🇹🇹📚 500 Years in Trinidad & Tobago – From Banwari to Capuchin Crossroads Trinidad’s story didn’t begin with Columbus. It began with the Banwari — fishing, farming, and building communities in Oropouche thousands of years ago. By 1498, there were over 40,000 Amerindians across 11 tribes. They painted their bodies red, wore eagle-shaped gold, and bartered with tribes along the Orinoco. But after Spanish conquest, missions replaced villages. Capuchin priests from Catalonia and Aragon set up post

🇹🇹🌍 Trinidad and Tobago’s Diversity – The World in Two Islands Trinidad and Tobago’s diversity began long before independence. The first settlers were Arawakan and Cariban peoples from South America. Centuries later, Spanish, French, and British colonizers layered their cultures atop an Amerindian base. Africans brought during the transatlantic labor system shaped the islands’ rhythm and language. After 1834 emancipation, British planters imported workers from India under indenture between 18