The following is an outline of topics related to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago
  Public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago
  The Government of Trinidad and Tobago officially recognizes a number of holidays and celebrations from most represented groups. The following holidays are those that are officially observed in Trinidad and Tobago:-Official Holidays:-Carnival Dates:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Trini
• 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 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
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Trinicompass -www.trinicompass.com

Buildings and structures in 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
  
  

Airports in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• List of airports in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  

Hospitals in 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...
  
  
• San Fernando General Hospital
  San Fernando General Hospital
  San Fernando General Hospital is located in the City of San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. It is considered as the main trauma unit for the Southern region of the Island of Trinidad....
  
  
• Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex
• Sangre Grande General Hospital
• Mt.hope General Hospital

Skyscrapers in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Port-Of-Spain International Waterfront
• 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....
  
  
• Twin towers of Central Bank

Football venues in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Culture of Trinidad and Tobago

• Burrokeet
  Burrokeet
  The Burrokeet is a character of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival in the Caribbean Islands....
  
  
• 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 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Coskel University
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Soucouyant
  Soucouyant
  The soucouyant or soucriant in Dominica, Trinidadian and Guadeloupean folklore , is a kind of witch vampire.-Legend:...
  
  
• Trini
• 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 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...
  
  
• Crab and Dumplin

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago media

See also: #Sport in Trinidad and Tobago

Music of Trinidad and Tobago

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

See also: #Trinidadian musicians

Calypso

• 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"...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Justin "Hero" Cassell
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• List of calypso-like genres
• 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...
  
  
• Road March
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Soca

Calypsonians

• List of calypso musicians
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner from Port-of-Spain in Trinidad was a popular exponent of the Caribbean musical form Calypso.-Person:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lord Cam
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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]* *...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Wilmoth Houdini
  Wilmoth Houdini
  Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks , best known as Wilmoth Houdini,was a prominent calypsonian.-Life:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion was a calypsonian...
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Superblue
  Superblue
  Austin Lyons , better known as Superblue, Super Blue, and Blueboy, is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, soca musician, ICON and lyricist.-Person:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Chutney music

• 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:...
  
  

Chutney musicians

• List of chutney musicians
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Soca

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Road March

Soca musicians

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Denise Belfon
  Denise Belfon
  Denise "Saucy Wow" Belfon is a Soca, Contemporary R&B, and Gospel singer, songwriter, and dancer.-Early years:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kes
  Kes (band)
  KES is a Trinidadian soca band formed in 2005 by brothers, Kees , Hans and Jon Dieffenthaller and close friend Riad Boochoon . All of them are alumni of Presentation College, San Fernando in Trinidad & Tobago, as is well-known soca artiste Machel Montano...
  
  
• Ken Marlon Charles (KMC)
  Ken Marlon Charles (KMC)
  Ken Marlon Charles a.k.a KMC is a soca artist from Trinidad. Famous for hits like "Soul on Fire", "Soca Bashment" and "Bashment to Carnival" KMC is signed to the US-based record label Sequence Records. Considered to be one of Trinidad's top soca artists, KMC has over sixteen years experience in...
  
  
• Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner from Port-of-Spain in Trinidad was a popular exponent of the Caribbean musical form Calypso.-Person:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion was a calypsonian...
  
  
• Machel Montano
  Machel Montano
  Machel Montano is a soca singer, record producer and songwriter based in the Trinidad and Tobago....
  
  
• Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan is a soca / dancehall musician. He is also known by his former stage name Maga Dan....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Superblue
  Superblue
  Austin Lyons , better known as Superblue, Super Blue, and Blueboy, is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, soca musician, ICON and lyricist.-Person:...
  
  

Economy of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Trade unions of Trinidad and Tobago

Companies of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• S.M. Jaleel and Company
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Airlines of Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Television stations in Trinidad and Tobago

Schools in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of schools in Trinidad and Tobago
• Aranguez Senior Comprehensive
• Arima Government Secondary
• Carapichaima Senior Secondary
• Couva Government Secondary
• Guayaguayare High School
• Hill View College
• Holy Faith Convent Penal
• 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...
  
  
• North Eastern College
  North Eastern College
  North Eastern College is a government-run secondary school in Sangre Grande, northeastern Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. It is called a college because it is a seven year school....
  
  
• Palo Seco Government Secondary
• Point Fortin Senior Secondary
• Mayaro Composite School
• Morvant Laventille Secondary
• Toco Composite School
• St Stephen's College
• Pleansantville Secondary

Universities and colleges in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of universities in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• University of the Southern Caribbean
  University of the Southern Caribbean
  The University of the Southern Caribbean, also known as USC, is a private university operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The campus is located on of land in the Maracas Valley of the twin island of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago....
  
