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1766 Southeastern Caribbean earthquake. / 11.0; -62.5. Venezuela and Trinidad were struck by a major earthquake on 21 October 1766 at 4:30 in the morning local time in Cumaná, Venezuela (4:45 local time in Trinidad). It caused widespread damage from Caracas in the west to Georgetown, Guyana in the east.
Products. Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Number of employees. 1,400 (2004) Website. www .nationmedia .com. Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group listed based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV.
Venezuela, Trinidad: 6.5–7.5 M s: IX: Severe: 1692-06-07: Jamaica: 7.5 M w ~5,000: Tsunami: 1690-04-16: Antigua, Saint Kitts and Nevis: 8.0 M s: IX: Some: Destructive tsunami: Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles ...
A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Venezuela on Tuesday, August 21, with tremors from the quake damaging buildings in neighboring Trinidad and Tobago.Reuters reported there were no ...
The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup d'état attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990.Over the course of six days, Jamaat al Muslimeen, a radical extremist Islamist group, held hostages (including Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and other government officials) at the Red House and at the headquarters of the state-owned national ...
2020 Caribbean earthquake. / 19.419; -78.756. At 2:10 p.m. local time ( UTC-5) on 28 January 2020, an earthquake of 7.7 Mw struck on the north side of the Cayman Trough, north of Jamaica and west of the southern tip of Cuba, with the epicenter being 80 miles (130 km) ESE of Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands [4] or 83 miles (134 km) north of Montego ...
On Friday 24 August 1962, Trinidad and Tobago Television was launched one week before the two-island state of Trinidad and Tobago gained independence on 31 August 1962 within the Commonwealth of Nations. Mervyn Telfer, a former Radio Trinidad announcer, read the first broadcast, the 7.00 p.m. News. The two channels to transmit the service to ...
The economy of Trinidad and Tobago is the third wealthiest in the Caribbean and the fifth-richest by GDP (PPP) per capita in the Americas. [17] Trinidad and Tobago is recognised as a high-income economy by the World Bank. Unlike most of the English-speaking Caribbean, the country's economy is primarily industrial, [18] with an emphasis on ...