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The country's highest court is the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago, [5] whose chief justice is appointed by the president after consultation with the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. [6] The current Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago is Ivor Archie. [7]
In 1958, Trinidad and Tobago joined the West Indies Federation. [8] The federation, which included Barbados, the British Leeward Islands, the British Windward Islands, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago, was typically seen by its supporters as a means to use a federal structure to gain national independence and eventual recognition as a Dominion ...
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
Other elected bodies include the local government bodies in Trinidad (two cities, three boroughs, nine regional corporations) [1] and the Tobago House of Assembly, which handles local government in the island of Tobago and is entrenched in the constitution. Until 1925 Trinidad and Tobago was a British colony ruled through a pure, unelected ...
Section 4 of the Constitution prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sex. [1] In 2014, Trinidad and Tobago ranked 49th on the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, with a score of 0.715, down from its 36th place in 2013. In terms of participation in the labor force, the country ranked 87th, with 59% of women participating as ...
The People's National Movement (PNM) is the longest-serving and oldest active political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party has dominated national and local politics for much of Trinidad and Tobago's history, contesting all elections since 1956 serving as the nation's governing party or on four occasions, the main opposition. It is one out ...
Constituencies of the House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago No. Name Number of polling divisions (2020) [2] Electorate (2020) [2] 1 Arima: 40 26,384 2 Arouca/Maloney: 24 26,673 3 Barataria/San Juan: 47 25.690 4 Caroni Central: 33 30.107 5 Caroni East: 26 29,031 6 Chaguanas East: 32 26,923 7 Chaguanas West: 30 28,625 8 Couva North: 37 ...
The Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago is the legislative branch of Trinidad and Tobago.The Parliament is bicameral.Besides the President of Trinidad and Tobago, it is composed of the House of Representatives, which is composed of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in addition to 41 directly elected members serving a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and the Senate which ...