
Quick Facts
- Population- 1.3 Million
- Religion – Roman Catholic Christians 21.5 %, Anglicans 5.7% , Presbyterians 3%, Methodists .1%, Evangelicals, Pentecostals 12%, Hindus 18%, Muslims 5%, Shouter Baptists 1.2%, Orishas .2% Jehovah’s Witnesses 1.5%
- Education- FREE from Nursery to Tertiary – 98% literacy
- GDP- Only USA and Canada have higher GDP than Trinidad and Tobago in the Americas
- One of the oldest Hydrocarbon producers in the world since 1908 with the largest Methanol plant in the world.
- Birth Place of Limbo, Calypso and the Steel band, which is recognised as the only acoustic instrument invented in the 20th Century.
- Land of the Hummingbird
- The Pitch Lake in South Trinidad is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world
- Tobago has the oldest Forest Reserve in the Western Hemisphere
- World Class beauties-
- Miss Universe 1977
- Janelle Penny Commissiong – First black Queen.
- Miss Universe 1998 – Wendy Fitzwilliams
- Miss World 1986 – Giselle La Ronde
- Miss Universe 1977
- World Class Sports
- Cricket
- Brian Lara – Judged one of the world’s best cricketers of all times- World record holder – Highest individual score in a test innings (400 not out vs.. England ) . One batsman to have scored a 100, a double century, a triple century and a quadruple century, a quintuple century in first class games over his career.
- Football (many others have graced the words biggest stage)
- Dwight Yorke – Tobago Born Footballer – Aston Villa, Manchester United
- World Cup qualifying team 2006
- Shaka Hislop
- Stern John
- Russell Latapy
- Olympic Winners (example of a few of our many heroes)
- Keshon Walcott – Gold Javelin
- George Bovell – Silver 50 meters Swimming
- 4x4 Track & Field Gold
- Ato Bolden Silver– 100 meters
- Hasely Crawford Gold – 100 meters
- World Cup 2006 Qualifier
- Cricket
- Voted in a CNN poll as one of the sexiest accents in the world.
- Gallup poll ranked as the 5th most positive people in the world
- One of only 2 nesting sites of the oldest creatures on earth- the Leather backed Turtles – 25 millions years on the planet.
- World's largest Brain Coral grows in Speyside Tobago