My sweet Island Trinidad & Tobago
If u didn’t know... here is a chance too find out about our sweet Island
Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🔴⚪⚫
I've seen a lot of rant videos about this USMNT loss. I laughed at some of the hurt, but most of all I shook my head and was disgusted by some of the ignorance.
No, we don't run around barefoot all the time. No, we don't play football with watermelons. Yes, people have plumbing and electricity. Yes, people have eaten since f'n Christmas.
The underdog may not win all the time, but they DO win sometimes and in those cases it should be respected.
We're a happy, talented, intelligent, creative, diverse, resourceful, beautiful, funny, determined group of people. That's what you should know.
Here are a few facts....educate yourselves...
- Trinidad and Tobago is one of the oldest hydrocarbon producers in the world, with commercial production dating as early as 1908. Trinidad and Tobago is also a major petrochemical hub and is the one of the world’s largest exporters of ammonia, ethanol and liquefied natural gas. The two largest methanol plants in the world are found in Trinidad.
- In the Americas, only the USA and Canada have a higher GDP per head than Trinidad and Tobago.
- Education in T&T is entirely free, contributing to the over 98% literacy rate. Children are expected to have basic reading and writing skills before starting school at age 5. Most start preschool at 2 ½ years of age.
- The novels “Robinson Crusoe” and “Treasure Island” were based on these islands, and the movie “Swiss Family Robinson” was filmed here.
- The limbo originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Trinidad and Tobago is the birthplace of calypso.
- The oldest rain forest reserve in the Western Hemisphere is located in Tobago.
- Trinidad and Tobago’s Dr Joseph Lennox Pawan achieved international acclaim for the discovery of the transmission of the rabies virus by vampire bats.
- Trinidad and Tobago-born Stokley Carmichael (also known as Kwame Ture) was a member of the United States Civil Rights Movement who rose to prominence as the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party. He popularized the term “black power” as a social and political slogan.
- The Steelpan: The only new acoustic instrument to be invented and accepted worldwide in the 20th century originated in Trinidad and Tobago.
- The Pitch Lake in South Trinidad is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world.
- World acclaimed artist and Carnival Designer, Peter Minshall helped design the opening awards ceremonies for the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the 1994 Football World Cup and the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
- Miss Trinidad and Tobago 1977, Janelle Penny Commissiong, was the first black contestant to be crowned Miss Universe in the chronology of the Miss Universe Competition.
- Trinidad and Tobago’s Brian Charles Lara holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings (400 not out against England, Antigua 2004). He is also the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.
- CNN listed the Trinidadian accent as one of the sexiest in the world. In the same year, a poll released by Gallup ranked Trinis the fifth most positive people in the world!
Don't even get me started on Carnival.......
