruction
    Organisation for National Reconstruction
    The Organisation for National Reconstruction was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party received the second-highest number of votes in the 1981 general elections, but failed to win a seat...

  • Oxybelis aeneus
    Oxybelis aeneus
    Oxybelis aeneus, the Mexican Vine Snake or Brown Vine Snake, is a colubrid snake that ranges from southern Arizona in the United States, through Mexico to northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds mainly on lizards, but also eats frogs and birds.This is an extremely slender snake...

  • Oxyrhopus petola
    Oxyrhopus petola
    Oxyrhopus petola, the False Coral is a snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. The species is rear-fanged and its saliva is extremely toxic to Anolis lizards. They feed on lizards, frogs, small rodents, birds and probably other snakes.-References:-External links:*...


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  • Paca
    Paca
    The Lowland Paca , also known as the Spotted Paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from East-Central Mexico to Northern Argentina...

  • Palo Seco Velodrome
    Palo Seco Velodrome
    Palo Seco Velodrome is a multi-use stadium in Palo Seco, Trinidad and Tobago. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of United Petrotrin. The stadium holds 10,000 people....

  • Pan Pipers Music School
    Pan Pipers Music School
    The Pan Pipers Music School is a music school in St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. It was founded by Miss Louise McIntosh who was a student of the Trinidadian musician Winifred Atwell....

  • Paolo Kernahan
    Paolo Kernahan
    Paolo Kernahan is a television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.He was a reporter for Trinidad and Tobago Television for several years before moving to CCN TV6 to host the Morning Edition programme...

  • Parang
    Parang
    Parang is a popular folk music originating out of Trinidad and Tobago, it was brought to Trinidad by Venezuelan migrants who were primarily of Amerindian and African heritage, something which is strongly reflected in the music itself. The word is derived from two Spanish words:'Parranda', meaning...

  • The Parliament Channel
    The Parliament Channel
    The Parliament Channel is a cable television station in Trinidad and Tobago which broadcasts on cable channel 11. It broadcasts proceedings of the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. It's headquarters are located at Tower D, Levels G-7, Port of Spain Waterfront Centre, 1A Wrightson Road, Port of...

  • Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
    Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is the legislative branch of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. The Parliament is bicameral. It consists of the elected House of Representatives, which has 43 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies, and the Senate which has 31...

  • Patrice Roberts
    Patrice Roberts
    Patrice Roberts is a soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. She currently performs alongside popular fellow Soca artist Machel Montano in his band, Machel Montano HD...

  • Patrick Manning
    Patrick Manning
    Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning was the fourth and sixth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the former Political Leader of the People's National Movement . He served as Prime Minister from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and held that office again from 24 December 2001 until 26...

  • Patrick Trueman
    Patrick Trueman
    Patrick Neville Loftus Alfonso Trueman is a fictional character from the popular British BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Rudolph Walker. He made his first appearance on 13 September 2001.-Backstory:...

  • Peardrax
    Peardrax
    Whiteway's Peardrax is a pear-flavoured fizzy soft drink popular in Trinidad and Tobago. It originated in the United Kingdom, and was first manufactured by Whiteway's, a now-defunct cider company founded in Whimple during the 19th century...

  • Pearl Primus
    Pearl Primus
    Pearl Primus was a dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the needs to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance...

  • Penal
    Penal
    Peneral is a town in south Trinidad. It lies south of San Fernando and Debe, and north of Siparia. Originally a rice and cocoa producing area, Penal has grown into an important town in the past few years and is now a desirable place for corporate expansion...

  • Penal-Debe Regional Corporation
    Penal-Debe Regional Corporation
    Penal-Debe Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 246.91 km². Urban areas within Penal-Debe Regional Corporation include Penal, where the corporation is headquartered, and Debe.-Areas:...

  • People's Democratic Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
    People's Democratic Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The People's Democratic Party was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Under the leadership of Bhadase Sagan Maraj it contested the 1956 General Elections, capturing 5 of 24 elected seats in the Legislative Council and 20.3% of the vote...

  • People's Liberation Movement
  • People's National Movement
    People's National Movement
    The People's National Movement is the present-day opposition political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1955 by Eric Williams, it won the 1956 General Elections and went on to hold power for an unbroken 30 years. After the death of Williams in 1981 George Chambers led the party...

  • Pete de Freitas
    Pete de Freitas
    Pete Louis Vincent de Freitas was a musician and producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen, and whose drumming skills have been compared to Dave Grohl's....

  • Peter Minshall
    Peter Minshall
    Peter Minshall is a Trinidadian Carnival artist .-Early life and career beginnings:...

  • Petit Trou
    Petit Trou
    Petit Trou is a small town in the northeast of Trinidad. It is the closest town in Trinidad to Tobago, which lies only 19 kilometers to the north. It is near Galera Point, the northern most point in Trinidad....

  • Petrotrin
    Petrotrin
    Petrotrin, the Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago is the major State-owned oil company in Trinidad and Tobago. The company was established in 1993 by the merger of Trintopec and Trintoc, two state-owned oil companies. A third company, Trinmar was later merged into the company...

  • Phase II Pan Groove
    Phase II Pan Groove
    -Band:Based in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Phase II is one of the leading steelbands in Trinidad and Tobago. Most closely associated with arranger and composer Len "Boogsie" Sharpe, Phase II was the first band to win a Panorama title playing an original composition. In 2005 they won the Panorama...

  • Phil Simmons
    Phil Simmons
    Philip Veraint Simmons is a former skilled all-round cricketer who played as an opening batsman a useful bowler and a talented slip fielder.-Career:...

  • Philip Sealy
    Philip Sealy
    Philip Sealy is the Permanent Representative for Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations. His full title is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General...

  • Piarco International Airport
    Piarco International Airport
    Piarco International Airport is the main airport serving Trinidad and Tobago located in Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad, about east of the capital city, Port of Spain. It is one of two international airports serving the twin isle republic. The other is located on the island of Tobago, A.N.R...

  • Piarco
    Piarco
    Piarco, a town in northern Trinidad, is the site of Piarco International Airport . It also includes the village of St. Helena. Piarco is the site of one of the few natural savannas in Trinidad and Tobago, the Piarco Savanna...

  • Pichakaree
    Pichakaree
    Pichakaree is an Indo-Trinidadian musical form which originated in Trinidad and Tobago. It is named after the long syringe-like tubes used to spray abir during Phagwah celebrations....

  • Pied-billed Grebe
    Pied-billed Grebe
    The Pied-billed Grebe is a species of the grebe family of water birds. Since the Atitlán Grebe, Podilymbus gigas, has become extinct, it is the sole extant member of the genus Podilymbus.-Description:...

  • Pigeon Point, Tobago
    Pigeon Point, Tobago
    Pigeon Point is also known as Pigeon Point Heritage ParkPigeon Point Heritage Park is often considered Tobago’s most beautiful beach and is home to the famous thatch-roofed jetty which has become an internationally recognised signature of Tobago. The resort includes a long stretch of white sand...

  • Piparo
    Piparo
    Piparo is a village in Central Trinidad on the southern edge of the Central Range. The village has three main claims to fame:# Piparo was the base of operations of Dole Chadee , a notorious drug lord who was executed in 1999 for the murder of four members of the Baboolal family.# Piparo was the...

  • Pitch Lake
    Pitch Lake
    The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world, located at La Brea in southwest Trinidad, within the Siparia Regional Corporation. The lake covers about 40 ha and is reported to be 75 m deep....

  • Point Fortin
    Point Fortin
    Point Fortin, the smallest Borough in Trinidad and Tobago, is located in southwestern Trinidad, about southwest of San Fernando. After the discovery of petroleum in the area in 1906 the town grew into a major oil-producing centre. The town grew with the oil industry between the 1940s and 1980s,...

