Built in 1831 under the governance of Governor Sir Lewis Grant, the Treasury building housed both the Treasury and the…

The St. Patrick’s Anglican Church in Mt. Pleasant, Tobago, was noted to have been built by the labour of enslaved…

Led by Daaga (Donald Stewart) in 1837, the mutiny in St. Joseph saw members of the 1st West India Regiment…

Resistance to enslavement through marronage (leaving the estates to live independently) and revolts were common in Tobago especially from 1770…

Nielson or Nelson Island is one of the Five Islands located approximately two miles off the north-western coast of Trinidad.…

In 1804, Sir Thomas Hislop, Governor of Trinidad, commissioned the construction of Fort George or La Vigie in St James…

At the entrance of the East Dry River in Port of Spain, near the Riverside Plaza, is a sign within…

From 1815 to the 1820s, the area along Moruga Road and environs in south Trinidad became the home to over seven hundred formerly enslaved African- Americans and ex-soldiers of the British Colonial Marines. The ex-soldiers had fought in the War of 1812 in the United States and were granted their freedom and land on which to settle in virgin forest in south Trinidad. Known as the Merikins, an abbreviated version of the word “Americans,” they settled mainly in six Company Villages at a time when slavery was still practised.

The Orisha Shrine at Blue Basin, Diego Martin, like other shrines elsewhere, is a testament to the strength of belief…