{"id":102803,"date":"2026-05-10T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=102803"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:12:50","slug":"trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/trinidad-and-tobago\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Trinidad and Tobago Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">External Affairs recently held comprehensive talks with the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister to explore new ideas and initiatives for expanding bilateral cooperation between India and the dual-island nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Trinidad and Tobago<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>island country <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the<\/span><b> southeastern West Indies.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> largest island country in the West Indies and the <\/span><b>most industrialised and prosperous nation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Caribbean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forming the two <\/span><b>southernmost links in the Caribbean chain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it <\/span><b>lies close to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the continent of <\/span><b>South America,<\/b> <b>northeast of Venezuela<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>northwest of Guyana.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of <\/span><b>two main islands\u2014Trinidad and Tobago<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014and several smaller islands.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Trinidad <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 the <\/span><b>larger <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the two islands, is crisscrossed by <\/span><b>mountain ranges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; the most dominant of these is the <\/span><b>Northern Range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is a <\/span><b>continuation of the <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-andes-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andes <\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/the-andes-mountains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mountains<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It comprises beautiful waterfalls such as the famous <\/span><b>91-metre-high Blue Basin and Maracas Falls.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country is home to the<\/span><b> Pitch Lake,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the <\/span><b>world\u2019s largest natural asphalt deposits.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>achieved independence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the <\/span><b>United Kingdom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1962 and obtained membership in the Commonwealth and the United Nations that same year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It became a <\/span><b>republic <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1976.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>capital <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>Port of Spain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, located on the northwestern coast of Trinidad.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> ethnic makeup<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Trinidad is dominated by <\/span><b>two groups<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, roughly equal in size:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>descendants of enslaved people<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose ancestors were<\/span><b> brought in to work on cotton and sugar plantations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> beginning in the <\/span><b>late 18th century<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Indo-Trinidadians, or East Indians,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose ancestors were primarily labourers who<\/span><b> immigrated from the Indian subcontinent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as plantation <\/span><b>workers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after the abolition of slavery in the <\/span><b>mid-19th century.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although <\/span><b>English <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the <\/span><b>official language,<\/b> <b>most people speak<\/b> <b>Trinidad English, a creole language.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few people, mostly in rural areas, speak a <\/span><b>French-derived creole, Spanish<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><b>Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi).<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypioneer.com\/news\/slug-lite\/jaishankar-trinidad-pm-explore-new-ideas-to-expand-bilateral-cooperation?year=2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinidad and Tobago is an island country of the southeastern West Indies. 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