  • Point Lisas
    Point Lisas
    Point Lisas is the site of the Point Lisas Industrial Estate and the Port of Point Lisas, both of which are managed by Plipdeco...

  • Pointe-à-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust
    Pointe-à-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust
    Founded in 1966, the Pointe-à-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust is a not for profit environmental non-government organisation dedicated to environmental education and the conservation of wetlands and waterfowl...

  • Pointe-à-Pierre
    Pointe-à-Pierre
    Pointe-à-Pierre is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies north of San Fernando and south of Claxton Bay. It is most famous as the site of the country's largest oil refinery which is run by Petrotrin, the state-owned oil company....

  • Politics of Trinidad and Tobago
    Politics of Trinidad and Tobago
    The politics of Trinidad and Tobago function within the framework of a unitary state regulated by a parliamentary democracy modelled on that of the UK, from which the country gained its independence in 1962...

  • Port of Spain
    Port of Spain
    Port of Spain, also written as Port-of-Spain, is the capital of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the country's third-largest municipality, after San Fernando and Chaguanas. The city has a municipal population of 49,031 , a metropolitan population of 128,026 and a transient daily population...

     on Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

     – Capital of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Port of Spain General Hospital
    Port of Spain General Hospital
    Port of Spain General Hospital is a hospital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.It is located on Charlotte Street in the city and serves as the main hospital.-External links:http://www3.oag.com/Cities/Detail?city=370&cat=29&item=292015...

  • Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre
    Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre
    The Port of Spain International Waterfront Centre is a construction project aimed at revitalizing and transforming the waterfront of the capital-city Port of Spain located in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Presentation College Chaguanas
    Presentation College Chaguanas
    Presentation College, Chaguanas is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago and is the brother school of Presentation College, San Fernando.-History:...

  • Presentation College, San Fernando
  • President of Trinidad and Tobago
    President of Trinidad and Tobago
    The President of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of state of Trinidad and Tobago, and the commander in chief of its armed forces. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1976, before which the head of state was Queen Elizabeth II...

  • Princes Town Regional Corporation
    Princes Town Regional Corporation
    Princes Town Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 621.35 km². The Princes Town Regional Corporation is headquartered in Princes Town. Other towns include Moruga.-References:...

  • Princes Town
    Princes Town
    Princes Town is a town in southern Trinidad .Originally founded as the Amerindian Mission of Savana Grande, the town was renamed after the 1880 visit by Queen Victoria's grandsons, Prince Albert and Prince George...

  • Prior Jones
    Prior Jones
    Prior Erskine Waverley Jones was a West Indian cricketer who played in nine Tests from 1947-48 to 1951-52....

  • Priority Bus Route
  • Professional Football League (Trinidad and Tobago)
    Professional Football League (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The TT Pro League is a league for professional association football clubs in Trinidad and Tobago. At the top of the Trinidad and Tobago football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league currently comprises 8 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation...

  • Pseudoboa neuwiedii
    Pseudoboa neuwiedii
    Pseudoboa neuwiedii more commonly known as the Ratonel is a snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Growing to a maximum size of 1 m, this snake is a powerful constrictor which feeds on any animal it can capture and subdue...

  • Pseustes poecilonotus
    Pseustes poecilonotus
    The Dos Cocorite is a snake which is found in Amazonian South America, the Guianas, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on frogs, lizards, birds, and small mammals.-References:...

  • Pseustes sulphureus
    Pseustes sulphureus
    Pseustes sulphureus, the Yellow-bellied Puffing Snake, is a large snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Adults feed on small mammals and birds, while juveniles feed on lizards, mice and rats....


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  • Radio in Trinidad and Tobago
    Radio in Trinidad and Tobago
    The radio programming in Trinidad and Tobago caters to a diverse ethnic demographic. The genesis of radio broadcasting in Trinidad and Tobago was Radio Trinidad in 1947 .These stations cover both the AM and FM...

  • Radio Trinidad
    Radio Trinidad
    Radio Trinidad is the oldest radio station in Trinidad and Tobago. It started broadcasting in 1947 at 11 Maraval Road in Port of Spain on the frequency 730 AM. It had programs like soap operas, news, and passing parade...

  • Raffique Shah
    Raffique Shah
    Raffique Shah is a Trinidad and Tobago trade union leader and political commentator. He is also a former Member of Parliament and mutineer, having led a mutiny of Trinidad and Tobago Regiment in 1970. He was born the son of a sugar cane worker and housewife in March 1946. His early education was...

  • Rajindra Dhanraj
    Rajindra Dhanraj
    Rajindra Dhanraj was a cricket player for the West Indies for a short while. He played only four Tests and six One Day Internationals. Later, he was more successful playing for the Trinidad & Tobago team....

  • Rakesh Yankaran
    Rakesh Yankaran
    Rakesh Yankaran, nicknamed "The Raja" is an award-winning chutney musician from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the son of classical Indian musician Isaac Yankaran and brother of chutney musician Anand Yankaran....

  • Ralph Abercromby
    Ralph Abercromby
    Sir Ralph Abercromby was a Scottish soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, and was...

  • Ralph Legall
    Ralph Legall
    Ralph Archibald Legall was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1953....

  • Ralph Maraj
    Ralph Maraj
    Ralph Maraj is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, playwright and teacher. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under a People's National Movement administration, Minister of Communication and Information Technology under a United National Congress administration, and was a founding member of...

  • Ramesh Maharaj
    Ramesh Maharaj
    -Early life:Mr. Maharaj had over 30 years experience in the legal profession having been admitted to practice at the English Bar in 1967. He had been in private practice as Senior Partner in the chambers of Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Company. He had also been admitted to practice as an attorney...

  • Rangy Nanan
    Rangy Nanan
    Rangy Nanan is a former West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1980....

  • Raphick Jumadeen
    Raphick Jumadeen
    Raphick Rasif Jumadeen is a former West Indian cricketer who played in twelve Tests from 1972 to 1979....

  • Rapso
    Rapso
    Rapso is a form of Trinidadian music that grew out of the social unrest of the 1970s. It has been described as "de power of de word in the riddim of de word". Though often described as a fusion of native soca with American hip hop, rapso is uniquely Trinidadian.Black Power and unions grew in the...

  • Ras Shorty I
    Ras Shorty I
    Ras Shorty I was a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man.He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago, and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit "Clock and Dagger" and took on the name Ras Shorty .He started out writing songs and performing in the...

  • Ravi Rampaul
    Ravi Rampaul
    Ravindranath Rampaul is a West Indian cricketer. He is the first quick bowler of Indian descent to represent West Indies at international level, playing Tests, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals...

  • The Red House (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The Red House (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The Red House is the seat of Parliament in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The architectural design of the Red House is of Greek revival style. The original building was destroyed in the 1903 water riots and was rebuilt in the year 1907. The Red House is located centrally within the capital...

  • Red Plastic Bag
    Red Plastic Bag
    Stedson Wiltshire, better known by the sobriquet of Red Plastic Bag, RPB, or merely Bag, is a calypsonian from Barbados. He has won the Barbadian calypso monarch competition a record nine times. Hailing from the eastern, rural Barbadian parish of Saint Philip, RPB became one of few performers from...

  • Red-billed Tropicbird
    Red-billed Tropicbird
    The Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus, also known as the Boatswain Bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans.-Distribution and habitat:...

  • Red-footed Booby
    Red-footed Booby
    The Red-footed Booby, Sula sula, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae. As suggested by the name, adults always have red feet, but the colour of the plumage varies. They are powerful and agile fliers, but they are clumsy in takeoffs and landings...

