It was an odd combination a strange pair to stumble upon the wreck of the Trinidad.

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Lara played in Trinidad and Tobago junior soccer and table tennis sides but Lara believed that cricket was his path to success, saying that he wanted to emulate his idols Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks.

Lara was also a talented football player in his youth and often played with his close friends Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop and Russell Latapy while growing up together in Trinidad.

The base was also an important intermediate distribution point for World War II merchant shipping convoys from New York City and Key West, Florida, to the Panama Canal and the islands of Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad, a series of names honoring various saints and relatives.

In 2000, FARC Spokesman Simon Trinidad said that taxes on drug laboratories represented part of the organization's income, but argued that the drug trade was so endemic in Colombia that it financed all banking, industry and politics in the country to some extent, so that criticism of FARC in this regard was hypocritical.

Commander Trinidad said he did not know how many people had been taken by FARC or how much money was collected by the organization in exchange for their freedom.

He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, and was appointed Governor of Trinidad.

Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists.

After land of Trinidad and Tobago was claimed, Columbus moved further down the coast to what is now the tip Venezuela.

Although in 1510 Trinidad and Tobago was said to have the only " peaceful Indians " along the whole South American coast, demand for slaves to supply the pearl-fisheries in nearby Isla Margarita led to them being declared " Caribs

In 1530 Antonio Sedeño was granted a contract to settle Trinidad and Tobago, with an eye toward discovering El Dorado and controlling the trade in slaves.

After failing to attract more settlers to Trinidad and Tobago, Sedeño was forced to withdraw in 1534.

In 1553 Juan Sedeño was authorised to settle Trinidad and Tobago, but the contract was never fulfilled.

In Trinidad and Tobago, as in other Caribbean slave colonies, an attempt was made to circumvent the abolition of slavery in 1833.

In 1853 the law was again amended to allow the indentured labourers to re-indenture themselves for a second five-year term or, if they wished, to commute any portion of their contract by repayment of a proportionate part of their indenture fee. Newly arrived indentured India ns in Trinidad and Tobago

The American Merrimac Oil Company drilled what is said to be, " the first successful well in the world " at La Brea at Trinidad and Tobago in 1857, where oil was struck at.

Estimated oil production in Trinidad and Tobago in 2005 was about.

Rather, Trinidad was once part of the South American mainland and is situated on its continental shelf, and Tobago is part of a sunken island arc chain related to the Pacific-derived Caribbean Plate.

Because it was once part of South America, Trinidad has an assortment of tropical vegetation and wildlife considerably more varied than that of most West Indian islands.

A major expansion of the Piarco International Airport in Trinidad, the country's main airport, was completed in 2001.

Although this was ruled a knockdown, Trinidad recuperated quickly, and went back into trading with Mayorga.

Until 1925 Trinidad and Tobago was a British Colony ruled through a pure, unelected Crown Colony system, although elected Borough and Municipal Councils existed in Port of Spain and San Fernando.

Between 1797 and 1925 Trinidad was directly ruled from Britain as a crown colony with no elected representation.

In 1889 Tobago was united with Trinidad into a British crown colony.

Wendy Fitzwilliam ( born October 4, 1972 in Diego Martin ) is a former Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe, the third woman of African heritage to capture the Miss Universe crown and the second Miss Universe in history from Trinidad and Tobago.

The subspecies Platyrinchus mystaceus insularis occurs only in Trinidad, Tobago and in Venezuela, other forms differing in the brightness of the underparts or the crown colour.

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, plantation owners in the new British colony of Trinidad and Tobago were left with a severe shortage of labour.

There is a minimal agricultural railway system near San Fernando, but the Trinidad Government Railway that was built while Trinidad and Tobago was a colony of the United Kingdom was gradually scaled back until it was discontinued in 1968.

* February 18 – Spanish Governor José Maria Chacón peacefully surrenders the colony of Trinidad to a British naval force commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby.

After a brief period in Trinidad where his health began to fail, he decided to try the fair climate of British Honduras which was recommended to him by his friend and then Attorney General of the colony, Mr. Willoughby Bullock.

Born in Trinidad, then a British Crown colony, James attended Queen's Royal College, a high school in Port of Spain.

At this time, Britain needed to have a colony, besides Trinidad, to serve the large trade sailboats on their large travel trading route around South America.

Until the mid-nineteenth century, the term " Crown colony " was primarily used to refer to those colonies which had been acquired through wars, such as Trinidad and Tobago and British Guiana, but after that time it was more broadly applied to any colony other than the Presidencies and provinces of British India and the colonies of settlement, such as The Canadas, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and New Zealand, later to become the Dominions.

The history of currency in the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago closely follows that of the British Eastern Caribbean territories in general.

With the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, the new British colony of Trinidad was left with a severe shortage of labour.

Full emancipation for all was legally granted ahead of schedule on 1 August 1838, making Trinidad the first British colony with slaves to completely abolish slavery.

Sir William Robinson GCMG ( Chinese: 威廉 · 羅便臣 ; 1836 – 1912 ) was a British colonial governor who was the last Governor of Trinidad and the first Governor of the merged colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

In 1889 the colony of Tobago was merged with Trinidad into the united colony of Trinidad and Tobago, with Robinson as its first governor, a position he held until 1891.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

In the Caribbean, the leaves are called bhaji in Trinidad and callaloo in Jamaica, and are stewed with onions, garlic and tomatoes, or sometimes used in a soup called pepperpot soup.

Aged 14, he amassed 745 runs in the schoolboys ' league, with an average of 126. 16 per innings, which earned him selection for the Trinidad national under-16 team.

Countries which often operate with coalition cabinets include: the Nordic countries, the Benelux countries, Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand and Ukraine.

Other countries with large Hindu populations include Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji and the island of Bali.

In the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, the word planass means to hit someone with the flat of the blade of a machete or cutlass.

The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

FARC-EP Commander Simón Trinidad has stated that FARC does not allow the enlistment of people under 15 years of age, arguing that this is in accordance with Article 38 of the United Nations ' Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The history of Trinidad begins with the settlements of the islands by Amerindians.

To deal with the problem of " shortage of labor ", Trinidad and Tobago planters compensated for the loss of their slaves by importing workers from the 1830s until 1917.

Venezuelan farmers with experience in cacao cultivation were also encouraged to settle in Trinidad and Tobago, where they provided much of the early labour in these estates.

The arrival of witches ' broom and black pod diseases in the 1930s, coupled with the Great Depression, destroyed the cacao industry in Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad and Tobago achieved full independence in August 1962 within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its titular head of state.

In sympathy with the arrested leaders, a portion of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment, led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle mutinied and took hostages at the Teteron Barracks ( located on the Chaguaramas Peninsula ).

Trinidad and Tobago has remained cooperative with the United States in the regional fight against narcotics trafficking and on other issues.

The FBI recently opened an office in Trinidad and Tobago in connection with its hunt for Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah.

Most of the soils of Trinidad are fertile, with the exception of the sandy and unstable terrain found in the southern part of the island.

Trinidad & Tobago is an energy-rich country of the Caribbean with relatively strong institutions and political stability.

Trinidad is the larger island, with a business-oriented economy and the seat of the country's government and Piarco International Airport, the country's major airport.

Although it is called the Trinidad & Tobago Regiment, the TTR is in fact structured more like a light infantry brigade, with a pair of infantry battalions, plus engineering and logistic support units: