Trinidad and Tobago

Abstract

Trinidad and Tobago, the second-most-populous English speaking Caribbean nation after Jamaica, is located in the southeast Caribbean, just seven miles from Venezuela at its closest point (see Figure 1). The countrys population is largely of African and East Indian descent, each comprising about 35% of the total, with the remainder including those of mixed descent and other ethnic groups. In 1962, the country became one of the first British colonies in the Caribbean to attain independence, and it retained the parliamentary political system that it inherited from the United Kingdom. Although Trinidad and Tobago traditionally has had a stable political system, the government withstood a coup attempt in 1990 by a radical Islamic sect, the Afro-Trinidadian-based Jamaat al Muslimeen, which held the prime minister and members of parliament hostage for five days.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 26, 2018
Accession Number
AD1171915

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  • Mark P. Sullivan

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  • Library of Congress

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Crime
  • Department Of State
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Foreign Aid
  • Gases
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Education
  • Natural Gas
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

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