  • Red-tailed Boa
  • Regional Corporations and Municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago
    Regional Corporations and Municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago
    -Trinidad:Historically, Trinidad was divided into eight counties.-Tobago:Tobago is governed locally by the Tobago House of Assembly.Historically, Tobago was divided into seven parishes . In 1768 each parish of Tobago had nominated representatives to the Tobago House of Assembly...

  • Religion in Trinidad and Tobago
    Religion in Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago is a multi-religious nation. The largest religious groups are the Roman Catholics and Hindus; the Anglicans, Muslims, Presbyterians, Methodist are among the smaller faiths...

  • Rex Lassalle
    Rex Lassalle
    Reginald Andrew Lassalle, better known as Rex Lassalle was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1945. He attended Belmont Boys Intermediate School and St. Mary's College, Port of Spain...

  • Ria Ramnarine
    Ria Ramnarine
    Ria Ramnarine , is a professional boxer and the first female world boxing champion from that country. She made her boxing debut in Port of Spain on December 9, 1999, and won the WIBA Mini Flyweight World title on May 27, 2005 at the Jean Pierre Sports Complex in Port of Spain...

  • Richard Cook
    Richard Cook
    Richard David Cook was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive.Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey and lived in west London as an adult. He was co-author, with Brian Morton, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings , now in its ninth...

  • Richard Goddard
  • Richard Kelly (cricketer)
    Richard Kelly (cricketer)
    Richard Alexander Kelly, born 19 February 1984 in Trinidad, is a West Indian cricketer. He plays first-class and List A cricket for Trinidad and Tobago. He is known for his hard hitting and accurate swing bowling. He was named the best allrounder in the West Indies after his performances in the...

  • Richard S. Gabriel
    Richard S. Gabriel
    Richard Simeon Gabriel is a West Indian cricketer. He played 11 One Day Internationals for the West Indies in 1984....

  • Rick Titus
  • Rikki Jai
    Rikki Jai
    Rikki Jai is an Trinidadian chutney-soca artiste born Samraj Jaimungal in Friendship Village, San Fernando.-Career:Jai's 1988 debut single Sumintra told the tale of an Indo-Trinidadian woman from Debe who informed her boyfriend of her preference for soca over the music of Indian artist Lata...

  • Rio Claro, Trinidad and Tobago
    Rio Claro, Trinidad and Tobago
    Rio Claro is the largest town in southeastern Trinidad, in Trinidad and Tobago. Rio Claro lies east of Princes Town, west of Mayaro and northwest of Guayaguayare. It serves as the major commercial centre for southeastern Trinidad. It lies in a primarily agricultural area...

  • Rio Claro-Mayaro Regional Corporation
    Rio Claro-Mayaro Regional Corporation
    Rio Claro-Mayaro Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 852.81 km². The Rio Claro-Mayaro Regional Corporation is headquartered in Mayaro...

  • Road March
  • Roaring Lion
    Roaring Lion
    Roaring Lion was a calypsonian...

  • Robert Antoni
    Robert Antoni
    Robert Antoni is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head".- Background :...

  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy
    Robert John Lechmere Guppy
    Robert John Lechmere Guppy was a British-born naturalist after whom the guppy is named...

  • Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor, Rob or Bob Taylor may refer to:*Robert Taylor , British general of the late eighteenth century*Robert Taylor , American computer scientist...

  • Robin Singh
    Robin Singh
    Robin Singh , full name Rabindra Ramanarayan Singh is a former all-rounder who played for India. He is currently the coach of Mumbai Indians...

  • Roger Joseph
    Roger Joseph
    Roger Anthony Joseph is a former footballer who is most notable for playing for Wimbledon and then going on to play for AFC Wimbledon...

  • Roger Sant
    Roger Sant
    Roger Sant is a television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently the head of the sports department and the primary sports anchor for Cable News Channel 3....

  • Roger Toussaint
    Roger Toussaint
    Roger Toussaint was the President of Transport Workers Union Local 100, the union of New York City Transit Authority employees in New York City and is now Vice President of Strategic Planning for the parent union, an international organization.-Early life:Toussaint emigrated to New York from...

  • Roi Kwabena
    Roi Kwabena
    Dr. Roi Ankhkara Kwabena was a cultural anthropologist, who worked with all age ranges in Europe, Africa, Latin-America and the Caribbean for over 30 years....

  • Rolph Grant
    Rolph Grant
    Rolph Stewart Grant was a West Indian cricketer who captained them in their 1939 tour of England.Grant was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.-References:...

  • Roman Catholicism in Trinidad and Tobago
    Roman Catholicism in Trinidad and Tobago
    The Roman Catholic Church in Trinidad and Tobago is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. The apostolic nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago is American archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson, who is also the apostolic nuncio to most other...

  • Romany Malco
    Romany Malco
    Romany Romanic Malco, Jr. is an American actor and music producer. He has been nominated for several awards, including an NAACP Image Award, MTV Movie Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award. Malco portrayed Conrad Shepard on the Showtime series Weeds. He most recently played George St...

  • Roseate Spoonbill
    Roseate Spoonbill
    The Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae...

  • Roy Joseph
    Roy Joseph
    Roy Adolphus Joseph was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He served as Mayor of San Fernando, Member of the Legislative Council, Minister of Education and Social Services, and Member of the Federal Parliament of the West Indies Federation....

  • Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
    Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago was one of the larger commercial banks of Trinidad and Tobago. As a subsidiary of RBTT Financial Holdings Limited, RBTT was one of the largest commercial banking corporations in the Caribbean region with a group asset base of over US$6.2 billion dollars...

  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad
    The Royal Botanic Gardens in Trinidad is located in Port of Spain. The Gardens, which were established in 1818, are situated just north of the Queen's Park Savannah. This is one of the oldest Botanic Gardens in the world. The landscaped site occupies 61.8 acres and contains some 700 trees.The...

  • Rudranath Capildeo
    Rudranath Capildeo
    Dr. Rudranath Capildeo was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and mathematician. He was the Leader of the Democratic Labour Party from 1960–1969 and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament from 1961–1963, succeeding Ashford Sinanan. He was also a faculty member at the University of London, eventually...

  • Rufous-vented Chachalaca
    Rufous-vented Chachalaca
    The Rufous-vented Chachalaca, Ortalis ruficauda, is a member of an ancient group of birds of the Cracidae family, which are related to the Australasian mound builders. It inhabits northeast Colombia and northern Venezuela where it is called Guacharaca, and in Tobago where it is known as the Cocrico...

  • Rum and Coca-Cola
    Rum and Coca-Cola
    “Rum and Coca-Cola” is the title of a popular calypso. Originally composed by Lord Invader and Lionel Belasco, it was copyrighted in the United States by entertainer Morey Amsterdam and became a huge hit in 1945 for the Andrews Sisters, spending ten weeks at the top of Billboard's U.S...

  • Rupee (musician)
    Rupee (musician)
    Rupert Clarke , best known by his stage name Rupee, is a soca musician from Barbados. He was born in military barracks in Germany to a German mother and a Bajan father, who was serving in the British armed forces at the time. He later migrated to Barbados...

  • Russell Latapy
    Russell Latapy
    Russell Nigel Latapy is a Trinidad and Tobago footballer who plays for Edinburgh City as an attacking midfielder.In a senior career which spanned more than 20 years at both club and international level, he played in Portugal and Scotland .Latapy...


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  • S.M. Jaleel and Company
  • Saint Andrew, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Andrew, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Andrew is a county in Trinidad and Tobago which occupies . It is located in northeastern Trinidad, east of Saint George County, south of Saint David County and north of Nariva County. To the east it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean. The major town in the county is Sangre Grande...

  • Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
    St. Augustine, a town on the East-West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago, is the site of one of the four campuses of the University of the West Indies. It is located east of Curepe and west of Tunapuna....

  • Saint Benedict's College
    Saint Benedict's College
    St. Benedict's College is a secondary school located in La Romaine, Trinidad and Tobago. The school was founded by Dom Basil Matthews and first opened on September 11th, 1956.-History:...

  • Saint David, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint David, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint David is a county in Trinidad and Tobago which occupies in the northeastern corner of the island of Trinidad. The main town in the county is Toco. It is bounded to the north by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Saint Andrew County and to the west by...

  • Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint George is a county in Trinidad and Tobago. It occupies the northwestern portion of the island of Trinidad and is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the north, the Gulf of Paria to the west, Caroni County to the south and Saint David County and Saint Andrew County to the east. It occupies an...

  • Saint Giles Island
    Saint Giles Island
    The St Giles Island is a small island off the northeast tip of Tobago. It is the northernmost point in Trinidad and Tobago.-See also:* Islands of Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago
    St. Joseph is the oldest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Originally named San José de Oruña, it served as the capital of Spanish Trinidad between 1592 and 1783....

  • Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Mary's College, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Mary's College is a government-assisted Catholic secondary school situated on Frederick Street in the heart of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The school was established in 1863 with only a handful of students but enrollment today is close to 1200. The school's motto 'Virtus et Scientia'...

  • Saint Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Patrick, Trinidad and Tobago
    Saint Patrick is a county in Trinidad and Tobago which occupies an area of 673 km2 . It occupies the southwestern peninsula of the island of Trinidad and is bounded by the Columbus Channel to the south, the Gulf of Paria to the west, and Victoria to the north. It includes the towns of Point...

  • Sam Manning
  • Samantha John
  • Sammy Guillen
    Sammy Guillen
    Simpson Clairmonte Guillen is one of the few men to have played Test cricket for two countries...

  • Sampson Nanton
    Sampson Nanton
    Sampson Nanton , is an award-winning journalist and television news presenter in Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently the Deputy Head of News and Co-Anchor at CNC3 Television.-Career history:...

  • Samuel Herbert Wilson
    Samuel Herbert Wilson
    Brigadier General Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson, GCMG, KCB, KBE was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1921 and 1924. He did much to popularise football, offering a Wilson Cup for football....

  • Samuel Selvon
    Samuel Selvon
    Samuel Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer. Selvon was educated at Naparima College, San Fernando before moving to London, England in the 1950s, and later to Alberta, Canada. He is known for novels such as The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending...

  • Samuel William Knaggs
    Samuel William Knaggs
    Sir Samuel William Knaggs, KCMG was a British colonial administrator.Knaggs was born in Old Swindon, Wiltshire, England, the second of the ten children of Robert Knaggs, a surgeon, and Harriet Eliza Knaggs ....

  • San Fernando Hill
    San Fernando Hill
    San Fernando Hill is a 192-m hill which lies at the centre of the city of San Fernando in Trinidad and Tobago. The hill, an outcrop of Argillite is the highest point in the Naparima Plains...

  • San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
    San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
    The City of San Fernando with a population of 55,419 according to the 2000 census, is the larger of Trinidad and Tobago's two cities and the second largest municipality after Chaguanas. It occupies 18 km² and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad...

  • San Juan Jabloteh
    San Juan Jabloteh
    San Juan Jabloteh is a football club located in San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago that currently plays in the country's Pro League. The team plays its home games in Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad.- History :...

  • San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
    San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
    San Juan is a town in Trinidad and Tobago. It lies in North Eastern Trinidad, between Barataria and St. Joseph.It is a busy town in the East-West Corridor; the centre of town is known as the Croisee. Population is 54,900 , and it is the third city of the country, larger than the capital. San Juan...

  • San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation
    San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation
    San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation is a Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 220.39 km². The San Juan-Laventille Regional Corporation is headquartered in Aranguez. Other urban areas include Barataria, Laventille, Morvant, St. Joseph and San Juan. It is the...

  • Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha
    Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha
    The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha is the major Hindu organisation in Trinidad and Tobago. It operates 150 mandirs and over 50 schools. It was formed in 1952 when Bhadase Sagan Maraj engineered the merger of the Satanan Dharma Association and the Sanatan Dharma Board of Control. An affiliated group,...

  • Sangre Grande Regional Complex
    Sangre Grande Regional Complex
    Sangre Grande Regional Complex is a multi-use stadium in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of North East Stars. The stadium holds 7,000 people....

  • Sangre Grande Regional Corporation
    Sangre Grande Regional Corporation
    Sangre Grande Regional Corporation is a Local Government Body and the largest Regional Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago. It has a land area of 898.94 km². The Sangre Grande Regional Corporation is headquartered in Sangre Grande. Other urban areas within include Guaico, Toco and Valencia...

  • Sangre Grande
    Sangre Grande
    Sangre Grande is the largest town in northeastern Trinidad, in Trinidad and Tobago. It is east of Arima and southwest of Toco. Sangre Grande is sometimes abbreviated to just "Grande". It is the seat of the Sangre Grande Regional Corporation. The town falls into the Toco/Sangre constituency of the...

  • Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago
    Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago
    The Santa Cruz Valley stretches between Maraval and San Juan, along the Saddle Road. It lies between the hills of the Northern Range on the island of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago....

  • Santa Rosa Carib Community
    Santa Rosa Carib Community
    The Santa Rosa Carib Community is the major organisation of indigenous people in Trinidad and Tobago. The Caribs of Arima are descended from the original Amerindian inhabitants of Trinidad; Amerindians from the former encomiendas of Tacarigua and Arauca were resettled to Arima between 1784 and 1786...

  • Satnarayan Maharaj
    Satnarayan Maharaj
    Satnarayan Maharaj Chaconia Medal is a religious, cultural and political leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, the major Hindu organisation in Trinidad and Tobago. He also writes op-ed contributions in many newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Scarborough, Tobago
    Scarborough, Tobago
    Scarborough, Tobago is the largest town in Tobago, one of the two main islands of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Its population is around 17,000, almost one-third of the population of the island. The town is dominated by Fort King George, an 18th century fortification named after King George...

  • Scarlet Ibis
    Scarlet Ibis
    The Scarlet Ibis is a species of ibis that inhabits tropical South America and also Trinidad and Tobago. It is the national bird of Trinidad and is featured on the Trinidad and Tobago coat of arms along with Tobago's national bird, the Rufous-vented Chachalaca.-Taxonomy:This species is very...

  • Scott Sealy
    Scott Sealy
    Scott Ryan Sealy is a Trinidadian footballer who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.-College:Sealy played college soccer at Wake Forest from 2001 to 2004, where he played in 83 games, starting 73...

  • The Scout Association of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Scout Association of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Scout Association of Trinidad and Tobago is the national Scouting organization of Trinidad and Tobago. Scouting was founded in Trinidad and Tobago in 1911 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1963...

  • Scouting in Trinidad and Tobago
    Scouting in Trinidad and Tobago
    The Scout and Guide movement in Trinidad and Tobago is served by* The Girl Guides Association of Trinidad and Tobago, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts...

  • Sea Lots
    Sea Lots
    Sea Lots is an area within Trinidad and Tobago that is located in southeastern Port of Spain. It is called Sea lots because the Government at the time parcelled "lots" of land near the sea. This area is considered part of a group of localities that together are known as Laventille...

  • Senate of Trinidad and Tobago
    Senate of Trinidad and Tobago
    The Senate of Trinidad and Tobago is the appointed Upper House of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. The Senate sits in the Red House in Port of Spain...

