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Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies 11 km (6.8 mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the West Indies.
From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957. Human settlement in Trinidad dates back at least 7,000 years. The earliest settlers, termed Archaic or Ortoiroid, are believed to have settled Trinidad and Tobago from actual Venezuela at northeastern South America around 4000 BC. Twenty-nine Archaic sites have been identified, mostly in south ...
Trinidad: A Philatelic History to 1913. Alicante: British West Indies Study Circle in conjunction with the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group, 2010, 359 pages, ISBN 9781095065358; Wike, R.G. Airmails of Trinidad and Tobago. Congleton: British West Indies Study Circle, 1999, 214 pages, ISBN 0950653594
The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the European colonies in the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations on European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies ...
Port of Spain. / 10.667°N 61.517°W / 10.667; -61.517. Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain ), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municipal population of 37,074 (2011), [ 2] an urban population of 81,142 ...
Caribbean Airlines Limited is the state-owned airline and flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. [ 5] Headquartered in Iere House in Piarco, the airline operates flights to the Caribbean, North America and South America from its base at Piarco International Airport, Trinidad. Presently Caribbean Airlines employs more than 1,600 people ...
San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando, is the most populous city and second most populous municipality in Trinidad and Tobago, after Chaguanas. Sando, as it is known to many local Trinidadians, occupies 19 km 2 and is located in the southwestern part of the island of Trinidad. It is bounded to the north by the Guaracara River, the ...
The West India Interest [6] was formed in the 1740s, when the British merchants joined with the West Indian sugar planters. The British and West Indies shared profits and needs. This organization was the first sugar-trading organization which had a large voice in Parliament.