  

Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Wildlife of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of birds of Trinidad and Tobago

Fauna of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:*...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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
• Roseate Spoonbill
  Roseate Spoonbill
  The Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Siphlophis cervinus
  Siphlophis cervinus
  The Checkerbelly is a rare snake found in Amazonian South America and Trinidad and Tobago.-References:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Tantilla melanocephala
  Tantilla melanocephala
  Tantilla melanocephala, the Black-headed Snake is a small snake found in South America and Trinidad and Tobago.-References:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  The Yellow-crowned Night Heron , also called the American Night Heron or squawk, is a fairly small heron, similar in appearance to the Black-crowned Night Heron...
  
  

Geography of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• Aripo
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 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...
  
  
• 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 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 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Chaguanas

• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Islands of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Mountains of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Port of Spain

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Rivers of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of rivers in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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....
  
  
• Caura River
• 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...
  
  

San Fernando

• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Towns in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of cities and towns in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Chaguaramas
• 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...
  
  
• Claxton Bay
  Claxton Bay
  Claxton Bay is a community in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in west-central Trinidad, and is administered by the Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation.-References:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Morvant
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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
  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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Chaguanas

See also: #Port of Spain

See also: #San Fernando

Trinidad and Tobago geography stubs

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ,...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Caura River
• 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...
  
  
• Chaguaramas
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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
  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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 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 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Template:Trinidad-geo-stub
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Uriah Butler Highway
  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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Government of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Governors of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago
• List of Governors of Trinidad
• List of Governors of Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore
• 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....
  
  

Governors-General of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of Governors-General of Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago

• List of Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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."...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

History of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• List of Governors of Tobago
• List of Governors of Trinidad
• List of Governors of Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Riots and civil unrest in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Languages of Trinidad and Tobago

• Tobagonian Creole
• Trinidadian Creole
• 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...
  
  
• Caribbean Hindustani
  Caribbean Hindustani
  Caribbean Hindustani is a dialect of Bhojpuri spoken in Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. These three countries put an adjective before the name of the language, so that the local language variant is known for instance as "Sarnami Hindoestani" in Suriname...
  
  
• Trinidadian French Creole
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago media

• 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...
  
  
• 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 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Communications in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• .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....
  
   for Trinidad and Tobago

Newspapers published in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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 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 Newsday

Trinidad and Tobago television personalities

• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Anne-Marie Ganese
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Samantha John
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Magella Moreau
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Television stations in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of television stations in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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...
  
  
• CNMG-TV
• Cable News Channel 3
• Gayelle TV
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Template:Trinidad-Tobago-TV
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago blogs

• The Manicou Report
• Now Is Wow
• Keifel Agostini
• 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...
  
  
• Airguns Trinidad and Tobago
• Modess Goddess
• Tilla Willah
• MEP Publishers

Trinidad and Tobago people

• 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...
  
  
• Jeremy Charles Sheldon Taylor
• 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...
  
  
• Floella Benjamin
  Floella Benjamin
  Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin OBE DL is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and politician...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Dole Chadee
  Dole Chadee
  Dole Chadee was a drug lord and convicted murderer. His base of operation was in Piparo, Trinidad and Tobago....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Lisa Dookie
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Geoffrey Holder
  Geoffrey Holder
  Geoffrey Richard Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hubert Julian
  Hubert Julian
  Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was a Trinidad-born African American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed "The Black Eagle".-Biography:...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• Giselle Laronde
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Peter Minshall
  Peter Minshall
  Peter Minshall is a Trinidadian Carnival artist .-Early life and career beginnings:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Shaun Riaz
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Celia Sankar
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lynn Taitt
  Lynn Taitt
  Lynn Taitt was a reggae guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, closely associated with Jamaican rocksteady music.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Austin "Jack" Warner

See also: #Governors of Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Governors-General of Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago

Afro-Trinidadians

• 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...
  
  
• André Alexis
  André Alexis
  André Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  
• Floella Benjamin
  Floella Benjamin
  Floella Karen Yunies Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin OBE DL is a British actress, author, television presenter, businesswoman and politician...
  
  
• Foxy Brown
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Geoffrey Holder
  Geoffrey Holder
  Geoffrey Richard Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter, costume designer, singer and voice-over artist.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Hubert Julian
  Hubert Julian
  Hubert Fauntleroy Julian was a Trinidad-born African American aviation pioneer. He was nicknamed "The Black Eagle".-Biography:...
  