  • Shaka Hislop
    Shaka Hislop
    Neil Shaka Hislop, CM is a former professional football goalkeeper. The majority of his career was spent in the top division in England where he was a part of the Newcastle United team which finished second in the Premier League for two successive seasons under Kevin Keegan's first tenure...

  • Shani Mootoo
    Shani Mootoo
    Shani Mootoo is a writer who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 to Trinidadian parents. She was raised in Trinidad, where she initially began to explore the artistic and literary world. She began writing and creating visual that drew on her ideas regarding sexual relations between members of the...

  • Sharlene Flores
    Sharlene Flores
    Sharlene Flores, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a singer of parang music. Flores de San José originates in St. Joseph. Sharlene Flores, the lead singer, has a style and sound of her own, and this coupled with the special musical abilities of Wayne Flores, makes the cutting edge sound of the band....

  • Shelly Dass
    Shelly Dass
    Shelly Dass-Clarke was a television news presenter in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago through May 2010. She was anchor of the nightly newscast on Cable News Channel 3.-Childhood and early career:...

  • Shiva Naipaul
    Shiva Naipaul
    Shiva Naipaul , born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist.Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul...

  • Shurland David
    Shurland David
    Shurland David is a retired football defender from Trinidad and Tobago.-International career:He got 44 caps for the national team between 1998 and 2001....

  • Shurwayne Winchester
    Shurwayne Winchester
    Shurwayne Winchester is a soca musician from Trinidad and Tobago, who has twice won the Road March title.-Biography:He was born and raised on Tobago. At the age of 12, he entered the competition arena, consistently making yearly contributions that impressed and propelled him to advanced stages...

  • Sibon nebulata
    Sibon nebulata
    The Clouded Snake is a small, slender snake which is found in Central America, northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago....

  • Silvio Spann
    Silvio Spann
    Silvio Spann is a Trinidad and Tobagan footballer who is currently playing for W Connection.Spann is a midfielder, known for his hard work and stamina as well as his ability to shoot from long distance...

  • Simbhoonath Capildeo
    Simbhoonath Capildeo
    Simbhoonath Capildeo was a Trinidad and Tobago prominent Hindu politician and lawyer, born in Chaguanas. He was the elder brother of Rudranath Capildeo and uncle of Sir Vidia Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul...

  • Siparia Regional Corporation
    Siparia Regional Corporation
    Siparia Regional Corporation is the Regional Corporation which handles local government functions in a 510.48 km² are of southwest Trinidad. It is one of 15 local government bodies in Trinidad and Tobago. The Siparia Regional Corporation is headquartered in Siparia...

  • Siparia
    Siparia
    Siparia is a town in southern Trinidad, in Trinidad and Tobago, south of Penal and south-east of Fyzabad. Also called "The Sand City," it was originally a non-Mission Amerindian settlement. Siparia grew to be the administrative centre for County Saint Patrick, and later the Siparia Regional...

  • Siphlophis cervinus
    Siphlophis cervinus
    The Checkerbelly is a rare snake found in Amazonian South America and Trinidad and Tobago.-References:...

  • Sir Lancelot (singer)
    Sir Lancelot (singer)
    Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard was a calypso singer and actor who used the name Sir Lancelot. Sir Lancelot played a major role in popularizing calypso in North America, and Harry Belafonte has acknowledged him as an inspiration and major influence.-Early life:Pinard was born in Cumuto, Trinidad...

  • Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway
    Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway
    The Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway is the major north-south highway in Trinidad and Tobago. It connects Chaguanas with San Fernando. It meets the Uriah Butler Highway at Chaguanas. The highway was named for Solomon Hochoy, the first Caribbean-born Governor of Trinidad and Tobago and the first...

  • Sir William Robinson
    Sir William Robinson
    Sir William Robinson was a British colonial governor who was the last Governor of Trinidad and the first Governor of the merged colony of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also the 11th Governor of Hong Kong....

  • Sixth Form Government Secondary School
    Sixth Form Government Secondary School
    Sixth Form Government is a Government secondary school offering Advanced Level Studies, situated on Ethel Street, Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. At night the same buildings function as the Polytechnic Institute, a night school for Adult Education....

  • Snowy Egret
    Snowy Egret
    The Snowy Egret is a small white heron. It is the American counterpart to the very similar Old World Little Egret, which has established a foothold in the Bahamas....

  • Soca music
    Soca music
    Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....

  • Soca Warriors Supporters Club
    Soca Warriors Supporters Club
    The Soca Warriors Supporters Club, also called The Warrior Nation, is a non-profit Trinidadian football fan organization. It is independent of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation and run entirely by volunteers. It was inaugurated on December 12, 2005.The Club strives to be a link between...

  • Social unrest in Trinidad and Tobago
    Social unrest in Trinidad and Tobago
    Social unrest has shaped the development of Trinidad and Tobago since the middle of the 19th century. Attempts by the British colonial government to crack down on the celebration of Carnival sparked the Canboulay Riots in 1881 and 1884. Attempts to control the celebration of Hosay by the Indian...

  • Solomon Hochoy
    Solomon Hochoy
    Sir Solomon Hochoy TC, GCMG, GCVO, OBE was the last British Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, the first non-white Governor and the first Governor General after independence and the first British viceroy of non-European descent.Of Hakka Chinese background, his family emigrated to Trinidad when he...

  • Sonny Ramadhin
    Sonny Ramadhin
    Sonny Ramadhin was a West Indian cricketer, and a dominant bowler of the 1950s. He was the first West Indian cricketers of Indian origin, and was one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1951.- Biography and career :...

  • Soucouyant
    Soucouyant
    The soucouyant or soucriant in Dominica, Trinidadian and Guadeloupean folklore , is a kind of witch vampire.-Legend:...

  • South America
    South America
    South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

  • South Starworld Strikers
    South Starworld Strikers
    The South Starworld Strikers are a professional football team, which plays in Trinidad and Tobago's Professional Football League. The team currently plays in Ato Boldon Stadium, in Couva, Trinidad.-History:...

  • Spanish missions in Trinidad
    Spanish missions in Trinidad
    Spanish Missions in Trinidad were established as part of the Spanish colonisation of its new possessions. In 1687 the Catholic Catalan Capuchin friars were given responsibility for religious conversions of the indigenous Amerindian residents of Trinidad and the Guianas. In 1713 the missions were...

  • Spectral Bat
    Spectral Bat
    The Spectral Bat is a large, carnivorous leaf-nosed bat. Some alternate names for this species are the False Vampire Bat, Linnaeus's False Vampire Bat and the Spectral Vampire Bat...

  • Speyside, Trinidad and Tobago
    Speyside, Trinidad and Tobago
    Speyside is a town in northern Tobago within Saint John Parish. It lies on the leeward coast, across from the island of Little Tobago , 26 km northeast of Scarborough, overlooking Tyrrel's Bay...

  • Spilotes pullatus
    Spilotes pullatus
    Spilotes pullatus, also known as the Tigre, is a large snake found in southern Central America, northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It is a non-venomous colubrid that tends to inhabit forested areas. It is arboreal in habit and feeds on a wide variety of prey, including small mammals,...

  • Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day
    Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day
    Spiritual/Shouter Baptist Liberation Day is an annual public holiday celebrated in the Trinidad and Tobago on March 30. The holiday commemorates the repeal on March 30, 1951, of the 1917 Shouter Prohibition Ordinance that prohibited the activities of the Shouter or Spiritual Baptist faith.Trinidad...

  • Spiritual Baptist
    Spiritual Baptist
    The Spiritual Baptists faith is an Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion which combines elements of traditional West African religions with Christianity. The Spiritual Baptist faith originated in St. Vincent....

