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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). The nation lies outside the hurricane belt.

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.

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The history of the TT Pro League (formerly known as the Professional Football League) has its roots spanning back to the 1970s and 1980s when Trinidad and Tobago experienced an upswing in support for its domestic football. Several of the national team players featured for Defence Force during its dominance of the National League, which included the Teteron Boys becoming the first Trinidadian and only second club from CONCACAF to accomplish the continental treble in 1985. In addition, the national team also rose to prominence in the late 1980s after falling short by one match of qualification for the nation's first FIFA World Cup in 1989. Optimism for the growth and community interest of football in Trinidad and Tobago was at an all-time high. However, the early 1990s would mark a low point in Trinidad and Tobago football. In 1993, after a streak of poor performances, the Soca Warriors gave its worst ever showing in the 1993 Caribbean Cup after finishing a disappointing third, which was preceded by an early exit from its '94 for Sure campaign to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup hosted in the United States.

In response to the downward trend in the sport, several initiatives were implemented by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association to repair its credibility and return confidence among the clubs and businesses to support domestic football. In 1994, the Football Association secured a four-year agreement with Umbro to sponsor the national team with equipment and apparel. This was soon followed by an announcement that local beer manufacturers Carib agreed to become the title sponsor of the National League, which included the injection of prize money for the first time in domestic football. The following year, Trinidadian and former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner proposed that the creation of a professional football league in Trinidad and Tobago was needed to strengthen its national team and improve the development of its domestic players. In order to establish a professional football league in the country, the Football Association created the Semi-Professional League in 1996 to provide teams and players a three-year period to meet admission criteria and transition to life in a professional league. (Full article...)
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8 April 2024 – Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024
A total solar eclipse occurs in North America for the first time since 2017. It is the last total solar eclipse to be visible in the contiguous United States until 2044. (Fox Weather)

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  • Fishing - Tobago, West Indies (from Tobago)
  • Green stone ceremonial axe. From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957 (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Panoramic shot of Downtown Scarborough, Tobago (from Tobago)
  • Castara Bay (from Tobago)
  • Red-billed tropicbird on Little Tobago. (from Tobago)
  • Castara village beach (from Tobago)
  • Tobago Cuisine - Crab and Dumplings (from Tobago)
  • Location of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean
  • Regional Geology of Trinidad and Venezuela (from Trinidad)
  • A medallion commemorating the capture of Trinidad and Tobago by the British in 1797.
  • Seventeenth-century map showing the fort of Nieuw Vlissingen. (from Tobago)
  • Greenstone ceremonial axe, from shell midden, Mount Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957. (from Tobago)
  • 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)
  • Temple in the Sea historical marker. (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • People celebrating Phagwah. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Nativity scene in Scarborough, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • St Giles Island, northernmost part of
    Trinidad and Tobago, a bird sanctuary (from Tobago)
  • Divali Nagar in Chaguanas, Caroni County, Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Maha Shivratri festival (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Krishna, Radha, and the Gopis celebrating Phagwah. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Pigeon Point, Tobago. (from Tobago)
  • Newly arrived indentured Indians in Trinidad and Tobago (from History of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Tobago - August 2013 (1530) (from Tobago)
  • Hummingbirds of Trinidad and Tobago (from Biota of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Diyas lighting on Divali night in Trinidad and Tobago. (from Culture of Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Tobago Cuisine - Pacro Water and Sea Moss drinks (from Tobago)
  • French attack on the British island of Tobago in 1781 with text. French painting from 1784. (from Tobago)
  • Protector of Slaves Office (Trinidad), Richard Bridgens, c. 1833. (from History of Trinidad and 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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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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Castara village beach looking south, Tobago (March 1999)

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  • List of Caribbean membranophones
  • List of international cricket centuries by Brian Lara
  • List of snakes of Trinidad and Tobago

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  • Black-bellied whistling ducks (Dendrocygna autumnalis)

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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.
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