  
• K-os
  K-os
  Kevin Brereton , better known by his stage name k-os , is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Henry Sylvester-Williams
• Austin "Jack" Warner
• 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."...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Trinidadian Canadians

• Stephen Ames
  Stephen Ames
  Stephen Michael Ames is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Keshia Chanté
  Keshia Chanté
  Keshia Chanté is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, model, and actress...
  
  
• Grégory Charles
  Gregory Charles
  Gregory Charles is a Quebec performing artist of French Canadian and Trinidadian origin.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Atiba Hutchinson
  Atiba Hutchinson
  Atiba Hutchinson is a professional Canadian soccer player who plays for PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie.-Club career:...
  
  
• K-os
  K-os
  Kevin Brereton , better known by his stage name k-os , is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Aaliyah Lewis Princess to the secret throne (?)
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rick Titus

Ethnic groups in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  

See also: #Afro-Trinidadians

See also: #Indo-Trinidadians

Fictional Trinidadians

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Indo-Trinidadians

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

Trinidad and Tobago lawyers

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Henry Sylvester-Williams
• Gilbert Petersen
• Reginald Armour
• Keith Scotland
• Michael Quamina
• Frank Solomon
• Pamela Elder
• James Aboud
• Anand Ramlogan
  Anand Ramlogan
  Anand Ramlogan is a human rights attorney-at-law in Trinidad, and the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago.. He is married to His Trinidadian Wife Nalini Ramlogan and has two kids, he is a graduate of Queen Mary and Westfield College in the University of London and University of Westminster...
  
  
• Vernon De Lima

Trinidadian musicians

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner
  Lord Beginner from Port-of-Spain in Trinidad was a popular exponent of the Caribbean musical form Calypso.-Person:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Wilmoth Houdini
  Wilmoth Houdini
  Frederick Wilmoth Hendricks , best known as Wilmoth Houdini,was a prominent calypsonian.-Life:...
  
  
• Lord Invader
  Lord Invader
  Lord Invader was a prominent calypsonian with a very distinctive, gravelly voice....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion
  Roaring Lion was a calypsonian...
  
  
• Sam Manning
• Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan
  Maximus Dan is a soca / dancehall musician. He is also known by his former stage name Maga Dan....
  
  
• 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"...
  
  
• Fazal Mohammed
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Yohan Popwell
• 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"...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Superblue
  Superblue
  Austin Lyons , better known as Superblue, Super Blue, and Blueboy, is a Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, soca musician, ICON and lyricist.-Person:...
  
  
• André Tanker
  André Tanker
  André Michael Tanker was a Trinidad and Tobago musician and composer.-Person:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Mungal Patasar
• Nicki Minaj

Trinidad and Tobago people by occupation

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago artists

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago lawyers

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago politicians

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago religious leaders

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago scientists

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago sportspeople

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago television personalities

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago trade unionists

Trinidad and Tobago writers

• André Alexis
  André Alexis
  André Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Earl Lovelace
  Earl Lovelace
  For the peerage, see Earl of Lovelace.Earl Lovelace is a Trinidadian novelist, journalist, playwright, and short story writer....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Henry Sylvester-Williams
• 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....
  
  
• 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."...
  
  
• Jeremy Charles Sheldon Taylor

Trinidad and Tobago novelists

• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago photographers

• Harold Prieto
• Sherrif Khan
• Garth Murrell
• Bertrand de Peaza
• Robert Taylor
• Mark Lyndersay
• Noel Norton
• Barry Jameson
• Junia Browne (Deceased)
• Andre Alexander
• Stephen Broadbridge
• Richard Cook
• Mark Meredith

Trinidad and Tobago religious leaders

• Yasin Abu Bakr
  Yasin Abu Bakr
  Yasin Abu Bakr, born Lennox Philip is the leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago. The group has long-standing links with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah, the group staged an attempted coup d’état in 1990.Abu...
  
  
• Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler , was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Clive Dottin
• Archbishop Gilbert

Trinidad and Tobago scientists

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

Trinidad and Tobago athletes

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

Trinidad and Tobago boxers

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago cricketers

• 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...
  
  
• Imtiaz Ali
• 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...
  
  
• Nyron Asgarali
  Nyron Asgarali
  Nyron Sultan Asgarali was a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1957....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Ian Bishop
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Lennox Butler
  Lennox Butler
  Lennox Stephen Butler was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Charlie Davis (cricketer)
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Wilfred Ferguson
  Wilfred Ferguson
  Wilfred Ferguson was a West Indian cricketer who played in eight Tests from 1947-48 to 1953-54....
  