  • St. Joseph's Convent, St. Joseph
    St. Joseph's Convent, St. Joseph
    St Joseph's Convent, St Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago, founded in 1870 was for many years a privately run school, providing religious education for children of both primary and secondary ages. Few records of the early years of the boarders lived in the garret of the three-storey wooden building.The...

  • Steelpan
    Steelpan
    Steelpans is a musical instrument originating from The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Stephen Ames
    Stephen Ames
    Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada....

  • Stephen Hart (soccer)
    Stephen Hart (soccer)
    Stephen Hart is a former Trinidadian football player, currently in his second spell as head coach of Canada's men's national soccer team...

  • Stern John
    Stern John
    Stern John is a Trinidadian football player currently playing for North East Stars in Trinidad. He played for a number of high profile English football clubs that included Nottingham Forest, Birmingham City and Coventry City.-Early Career in US:John moved to the United States to attend Mercer...

  • Stokely Carmichael
    Stokely Carmichael
    Kwame Ture , also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party...

  • Stokely Mason
    Stokely Mason
    Stokely Mason is a football midfielder from Trinidad and Tobago, he currently plays for United Petrotrin.-Career:Mason has spent his entire career in Trinidad and Tobago, except brief spells in Costa Rica and England....

  • Striated Heron
    Striated Heron
    The Striated Heron, Butorides striata, also known as Mangrove Heron, Little Heron or Green-backed Heron, is a small heron. Striated Herons are mostly non-migratory and noted for some interesting behavioral traits. Their breeding habitat is small wetlands in the Old World tropics from west Africa to...

  • Sundar Popo
    Sundar Popo
    Sundar Popo was a Chutney musician from Trinidad and Tobago. He popularised Chutney music, beginning with his 1970 hit Nana and Nani.-Biography:...

  • Superblue
    Superblue
    Austin Lyons , better known as Superblue, Super Blue, and Blueboy, is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, soca musician, ICON and lyricist.-Person:...

  • Suruj Ragoonath
    Suruj Ragoonath
    Suruj Ragoonath is a West Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman. He played in two Tests in March 1999, with a top score of 9 against Australia. Ragoonath is an extremely aggressive opening batsman. Some say this is because of his background as a police officer, and his reputation for...

  • Sydney Smith (cricketer)
    Sydney Smith (cricketer)
    Sydney Gordon Smith, born at San Fernando, Trinidad on 15 January 1881, and died at Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 October 1963, was a cricketer who had three distinct careers, playing for Trinidad in the West Indies, for Northamptonshire in England and for Auckland in New Zealand...

  • Synergy TV
    Synergy TV
    Synergy Television ' is the first music oriented channel, serving Trinidad and Tobago. The channel was founded by Peter C. Lewis former Xtatik band member and host of the highly popular Pete's Picks which also airs on Synergy TV. The channel airs music videos of local and regional artists...


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  • Tabaquite
    Tabaquite
    Tabaquite is a town in central Trinidad, north of Rio Claro and west of Navet.- Overview :Tabaquite is a primarily rural area and suffers from infrastructural neglect...

  • Tamil diaspora
    Tamil diaspora
    The Tamil diaspora is a demographic group of Tamil people of Indian or Sri Lankan origin who have settled in other parts of the world. Significant Tamil diaspora populations can be found in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Middle East, Réunion, South Africa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Fiji, Guyana,...

  • Tantilla melanocephala
    Tantilla melanocephala
    Tantilla melanocephala, the Black-headed Snake is a small snake found in South America and Trinidad and Tobago.-References:...

  • Tatyana Ali
    Tatyana Ali
    Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and R&B singer, best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...

  • Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago
    Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago
    Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Limited is the largest telephone and Internet service provider in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Television in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tobago Channel 5
    Tobago Channel 5
    Tobago Channel 5 is a community television station originating from the island of Tobago in Trinidad and Tobago. The station primarily broadcasts programming on Tobago, Tobago's news, Tobago's people, Tobago's culture and Tobago's perspective on national issues....

  • Tobago Express
    Tobago Express
    Tobago Express was a scheduled passenger airline based in Trinidad and Tobago. It operated as a sister airline of Caribbean Airlines. Caribbean Airlines is now the main airline which operates the essential "air-bridge" between the Crown Point International Airport located in Tobago and Piarco...

  • Tobago House of Assembly
    Tobago House of Assembly
    The Tobago House of Assembly is the local government body responsible for the island of Tobago within the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The THA was established in 1980 to rectify some of the disparities in the relationship between the two islands, though a prior body using the same...

  • Tobago Organization of the People
    Tobago Organization of the People
    The Tobago Organisation of the People is an autonomist political party in Tobago formed in 2008, a members of the People's Partnership coalition. Its current leader is Ashworth Jack...

  • Tobago
    Tobago
    Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the southern Caribbean, northeast of the island of Trinidad and southeast of Grenada. The island lies outside the hurricane belt...

  • Tobagonian Creole
  • Toco
    Toco
    Toco is the most northeasterly village on the island of Trinidad in the County of Saint David at the point where the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Tobago lies only some 35 kilometers to the northeast which renders Toco the closest point in Trinidad to the sister island. The name Toco...

  • Tony Carpenter
    Tony Carpenter
    Tony Carpenter is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Oscar James.Happy go lucky Tony tried to carve himself a successful business and steady home for his family, but nothing he did was ever good enough for his nagging wife.-Storylines:Trinidadian born Tony, married...

  • Tony Gray
    Tony Gray
    Anthony Hollis Gray is a former West Indian cricketer who played five Tests and 25 One Day Internationals.Gray was a tall fast bowler who hails from Trinidad...

  • Tony Springer
    Tony Springer
    Tony "Wild T" Springer is a Canadian blues-rock guitarist.Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Springer played with a number of reggae and calypso bands as a teenager. He later moved to Canada, settling in Toronto and playing local clubs in a Jimi Hendrix tribute band...

  • Tony Warner
    Tony Warner
    Anthony Randolph "Tony" Warner is a Trinidad and Tobago international football goalkeeper who currently plays for the Wellington Phoenix.-Footballing career:...

  • Topic outline of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Transport and Industrial Workers Union
    Transport and Industrial Workers Union
    The Transport and Industrial Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.-External links:*...

  • Transport in Trinidad and Tobago
    Transport in Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean country which relies heavily on industrialisation and tourism, has various transport systems. Trinidad is the larger island, with a business-oriented economy and the seat of the country's government and Piarco International Airport, the country's major airport...

  • Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald
    Sir Trevor McDonald OBE is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist. He had a long career as a news presenter with ITN...

  • Tricolored Heron
    Tricolored Heron
    The Tricolored Heron formerly known in North America as the Louisiana Heron, is a small heron. It is a resident breeder from the Gulf states of the USA and northern Mexico south through Central America and the Caribbean to central Brazil and Peru...

  • Trincity
    Trincity
    Trincity is a planned community in northern Trinidad. It is located along the East-West Corridor south of Tunapuna and north of Piarco.Trincity was developed by Home Construction Limited, now a subsidiary of CL Financial, one of the largest conglomerates in the Caribbean...

