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  Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trinidad and Tobago is one of the most prosperous nations in the Caribbean, although less so than it was during the "oil boom" between 1973 and 1983.
Trinidad and Tobago are supplied with the North Easterly winds which blow from the north east of the islands to the south west of the islands.
Trinidad and Tobago are famous as the birthplace of calypso music, as well as the development of the steel pan, which is widely claimed to be the only acoustic musical instrument invented during the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago   (2115 words)

  
 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a nation located in the southern Caribbean_Sea, situated 11 km.
It is an archipelagic state consisting of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands, the most important being Chacachacare, Monos, Huevos, Gaspar_Grande (or Gasparee), Little_Tobago and St.
Although it is located just off-shore from South_America, Trinidad and Tobago is sometimes considered to be part of the North American continent by virtue of its being a Caribbean country.
www.flowergods.com /Trinidad_and_Tobago   (1917 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago - Gurupedia
The federation was dissolved quickly, and the independent nation of Trinidad and Tobago was formed in 1962.
As the majority of the population lives on Trinidad, this is the location of most major towns, including the capital Port of Spain.
Trinidad and Tobago are famous as the birthplace of the calypso music, as well as the music of the steel pan (whose patent is held by someone in Maryland, United States).
www.gurupedia.com /t/tr/trinidad_and_tobago.htm   (745 words)

  
 TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
Trinidad and Tobago is a democracy that maintains close relations with its Caribbean neighbors and major North American and European trading partners.
Assistance to Trinidad and Tobago from U.S. military, law enforcement authorities, and in the area of health issues remains important to the bilateral relationship and to accomplishing U.S. policy objectives.
Trinidad and Tobago is a beneficiary of the U.S. Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI).
www.traveldocs.com /tt/foreign.htm   (770 words)

  
 Speeches: Trinidad & Tobago - Barbados Relations : Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The effect of Barbados’ approach is to deny Trinidad and Tobago’s archipelagic status as it applies to the East coast, and Trinidad and Tobago’s maritime zones in the Atlantic Ocean sector.
Trinidad and Tobago cannot repudiate this Treaty and remain in fidelity to the dictates of international law on matters of this nature.
This is the same Trinidad and Tobago that in 1970, under the leadership of Dr. Eric Williams, in a profound act of regional solidarity, ensured through the Port of Spain Accord, that Guyana’s newly won independence was not held hostage to the territorial claim by Venezuela.
www.gov.tt /ttgov/speeches/speech.asp?id=1675   (2960 words)

  
 Background Notes: Trinidad & Tobago 3/98
Trinidad and Tobago purchases a broad range of goods and services abroad, 38% of which are from the U.S. which, in turn, buys 44% of Trinidad and Tobago's exports.
Trinidad and Tobago is a unitary state, with a parliamentary democracy modeled after that of the U.K. From 1962 until 1976, Trinidad and Tobago, although completely independent, acknowledged the British monarch as the figurehead chief of state.
Tobago was given a measure of self-government in 1980 and is ruled by the Tobago House of Assembly.
www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/backgroundnotes/109.htm   (2870 words)

  
 Trinidad & Tobago: Business Center of the Caribbean -- Supplement to Site Selection magazine, July 1999
Trinidad is the larger of the two islands and home to the capital city (Port of Spain) and most of the country's 1.3 million people and industrial development.
Trinidad and Tobago is committed to an open, market-driven economy and the encouragement of private enterprise and foreign investment.
Trinidad and Tobago offers "a stable industrial relations climate and a reservoir of skilled manpower which can be harnessed to attain the most demanding standards of performance consistent with the requirements for global competitiveness," Prime Minister Basdeo Panday says.
www.conway.com /trinidad/9907   (1067 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago - Agriculture
Agricultural output in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1970s and 1980s was inversely related to the performance of the oil sector: depressed during the oil boom, stimulated during oil's decline.
Trinidad and Tobago's total land area covers 513,000 hectares, of which less than one-third was arable.
Trinidad and Tobago's sugar quota with the EEC was reduced at the 1985 Lomé Convention (see Glossary) from 69,000 tons to 47,300 tons as a result of its inability to fill the previous quota.
countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/52.htm   (2509 words)

