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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]

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 subvert the neocolonial order held over from the days of British slavery and imperialism, and supported by Anglo-American collusive efforts to maintain dominating influence in the Caribbean region. (Full article...)
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Country will never be lost, if we continue to produce children, like the children I saw in North Eastern College.

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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)
25 June 2024 – 2024 North America heat waves
Puerto Rico announces its first island-wide heat advisory to all 78 municipalities due to predicted highs of 114°F (46°C) and widespread power outages. (AP)

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  • ... that Arthur N. R. Robinson (1926–2014), the country's third President, is the only person to have served as both Prime Minister and President of Trinidad and Tobago?
  • ... that Stella Abidh (1903–1989) is believed to be the first Indo-Trinidadian woman to become a medical doctor?
  • ... that Mike Agostini (1935–2016) was the first track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games?

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Callaloo (sometimes kallaloo, calaloo, calalloo, or callalloo) is a popular Caribbean vegetable dish. There are many variants across the Caribbean, depending on the availability of local vegetables. The main ingredient is an indigenous leaf vegetable, traditionally either amaranth (known by many local names including callaloo), taro leaves (known by many local names, including dasheeen bush, callaloo bush, callaloo, or bush) or Xanthosoma leaves (known by many names, including coco & tannia). Since the leaf vegetable used in some regions may be locally called "callaloo" or "callaloo bush" "dasheen Leaves", some confusion can arise among the vegetables and with the dish itself. This, as is the case with many other Caribbean dishes, is a remnant of West African cuisine. Trinbagonians, Grenadians and Dominicans primarily use taro/dasheen bush for callaloo, although Dominicans also use water spinach.

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  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.