  • Trini
  • Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society
    Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society
    The Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society, Inc. is the national amateur radio organization in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a member society of the International Amateur Radio Union .- History :...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1948 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1948 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. The Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee sent five athletes and four officials to represent the nation in three sports...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.- Bronze:* Rodney Wilkes — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight* Lennox Kilgour — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight-References:**...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1956 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1956 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.- Cycling :Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint* Hylton Mitchell — 13th placeMen's 1.000m Time Trial* Hylton Mitchell — 1:16.5...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. This marked the return of Trinidad and Tobago to the Olympic Games as a separate nation, after having competed as part of the British West Indies at the 1960 Summer Olympics.-Silver:* Wendell Mottley —...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1968 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1968 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.- Athletics :Men's 100 metres* Ronald Monsegue* Round 1 — 10.5 seconds Men's 200 metres* Edwin Roberts...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1972 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1972 Summer Olympics
    Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.Trinidad and Tobago was represented by twenty athletes and nine officials, competing in athletics, cycling, sailing, and swimming.- Athletics :...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1976 Summer Olympics
    Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. This is Trinidad and Tobago's only Olympic gold medal victory ever.-Gold:* Hasely Crawford — Athletics, Men's 100 metres-Athletics:...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1980 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1980 Summer Olympics
    Athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Christopher Brathwaite* Heat — 10.44* Quarterfinals — 10.37* Semifinals — 10.54...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1984 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1984 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.- Athletics :Men's 100 metres* Hasely CrawfordMen's 400 metres* Michael Paul* Heat — 46.18* Quarterfinals — 45.84...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1988 Summer Olympics
    Six athletes from Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Three track and field athletes, two cyclists and one swimmer represented the Caribbean nation.-Athletics:* Patrick Delice* Ian Morris* Angela Williams...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1992 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.Six track and field athletes and two cyclists represented Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 1996 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Bronze:*Ato Boldon — Athletics, Men's 100 metres*Ato Boldon — Athletics, Men's 200 metres-Athletics :Men's 100 metres* Ato Boldon...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 2000 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.- Silver:*Ato Boldon — Athletics, Men's 100 metres- Bronze:*Ato Boldon — Athletics, Men's 200 metres-Men's competition:Men's 100 m* Ato Boldon...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 2004 Summer Olympics
    Trinidad and Tobago competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Trinidad and Tobago sent 19 athletes to compete in Athens, most of them in swimming and athletics.-Medalists:-Athletics:...

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
    Trinidad & Tobago participated with a team of 71 athletes to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, winning three bronze medals and taking part in ten disciplines including athletics, badminton, gymnastics, hockey, shooting, table tennis and triathlon....

  • Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics
  • Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
    Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
    The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual event celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is the most significant event on the islands' cultural and tourism calendar, with numerous cultural events running in the lead up to the street parade on...

  • Trinidad and Tobago cricket team
    Trinidad and Tobago cricket team
    The Trinidad and Tobago cricket team is the representative cricket team of the country of Trinidad and Tobago.The team takes part in inter-regional cricket competitions in the Caribbean, such as the Regional Four Day Competition and the WICB Cup, with the best players selected for the West Indies...

  • Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
    Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
    The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force is the military organisation responsible for the defence of the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Trinidad and Tobago dollar
    Trinidad and Tobago dollar
    The dollar is the currency of Trinidad and Tobago. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively TT$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is subdivided into 100 cents...

  • Trinidad and Tobago dry forests
    Trinidad and Tobago dry forests
    Trinidad and Tobago dry forests are tropical dry forests located primarily in western and southern parts of the island of Trinidad, in southern parts of the island of Tobago and on smaller offshore islands including Chacachacare, Monos, Huevos, Gaspar Grande, Little Tobago and Saint Giles...

  • Trinidad and Tobago Express
    Trinidad and Tobago Express
    The Trinidad and Tobago Express is one of three daily newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago. The Express is published by the Caribbean Communications Network and is headquartered on Independence Square in Port of Spain. The newspaper commenced operations on June 6, 1967...

  • Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation
    Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation
    The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation is the governing body of football in Trinidad and Tobago. It is based in Port of Spain, Trinidad. It is a member of FIFA and is responsible for governing amateur and professional football and including the men's and women's national teams...

  • Trinidad and Tobago national football team
    Trinidad and Tobago national football team
    The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed The Soca Warriors, is the national team of Trinidad and Tobago and is run by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation. It reached the first round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals...

  • Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
  • Trinidad and Tobago Regiment
    Trinidad and Tobago Regiment
    The Trinidad and Tobago Regiment is the main ground force element of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force. It has approximately 2,800 men and women organized into a Regiment Headquarters and four battalions. There is also a Volunteer Defence Force that has been renamed the Defence Force Reserves...

  • Trinidad and Tobago Television
    Trinidad and Tobago Television
    The Trinidad and Tobago Television Company ', was a national television broadcaster in Trinidad and Tobago. The company operated two stations, ttt on channels 2 and 13 and Alternative Television on channels 9 and 14...

  • Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

  • Trinidad Government Railway
    Trinidad Government Railway
    The Trinidad Government Railway existed between 1876 and 28 December 1968. Originally built to connect Port of Spain with Arima, the railway was extended to Couva in 1880, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago in 1882, Cunapo in 1897, Tabaquite in 1898, Siparia in 1913 and Rio Claro in...

  • Trinidad Guardian
    Trinidad Guardian
    The T&T Guardian is the oldest daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1917, the Guardian is published by the Trinidad Publishing Company. The newspaper was published as a broadsheet since inception but changed to tabloid format, known as the "G-sized Guardian", in November 2002...

  • Trinidad Rapid Railway
    Trinidad Rapid Railway
    The Trinidad Rapid Railway was a proposed passenger railway system in Trinidad and Tobago.-Project:On April 11 2008 the TriniTrain consortium of Alstom Transport SA, Alstom T&T Ltd, Bouygues Construction and RATP Développement announced it had been selected by the government to plan and build two...

  • Trinidad Theatre Workshop
    Trinidad Theatre Workshop
    Trinidad Theatre Workshop was founded by 1992 Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott in 1959. In its inaugural season, the Workshop presented The Blacks by Jean Genet, Eric Roach's Belle Fanto, and The Road by Wole Soyinka...

  • Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

  • Trinidadian Creole language
  • Trinidadian English
    Trinidadian English
    Trinidadian English or Trinidad and Tobago Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago. TE co-exists with both non-standard varieties of English as well as other dialects, namely Trinidadian Creole in Trinidad and Tobagonian Creole in Tobago...

  • Trinity Cross
    Trinity Cross
    The Trinity Cross was the highest of the National Awards of Trinidad and Tobago, between the years 1969– 2008. It was awarded for: distinguished and outstanding service to Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Trinity Hills
    Trinity Hills
    The Trinity Hills are a range of hills in southeastern Trinidad. According to legend, it is after these hills that Christopher Columbus named the island of Trinidad. Columbus had promised to name the next land he discovered after the Holy Trinity. The lookout, Alonzo Perez reported that he saw...

  • Tripanurgos compressus
    Tripanurgos compressus
    Tripanurgos compressus, the Mapepire De Fe is a snake found in tropical South America and Trinidad and Tobago. It feeds on small lizards and probably on frogs and nestling birds.-References:...

  • Tubal Uriah Butler
    Tubal Uriah Butler
    Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler , was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago...

  • Tunapuna
    Tunapuna
    -Town:It is located between St. Augustine, Tacarigua and Trincity. Tunapuna is the largest town between San Juan and Arima. It is an important market and commercial centre, and is the seat of the Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation...

  • Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation
    Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation
    Tunapuna-Piarco Regional Corporation is a local government body in Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of nine Regional Corporations in Trinidad which replaced the system of Counties as local government bodies in 1992. It is the largest by population of all the Regional Corporations. It contains the...

  • Typhlops brongersmianus
    Typhlops brongersmianus
    Typhlops brongersmianus is a harmless blind snake species found in South America. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...

  • Typhlops trinitatus
    Typhlops trinitatus
    Typhlops trinitatus is a harmless blind snake species found in Trinidad and Tobago. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:...

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  • United Islamic Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago
    United Islamic Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago
    The United Islamic Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago is an umbrella organization designed to promote and facilitate harmony and co-operation among the smaller Muslim associations in Trinidad and Tobago. These organizations had applied for membership in the Muslim Co-ordinating Council of...

