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The Merikins or Merikens[ 1][ 2] were formerly enslaved Africans who gained freedom, enlisted in the Corps of Colonial Marines, and fought for the British against the United States in the War of 1812. After their service in Bermuda, they established a community in the south of Trinidad between 1815–1816. The region was largely populated by ...
With Caribbean roots going back to Trinidad and Tobago, Destra Garcia values the tradition of her culture. Destra started by experimenting with Calypso as well as R&B and gospel. [11] Only until Destra became fond of Soca that she would find her passion and place. Soca originated in the Caribbean with Trinidadian roots.
JTA Supermarkets began as J. T. Allum and Company Limited, a dry goods store at 100 High Street, San Fernando which was established in 1943. The store was owned by John Thomas Allum and managed by Carlton K. Mack, a distant relative of Allum who had immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago from China. In 1955 Mack entered an arrangement to purchase ...
Born in Trinidad, Pawan was educated at Saint Mary's College in Port of Spain and won an Island Scholarship in 1907. He then went on to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1912 with bachelor's degrees in medicine and surgery. After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant ...
Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Pearl Primus was two years old when she moved with her parents, Edward Primus and Emily Jackson, to New York City in 1921. [2] [3] In 1940, Primus received her bachelor's degree from Hunter College [4] in biology and pre-medical science. As a graduate student in biology, she realized that her dreams of becoming ...
Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Indian-Trinidadians and Tobagonians are people of Indian origin who are nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, whose ancestors came from India and the wider subcontinent beginning in 1845 during the period of colonization. Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians are a subgroup of Indo-Caribbeans, which is a subgroup of ...
White Trinidadians and Tobagonians (sometimes referred as Euro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or local-whites) are Trinidadians of European descent. However, while the term "White Trinidadian" is used to refer collectively to all Caucasians who are Trinidadian, whether by birth or naturalization, the term "local-white" is used to refer more specifically to Trinidad-born Caucasians and, in ...
Trinidad and Tobago has a unique history and its food is influenced by Indian - South Asian, West African, Creole, European, American, Chinese, Amerindian, and Latin American culinary styles. Trinidadian and Tobagonian food is dominated by a wide selection of dishes, most notably, doubles, roti, pelau, callaloo and curried crab and dumplings.