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Trinidad and Tobago is one of the wealthiest and most developed nations in the Caribbean and is listed in the top 40 (2010 information) of the 70 High Income countries in the world. Its GNI per capita of US$20,070 [ 1 ] (2014 GNI at Atlas Method) is one of the highest in the Caribbean. [ 2 ]
Woodford cancelled the publisher's appointment as Government Printer. Unable to make money without a government contract, Lewer sold the paper's copyrights and business address to John Holman and Company who launched the Port of Spain Gazette, and its printing presses to J. W. Irwin who launched the Trinidad Guardian. [1] [fn 1]
Edward Lanza Joseph (c. 1792 – 1838) was a Trinidadian journalist, playwright and author. He was one of the first English-language poets in British Trinidad , also writing in Trinidadian Creole . He briefly served as editor of the Port of Spain Gazette and published one of the first books on the history of Trinidad .
The company is also a distiller and is the major producer of rum in Trinidad and Tobago. The company also has been used as a vehicle for international expansion by its parent company, CL Financial . As a result of these acquisitions, the company owns distillers in the United States , Canada , The Bahamas and Suriname .
Caribbean immigration to New York City has been prevalent since the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. [1] This immigration wave has seen large numbers of people from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, among others, come to New York City in the 20th and 21st centuries.
By early 1907 major drilling operations began, roads and other infrastructure were built. Annual production of oil in Trinidad and Tobago reached 47,000 barrels (7,500 m 3) by 1910 and kept rapidly increasing year by year. [35] [36] Estimated oil production in Trinidad and Tobago in 2005 was about 150,000 bbl/d (24,000 m 3 /d). [37]
In 1900, the bank acquired the National Union Bank of New York which had been founded in 1893 by the directors of the New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company and its successor, the Guaranty Trust, and was associated with the Mutual Life Insurance Company (Mutual Life's president, Richard A. McCurdy, was a director of National Union).
Charles S. Fairchild, the first president of New York Trust Company Otto T. Bannard, the company's second president Harvey Dow Gibson, the company's fourth president. On April 3, 1889, the New York Security and Trust Company received its certificate of authorization and was formed with Charles S. Fairchild as the first president and "original capital" of $1,000,000. [2]