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Eric Williams Plaza, also known as the Eric Williams Financial Complex, located on Independence Square, Port of Spain, consists of two of the tallest buildings in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in the English-speaking Caribbean. It consists of a pair of skyscrapers 22 stories high and 302 ft (92 m) tall, locally known as the "Twin Towers".
Turks and Caicos Islands. After years of ski vacations, designer Ainsley Hayes and her family decided to buy a second home in Turks and Caicos. “It has a relaxed island lifestyle but also offers ...
His eldest son, Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet (1749–1815), was the Governor of Tobago from 1807-1815 as well as serving as a Member of Parliament. [12] Sir William purchased some of the best pieces of real estate on Antigua, St Vincent, and Tobago. [8]
Name Location (Region/municipality) Caigual: Sangre Grande region: Calcutta Settlement: Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo: Calder Hall: Tobago: California: Couva–Tabaquite–Talparo
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
CIBC Caribbean is a financial services company ... a company run by Colombian banker and real estate ... CIBC takes control - March 20, 2006: Trinidad and Tobago ...
In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This is an expanse (mostly of ocean) which measures about 1,000 miles (1,600 ...
Tobago was named Belaforme by Christopher Columbus "because from a distance it seemed beautiful". The Spanish friar Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa wrote that the Kalina (mainland Caribs) called the island Urupina because of its resemblance to a big snail, [4]: 84–85 while the Kalinago (Island Caribs) called it Aloubaéra, supposedly because it resembled the alloüebéra, a giant snake which ...