  
 US Department of State Dispatch: U.S. relations with Trinidad and Tobago: a record of investment and economic ...
We in Trinidad and Tobago have been associated with American investors for decades, and following our far-reaching review of our foreign investment policy and legislation and the liberalization of our trade and investment regime, the list of foreign companies doing business or seeking to do business in Trinidad and Tobago is growing all the time.
Since 1990, Trinidad and Tobago has sent 48% of its exports to the U.S. and, in turn, the United States has supplied well over 40% of Trinidad's imports, and that figure is growing rapidly.
I might also add that Trinidad and Tobago is near the top in the hemisphere in per capita GDP and in international credit rating.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n10_v7/ai_18243505   (1547 words)

  
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The person holding the office of Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago at the commencement of this Constitution shall hold the office of President under this Constitution until a President is elected under the provisions of this Chapter and assumes office.
Trinidad and Tobago shall be divided into thirty-six constituencies or such other number as may be provided for by an Order made by the President in accordance with the provisions of this Part and each such constituency shall return one member to the House of Representatives.
The executive authority of Trinidad and Tobago shall be vested in the President and, subject to this Constitution, may be exercised by him either directly or through officers subordinate to him.
www.constitution.org /cons/trinidad.htm   (14986 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago (08/05)
Trinidad and Tobago is the 5th largest exporter of LNG in the world and the single largest supplier of LNG to the U.S., supplying between 70-75% of all LNG imported into the U.S. Overall, the petroleum sector grew by 10.5% in 2004, the third straight year of double-digit growth.
Recognizing the role that energy plays in the economic life of Trinidad and Tobago, where it was the source last year of 37% of governmental revenues, the government is seeking to diversify the economy to reduce dependence on the energy sector and to achieve self-sustaining growth.
Trinidad and Tobago is active in the Summit of the Americas process of Organization of American States (OAS).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35638.htm   (3773 words)

  
 Airlines In Trinidad & Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago is expected to benefit from increased tourist arrivals from Germany, up from 7,000 last year to 12,000.
Tobago officials welcome the move as the sister-isle, like many of the region’s other tourism destinations, suffered significantly as result of the aftermath of 9/11.
Trinidad and Tobago's most expensive and controversial structure - the new Piarco terminal project - officially opens tomorrow, with the minister currently in charge of it declaring it comparable to the world's best.
www.socawarriors.net /airlines_in_trinidad.htm   (13378 words)

  
 Fidel Castro, diplomatic relations with Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
Fidel Castro, diplomatic relations with Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
Guyana’s foreign minister at the time was Sir Shridath Ramphall, whom we have invited to this meeting for the role he played and continues to play in support of regional integration, particularly the integration of Cuba not only to the Caribbean, but also to the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of Nations (ACP).
Diplomatic relations were officially established on December 8, 1972, in ceremonies held simultaneously at the Jamaican Mission to the United Nations and the Cuban Embassy in Ottawa.
ww.embacubalebanon.com /discurso08dec2002e.html   (1538 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago - A brief New-World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Trinidad would consequently be ruled by only two empires, the Spanish for 299 years and the British for 179 years, before enjoining the twin-island Republic in 1976; which approximates to 478 years of foreign rule, 24 of self-rule, in 502 years of New World existence to the turn of the New Millennium.
Trinidad would remain essentially underdeveloped for just 16 years short of the the first 300 years under Spanish occupation; their attentions focused elsewhere, until around the early 1780's.
Given Tobago's previous history, it may be assumed that there are small European colony groups [most likely Dutch] living on the island probably with their slaves, and an equal or larger number of runaway and some free slaves, and the Amerindians.
www.seetobago.com /tandt/carnival/dates/cdttnwhistory.htm   (12890 words)

