The head of state is the president, who is elected by the members of Parliament for a five-year term. Aministratively, the country is divided into 9 regional corporations, 2 city corporations, 3 borough corporations, and 1 ward (Tobago). History Trinidad was visited by Christopher Columbus ...
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: FORMER PRIME MINISTER IS NOW PRESIDENTWesley Gibbings
Trinidad and Tobago - Multicultural, Caribbean, Islands: The original inhabitants of Trinidad migrated from the Orinoco River delta region of northeastern South America and probably spoke an Arawakan language. It seems likely that by the time the Spanish
Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in keeping with the provision of Section 3(9) of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, to revoke the appointment of Mr Darryl Smith as Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development...
On the 1st, the United Nations General Assembly elected Denis Francis, the Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, as the President of the 78th United Nations General Assembly. Francis delivered a speech after his election, promising to bear in mind the principle of...
Once upon a time not so very long ago, Trinidad and Tobago had a handful of older citizens, alive, if not kicking. Many were reclusive, perhaps eccentric. So it seemed, anyway. Mostly they would stay by themselves, hardly mix even with others of similar age. And, since it seemed diffic...
On August 1st 1976, the new constitution was promulgated, and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago was proclaimed, with the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, becoming the first President. The 1st Republican Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago held its first session on September 24th 1976. ...
Trinidad and Tobago gained full national independence within the British Commonwealth in August 1962, and it became a republic and elected its first President in 1976. There's not a lot in Chaguaramas Town — some military facilities, the police academy and the fire academy, a large former ...
Port of Spain, capital city and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, southeastern West Indies. It is on the west coast of the island of Trinidad, below the northern peninsula on the Gulf of Paria, which separates the island from the northeastern coast of V
Basdeo Panday, a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago who was the first person of Indian descent to hold that position, has died at the age of 90.