  • United Labour Front
    United Labour Front
    The United Labour Front was a political party in Trinidad and Tobago and the main opposition party between 1976 and 1986.-History:The party was established in 1975 by union leaders in an attempt to unify the mainly black workers in the oil industry with the mainly Indian workers in the sugar...

  • United National Congress
    United National Congress
    The United National Congress is one of the two major political parties in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and one of the parties in the current ruling coalition. It was founded by Basdeo Panday, a lawyer and former trade unionist. The UNC was formed as the result of a split in the ruling...

  • United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

    , member state since 1962
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    United Petrotrin
    United Petrotrin is a football club from Trinidad and Tobago, which currently plays in the Professional Football League of Trinidad.-History:...

  • University of the West Indies
    University of the West Indies
    The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...

  • University of Trinidad and Tobago
    University of Trinidad and Tobago
    The University of Trinidad and Tobago, also known as UTT, is a state owned university in Trinidad and Tobago established in 2004. Its main campus, currently under construction, will be located at Wallerfield in Trinidad...

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    Uriah Butler Highway
    The Uriah Butler Highway, sometimes referred to as UBH, is one of the major north-south highways in Trinidad and Tobago, named after Tubal Uriah Butler. It runs from Champs Fleur to Chaguanas where it meets the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway. It crosses the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway at Valsayn...


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  • V. S. Naipaul
    V. S. Naipaul
    Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul, TC is a Nobel prize-winning Indo-Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism...

  • Vahni Capildeo
    Vahni Capildeo
    Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer, and a member of the extended Capildeo family which has produced notable Trinidadian politicians and writers ....

  • Valentina Medina
    Valentina Medina
    Valentina Medina . Died 24 April 2011 was the fifth Carib Queen since the introduction in 1875.On March 26 2000, Valentina Medina, of Mausica Lands, Arima, Trinidad aka Iere was named Carib Queen for life, at an election at the Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre in Arima...

  • Vampire bat
    Vampire bat
    Vampire bats are bats whose food source is blood, a dietary trait called hematophagy. There are three bat species that feed solely on blood: the Common Vampire Bat , the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat , and the White-winged Vampire Bat .All three species are native to the Americas, ranging from Mexico to...

  • Vehicle registration plates of Trinidad and Tobago
    Vehicle registration plates of Trinidad and Tobago
    Vehicle registration plates in Trinidad and Tobago are based on the type of vehicle and letter of the alphabet.-Prefix:Each registration number begins with a letter designating type of vehicle....

  • Vic Stollmeyer
    Vic Stollmeyer
    Victor Humphrey Stollmeyer was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1939.Vic Stollmeyer was the older brother of West Indian captain Jeff Stollmeyer....

  • Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago
    Victoria, Trinidad and Tobago
    Victoria is a county in Trinidad and Tobago. It covers 813 km2 and is divided into five wards. It is bordered on the north by the county of Caroni, the south by the county of Saint Patrick, and in the east by the counties of Mayaro and Nariva. To the west it borders the Gulf of Paria. The...


W

  • W Connection
    W Connection
    Vibe CT 105 Williams Connection is a football club from Trinidad and Tobago, which currently plays in the Pro League. The club plays its home games in Manny Ramjohn Stadium...

  • Warszewiczia coccinea
    Warszewiczia coccinea
    Warszewiczia coccinea is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is the national flower of Trinidad and Tobago because it blooms on 31 August, which coincides with the day that Trinidad and Tobago became independent from Great Britain...

  • WEFM (Trinidad and Tobago)
    WEFM (Trinidad and Tobago)
    WEFM is an FM radio station broadcasting on 96.1 MHz in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. The commercial radio station is privately owned by Trinidad and Tobago Radio Network Limited and began broadcasting on December 16, 1993....

  • Wendell Mottley
    Wendell Mottley
    Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...

  • Wendy Fitzwilliam
    Wendy Fitzwilliam
    Wendy Fitzwilliam is a former Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe, the third woman of African heritage to capture the Miss Universe crown and the second Miss Universe in history from Trinidad and Tobago.-Early life:...

  • Wes Hall
    Wes Hall
    Wesley Winfield Hall is a Barbadian former cricketer and politician. A tall, strong and powerfully built man, Hall was a genuine fast bowler and despite his very long run up, he was renowned for his ability to bowl long spells. Hall played 48 Test matches for the West Indies from 1958 to 1969...

  • West Indian Manatee
    West Indian Manatee
    The West Indian Manatee is a manatee, and the largest surviving member of the aquatic mammal order Sirenia . The West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus, is a species distinct from the Amazonian Manatee, T. inunguis, and the West African Manatee, T. senegalensis...

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
    White-tailed Tropicbird
    The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans...

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  • Wilfred Ferguson
    Wilfred Ferguson
    Wilfred Ferguson was a West Indian cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1947-48 to 1953-54....

  • Willie Rodriguez
    Willie Rodriguez
    William Vicente Rodriguez is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1962 to 1968....

  • Willies Ice Cream
  • Wilmoth Houdini
    Wilmoth Houdini
    Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks , best known as Wilmoth Houdini,was a prominent calypsonian.-Life:...

  • Wilton St Hill
    Wilton St Hill
    Wilton H. St Hill was a West Indian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test match during their inaugural Test tour of England. A right-handed batman who played in a variety of batting positions, he represented Trinidad in first-class cricket between 1912 and 1930 and played in three Test...

  • WIN TV (Trinidad and Tobago)
    WIN TV (Trinidad and Tobago)
    World Indian Network Television ' is a television station in Trinidad and Tobago. The station was launched on May 1, 2007 on channels 37 and 39 on the UHF band and Channel 12 on the Flow Trinidad cable service. It is one of two local television stations dedicated to the East Indian market...

  • Winifred Atwell
    Winifred Atwell
    Una Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or April 1910 or 1914There is some uncertainty over her date and year of birth. Many sources suggest 27 February 1914, but there is a strong suggestion that her birthday was 27 April. Most sources give her year of birth as...

  • Winston Dookeran
    Winston Dookeran
    Winston Dookeran is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and economist. He currently serves as Political Leader of the Congress of the People. His term ends on July 3, 2011 when internal elections will be held to select a political leader. At a press conference on May 28, 2011, Mr. Dookeran...

  • The Wizzard
    The Wizzard
    The Wizzard is a popular calypso musician from Dominica. He began performed in church as a young man, then competed in the carnival calypso tent in 1988, placing second. In 1989, he won the competition with "Feed My Brother" and "Young an' Restless"; that year, he also placed second at the...

  • Workers and Farmers Party
    Workers and Farmers Party
    The Workers and Farmers Party was a Marxist political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party was organised by former Democratic Labour Party leader Stephen Maharaj, C.L.R. James, George Weekes and included the then unknown Basdeo Panday among its slate of candidates.The party contested the 1966...

  • Wrap roti
    Wrap roti
    Wrap roti, often referred to as a roti, is popular in the Caribbean consisting of a curry stew folded tightly within a Dhalpuri roti. The stew within a wrap roti generally contains potatoes and a meat such as chicken, goat, beef, conch or shrimp...

  • Wrightson Road
    Wrightson Road
    Wrightson Road links downtown Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago with the Audrey Jeffers Highway. It runs from the area of the Eric Williams Financial Complex to meet the Audrey Jeffers Highway near the Hasely Crawford Stadium...


See also

  • Commonwealth of Nations
    Commonwealth of Nations
    The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...

  • List of Caribbean-related topics
  • List of international rankings
  • Lists of country-related topics
  • Topic outline of geography
  • Topic outline of North America
  • Topic outline of South America
  • Topic outline of Trinidad and Tobago
  • United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...



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