  
 Barbados - Foreign Relations
The principle of foreign policy coordination among Commonwealth Caribbean countries, as advocated by Barrow, was achieved in theory with the advent of Caricom.
Indeed, from 1976 until 1982 Barbadian foreign policy seemed to be driven primarily by economic imperatives, such as the promotion of trade (including tourism), the attraction of capital, and the expansion of domestic industry.
Barbados, along with Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, had defied both the United States and the Organization of American States to establish relations with Cuba in 1972 in keeping with a general commitment to ideological pluralism.
countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/90.htm   (1178 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago (Rough Guides)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Nudging the South American mainland they were once attached to, Trinidad and Tobago (usually shortened to T&T) form the southernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles chain and the most influential republic in the Eastern Caribbean.
Trinidad and Tobago remain relatively inexpensive, and are well-geared to independent travellers without being fully fledged tourist resorts.
Though Tobago boasts the oldest protected rainforest in the western hemisphere, the smaller island is better known for its stunning coral reefs, declared third best in the Caribbean by Jacques Cousteau and favoured by graceful seven-metre manta rays and shoals of technicolour tropical fish.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1858283795?v=glance   (2084 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago: Constitution
Appointments of principal representatives of Trinidad and Tobago.
CONTINUATION OF Subject to subsection (2), every person born in Trinidad and Tobago after the commencement of this Constitution shall become a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago at the date of his birth.
Where the office of President is vacant or the President is incapable of performing his functions as President by reason of his absence from Trinidad and Tobago or by reason of illness, the President of the Senate shall act temporarily as President.
www.georgetown.edu /pdba/Constitutions/Trinidad/trinidad76.html   (13457 words)

  
 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Trinidad and Tobago continues to attach high importance to the need for special attention to be paid by the international community to the unique challenges and problems which confront Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and to the full and effective implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS.
Another issue which is of utmost concern to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and, indeed to all CARICOM Governments, is the continued transshipment of nuclear wastes through the Caribbean Sea.
It is in this context that the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago welcomes the call made by the U.N. Secretary-General in his statement to this General Assembly on 23'd September for a thorough restructuring of the post-WWII institutional architecture of the U.N. through the reform and strengthening of its major organs.
www.un.org /webcast/ga/58/statements/trineng031002.htm   (2203 words)

  
 Graeme Mount, Professor of History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Presbyterian Missions to Trinidad and Puerto Rico - The Canadian Presbyterian Mission to Trinidad and the Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the USA to Puerto Rico: The Formative Years, 1868-1914.
Basdeo, Sahadeo and Graeme S. Mount, The Foreign Relations of Trinidad and Tobago: 1962-2000.
Sahadeo Basdeo and Graeme Mount, “Relations between Canada and Trinidad and Tobago during the Administrations of George Chambers (1981-1986) Arthur N.R. Robinson (1986-1991)”, Journal of Caribbean Studies, XVII, 1,2(Summer and Fall, 2002), pp.
www.laurentian.ca /history/gsm.html   (2921 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Trinidad and Tobago - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Includes Heads of State, Prime Ministers, Foreign, Trade and Aid Ministers.
Consulate-General of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, NSW
www.dfat.gov.au /geo/trinidad_tobago   (93 words)

  
 Laurentian University Faculty Publications: Graeme Mount, Dept. of History
THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: THE CASE OF A SMALL STATE IN THE GLOBAL ARENA.
Mount, G. Jennifer McNenly and Andrew McGregor (eds.), A Bibliogaphy of Works on Canadian Foreign Relations, 1991-1995.
Mount, G. Discovering the Americas: the evolution of Canadian foreign policy towards Latin America.
www.laurentian.ca /admn/GRAD_STUDY/FACPUBLICATIONS/HISTORY/gmount.html   (1521 words)

  
 Trinidad & Tobago Minsitires Portfolios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Trinidad and Tobago Association in Aid of the Deaf
Trinidad and Tobago Solid Waste Management Company Ltd
Maritime and Fisheries Institute of Trinidad & Tobago
www.tntisland.com /portfolios.html   (240 words)

  
 Heritage Library Information Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Family Planning - Trinidad and Tobago/ West Indies
Fishing Industry - Trinidad and Tobago/ West Indies
Foreign Relations - Trinidad and Tobago/ West Indies
www.nalis.gov.tt /Education/FA-FYresources.html   (49 words)

  
 Trinidad & Tobago - Eduseek
Subjects > Geography > Geographical Information and Statistics > Human World > Countries > North America > Trinidad & Tobago
UNDP on Trinidad and Tobago - Information from the United Nations on these countries - facts and figures, economy, governance and the environment
Trinidad and Tobago - Background Notes - Background notes on the country from the US Department of State - Profile, History, Politics, Economy and Foreign Relations.
www.eduseek.com /navigate.php?ID=10624   (102 words)

  
 Trinidad and Tobago Visa Application - Tourist Visas, Business Visas, Expedited Visas - Trinidad and Tobago Page
Trinidad and Tobago Visa Application - Tourist Visas, Business Visas, Expedited Visas - Trinidad and Tobago Page
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