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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

Timeline of Events

1962

8.31.1962

Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.

9.18.1962

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

1990

7.27.1990

The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a ''coup d'état'' in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.