  
• Hammond Furlonge
  Hammond Furlonge
  Hammond Allen Furlonge was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests between 1955 and 1956....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Sammy Guillen
  Sammy Guillen
  Simpson Clairmonte Guillen is one of the few men to have played Test cricket for two countries...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Tyrell Johnson
• Prior Jones
  Prior Jones
  Prior Erskine Waverley Jones was a West Indian cricketer who played in nine Tests from 1947-48 to 1951-52....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Raphick Jumadeen
  Raphick Jumadeen
  Raphick Rasif Jumadeen is a former West Indian cricketer who played in twelve Tests from 1972 to 1979....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Ralph Legall
  Ralph Legall
  Ralph Archibald Legall was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1953....
  
  
• Gus Logie
  Gus Logie
  Augustine Lawrence Logie is a former West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago cricketer and is currently an international cricket coach....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Cyril Merry
  Cyril Merry
  Cyril Arthur Merry was a cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rangy Nanan
  Rangy Nanan
  Rangy Nanan is a former West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1980....
  
  
• Jack Noreiga
  Jack Noreiga
  Jack Mollinson Noreiga was a West Indian cricketer who played in four Tests in 1971....
  
  
• Lance Pierre
  Lance Pierre
  Lancelot Richard Pierre was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1948....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Willie Rodriguez
  Willie Rodriguez
  William Vicente Rodriguez is a former West Indian cricketer who played in five Tests from 1962 to 1968....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Jaswick Taylor
  Jaswick Taylor
  Jaswick Ossie Taylor was a West Indian cricketer who played in three Tests from 1958 to 1959....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago footballers

• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Marvin Andrews
  Marvin Andrews
  Marvin Andrews is a Trinidadian football defender. He currently plays for Scottish Junior Club side Kirkintilloch Rob Roy....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Leslie Fitzpatrick
  Leslie Fitzpatrick
  Leslie "Tiger" Fitzpatrick is a Trinidadian soccer player who currently plays for Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division.-College:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Richard Goddard
• 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...
  
  
• 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:*...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Marlon Rojas
  Marlon Rojas
  Marlon Rojas is a Trinidadian footballer who last played for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second Division.-College:...
  
  
• Collin Samuel
  Collin Samuel
  Collin Samuel is a Trinidad and Tobago football player. He last played for Luton Town in the Conference National.-Club:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rick Titus
• 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:...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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 =...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Olympic competitors for Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...
  
  
• 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:*...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Richard Thompson
  Richard Thompson (athlete)
  Richard "Torpedo" Thompson is a sprinter from Cascade, Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres. He was the silver medalist in the event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, running a personal best of 9.89 seconds....
  
  
• Keston Bledman
  Keston Bledman
  Keston Bledman is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Trinidad and Tobago.On July 7, 2007, at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in São Paulo, Brazil, he upset the Jamaican Yohan Blake in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.32 seconds .Bledman...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Cleopatra Borel-Brown
  Cleopatra Borel-Brown
  Cleopatra Borel-Brown is a female shot putter from Trinidad and Tobago. Her personal best throw is 19.03 metres, achieved in August 2010 at the London Grand Prix in London. She has 19.48 metres on the indoor track, achieved in February 2004 in Blacksburg.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Roger Daniel

See also: #Olympic swimmers of Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago trade unionists

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

Politics of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Elections in Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Government of Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Prime Ministers of Trinidad and Tobago

Members of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago

• Vernella Alleyne-Toppin
• Delmon Baker
• Nizam Baksh
• Amery Browne
• Stephen Cadiz
  Stephen Cadiz
  The Hon. Stephen Cadiz, Member of Parliament for Chaguanas East, assumed the portfolio of Minister of Trade and Industry on Wednesday 2 June 2010. A prominent businessman and social activist, Minister Cadiz heads the Ministry responsible for the country’s diversification drive, i.e...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Clifton De Coteau
• 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...
  
  
• Lincoln Douglas
• Paula Gopee-Scoon
• Tim Gopeesingh
• Rupert Griffith
• Alicia Hospedales
• Nileung Hypolite
• 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...
  
  
• Rudranath Indarsingh
• Fitzgerald Jeffery
• 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...
  
  
• Nela Khan
• 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...
  
  
• Errol Mc Leod
• Marlene McDonald
• Patricia McIntosh
• Roodal Moonilal
• Colin Partap
• 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...
  
