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The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a country located at the southern tip of the Caribbean. It borders the countries of Grenada and Venezuela. It was the first Caribbean country to host the Summit of the Americas. It shares maritime boundaries with other nations including Barbados to the northeast, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west. A treaty between the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Republic of Venezuela on the delimitation of marine and submarine areas, 18 April 1990. The country covers an area of 5,128 square kilometres (1,980 sq mi) and consists of two eponymous main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous smaller landforms. Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the main islands; Tobago is much smaller, comprising about 6% of the total area and 4% of the entire population which is estimated at 1.3 million (2005).

Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago's economy is primarily industrial with an emphasis on petroleum and petrochemicals.

Trinidad and Tobago is well known for its African and Indian cultures, reflected in its large and famous Carnival, Diwali, and Hosay celebrations, as well being the birthplace of steelpan, the limbo, and music styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, parang, chutney, and chutney soca.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

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Trinidad and Tobago sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Its participation in the Beijing games marked its eighteenth Olympic appearance and fifteenth Summer Olympic appearance since its debut at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, excluding its joint participation with Jamaica and Barbados in 1960 as the West Indies Federation. With 28 athletes, more Trinidadians had competed at the Olympics than in any other single Olympic Games in its history before Beijing. Athletes representing Trinidad and Tobago advanced past the preliminary or qualification rounds in twelve events and reached the final rounds in four of those events. Of those four events, silver medals were won in the men's 100 meters (by Richard Thompson) and in the men's 4x100 meters relay (by Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender, Richard Thompson, and Aaron Armstrong, who participated in the first round only). The latter was upgraded to gold due to one member of the quartet that crossed the line first, Nesta Carter, testing positive for a banned substance, resulting in their disqualification. The nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony that year was swimmer and Athens medalist George Bovell. ( Full article...)

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We cannot allow our young people to die through ignorance. Ignorance will not save lives...sex education and facing facts will.

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24 July 2024 – China–Russia relations, China–United States relations, Russia–United States relations: The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepts two Russian and two Chinese bomber aircraft flying together near Alaska, marking the first record of Chinese H-6 aircraft entering Alaska's Air Defense Identification Zone, and marking the first time both countries were intercepted operating together. (CNN)
17 July 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: The confirmed death toll from Hurricane Beryl in Texas, United States, increases to 22, with several deaths in the Greater Houston area caused by heat illness due to prolonged power outages amid an ongoing heat wave. (NPR) (KRIV-TV)
7 July 2024 – 2024 North America heat waves: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, reaches 120 °F (49 °C), the city's highest temperature of all time, and surpassing the previous record of 117 °F (47 °C) set in July 2021. (KTNV-TV) (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
6 July 2024 – 2024 North America heat waves: Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, investigates over 160 suspected heat-related deaths related to ongoing heat waves in Arizona, California, and Oregon. (AP)
5 July 2024 – Hurricane Beryl: Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico after killing 12 people in the Caribbean. (AP)
3 July 2024 – 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: The death toll from Hurricane Beryl in the eastern Caribbean increases to nine, with deaths reported in Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Venezuela. (Reuters)

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Image 1St Giles Island, northernmost part of
Trinidad and Tobago, a bird sanctuary (from Tobago)
Image 2Seventeenth-century map showing the fort of Nieuw Vlissingen. (from Tobago)
Image 3 Krishna, Radha, and the Gopis celebrating Phagwah. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 4Pigeon Point, Tobago. (from Tobago)
Image 5 Moruga – Christopher Columbus monument. Columbus landed here on his third voyage in 1498. This is on the southern coast of the island of Trinidad, West Indies (from Trinidad)
Image 6Hummingbirds of Trinidad and Tobago (from Biota of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 7 Diyas lighting on Divali night in Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 8A medallion commemorating the capture of Trinidad and Tobago by the British in 1797.
Image 9Green stone ceremonial axe. From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957 (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 10People celebrating Phagwah. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 11 Maha Shivratri festival (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 12Tobago - August 2013 (1530) (from Tobago)
Image 13Panoramic shot of Downtown Scarborough, Tobago (from Tobago)
Image 14 Nativity scene in Scarborough, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 15Tobago Cuisine - Crab and Dumplings (from Tobago)
Image 16 Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 17Newly arrived indentured Indians in Trinidad and Tobago (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 18 Greenstone ceremonial axe, from shell midden, Mount Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957. (from Tobago)
Image 19Tobago Cuisine - Pacro Water and Sea Moss drinks (from Tobago)
Image 20French attack on the British island of Tobago in 1781 with text. French painting from 1784. (from Tobago)
Image 21Fishing - Tobago, West Indies (from Tobago)
Image 22Castara village beach (from Tobago)
Image 23 Divali Nagar in Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 24Location of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean
Image 25Regional Geology of Trinidad and Venezuela (from Trinidad)
Image 26 Red-billed tropicbird on Little Tobago. (from Tobago)
Image 27Protector of Slaves Office (Trinidad), Richard Bridgens, c. 1833. (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 28 Temple in the Sea historical marker. (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
Image 29Historical parishes of Tobago (from Tobago)
Image 30Castara Bay (from Tobago)

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... that Sarran Teelucksingh (c. 1890–1952) was the first Indo-Trinidadian elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago?
... that the National Union of Freedom Fighters in Trinidad and Tobago was the only group to sustain a guerrilla insurgency in the modern English-speaking Caribbean over an extended period of time?
... that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago?

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Buljol is a salad dish of the cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago. It consists of chopped codfish, tomatoes and chilies. The name is of French origin. 18th century colonial power Spain launched the cédula de población in 1783, an edict that successfully promoted the settling of French (i.e. likewise Catholic) planters in Trinidad who quickly set the population majority. The name is a combination of the French words brulé (burnt) and gueule (muzzle), which was changed into "bu'n jaw" in Trinidad's 19th century patois and finally morphed into "buljol". The name does not relate to the temperature of the dish (it's served cold) but to its hotness, caused by the added hot pepper.

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City of San Fernando, the most populous city and second most populous municipality in Trinidad and Tobago (2004)

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^ "In Trinidad, Diwali Lights Up Like Christmas". NPR. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Diwali in Trinidad and Tobago". trinidad.us. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Ingram, Amy. "What is Chutney Music?". Wesleyan University. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
^ "Parang Music". Destination Trinidad and Tobago. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
^ "Soca Music History". Artdrum. Archived from the original on 19 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
^ "A brief history of the steel pan". BBC. 24 July 2012.
^ "Trinidad Carnival for Beginners". Caribbean Beat. 1 January 1993. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[1] "In Trinidad, Diwali Lights Up Like Christmas". NPR. Archived from the original on 17 February 2020. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[2] "Diwali in Trinidad and Tobago". trinidad.us. Archived from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[3] Ingram, Amy. "What is Chutney Music?". Wesleyan University. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[4] "Parang Music". Destination Trinidad and Tobago. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[5] "Soca Music History". Artdrum. Archived from the original on 19 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

[6] "A brief history of the steel pan". BBC. 24 July 2012.

[7] "Trinidad Carnival for Beginners". Caribbean Beat. 1 January 1993. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

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