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
• 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
• 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 

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