  
• Winston 'Gypsy' Peters
• Prakash Ramadhar
• Glenn Ramadharsingh
• Surujrattan Rambachan
  Surujrattan Rambachan
  Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan is a Trinidad and Tobago politician, academic and cultural activist who is the current Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and deputy political leader of the United National Congress Party and member of parliament for Tabaquite...
  
  
• Ramona Ramdial
• Anil Roberts
• Stacy Roopnarine
• Keith Rowley
  Keith Rowley
  Dr. Keith Christopher Rowley is the Member of the House of Representatives for Diego Martin West in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. A geologist by training, Dr. Rowley has been the representative for Diego Martin West since 1991....
  
  
• Rodger Samuel
• Jairam Seemungal
• Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan
• Chandresh Sharma
• Joanne Thomas
• Herbert Volney
• Austin 'Jack' Warner

Former members of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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."...
  
  

Members of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Political parties in Trinidad and Tobago

• List of political parties in Trinidad and Tobago
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Committee for Transformation and Progress
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Movement for National Development
• Movement for National Transformation
• 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 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 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 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago politicians

• 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...
  
  
• Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah Butler
  Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler , was a Grenadian-born Spiritual Baptist preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Dansam Dhansook
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Mottley
  Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago economist, politician and athlete...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Henry Sylvester-Williams
• 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."...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Errol Mc Leod

Public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Divali
• Eid-Ul-Fitr
• Republic Day
  Republic Day
  Republic Day is the name of a holiday in several countries to commemorate the day when they became republics.-1 January in the Republic of Slovakia:This was the day of creation of the Republic of Slovakia. A national holiday since 1993...
  
  
• Independence Day
  Independence Day
  An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a colony or part of another nation or state, and more rarely after the end of a military occupation...
  
  
• Labour Day
  Labour Day
  Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for...
  
  
• Corpus Christi
  Corpus Christi (feast)
  Corpus Christi is a Latin Rite solemnity, now designated the solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ . It is also celebrated in some Anglican, Lutheran and Old Catholic Churches. Like Trinity Sunday and the Solemnity of Christ the King, it does not commemorate a particular event in...
  
  
• Christmas Day
• Boxing Day
  Boxing Day
  Boxing Day is a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws. It is observed in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations. In Ireland, it is recognized as...
  
  
• New Year's Day
  New Year's Day
  New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome...
  
  
• Good Friday
  Good Friday
  Good Friday , is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of...
  
  

Religion in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago religious leaders

Religious groups in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• South Caribbean Conference of Seventh Day Adventists

Sport in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago sportspeople

See also: #Sports venues in Trinidad and Tobago

Cricket in Trinidad and Tobago

• Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval
  Queen's Park Oval, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, is currently the largest capacity cricket ground in the West Indies and has hosted more Test matches than any other ground in the Caribbean. It also hosted a number of matches in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. It is privately owned by the...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago cricketers

Football in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

See also: #Football venues in Trinidad and Tobago

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago footballers

Trinidad and Tobago football clubs

• 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:...
  
  
• Defence Force
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• United Petrotrin
  United Petrotrin
  United Petrotrin is a football club from Trinidad and Tobago, which currently plays in the Professional Football League of Trinidad.-History:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics

• Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympics
• 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:...
  
  

Sport Shooting in Trinidad and Tobago

• Trinidad Rifle Association
• South Trinidad Rifle Association
• Bullseye Air Rifle Club

Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Tobagonian Creole English
  Tobagonian Creole English
  Tobagonian is a creole language and the generally spoken language in Tobago. It is distinct from Trinidadian Creole and closer to other Lesser Antillean English-based creoles.-References:* James, Winford, 2001 .* James, Winford 2001, ....
  
  

Trade unions of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union
• 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...
  
  
• National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago
• National Union of Government and Federated Workers
• National Workers' Union (Trinidad & Tobago)
• 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...
  
  
• 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:*...
  
  
• Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association- TTUTA

See also: #Trinidad and Tobago trade unionists

Transport in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Priority Bus Route
• 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 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

See also: #Airports in Trinidad and Tobago

Airlines of Trinidad and Tobago

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Roads in Trinidad and Tobago

• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Priority Bus Route
• 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...
  
  
• Uriah Butler Highway
  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...
  
  
• Naparima Mayaro Road

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
• List of Trinidad and Tobago-related topics
• Lists of country-related topics
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of North America
• Outline of South America
• 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...
  
  

External links

• Trinidad & Tobago Best Business Directory