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Saint Mary's College, Trinidad And Tobago
St. Mary's College (CIC, which stands for College of the Immaculate Conception) is a government-assisted selective Catholic secondary school located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Notable alumni * Ellis Achong, West Indies Test cricketer * Emmanuel Amoroso, reproductive physiologist and developmental biologist * Eugene Chen (1878–1944), Trinidadian-Chinese politician and foreign minister of Republic of China * Ellis Clarke, first President of Trinidad and Tobago. * Diego Cisneros, businessman * Joshua Da Silva, West Indies Test cricketer * Leslie Fitzpatrick, soccer player * Angus Fraser (clergyman and teacher), founder of the Via Christi Society * Wayne A.I. Frederick, President of Howard University * Ken Gordon, businessman * Shaka Hislop, football player * Jillionaire, DJ and music producer * John La Rose, publisher and cultural activist * Clement Ligoure, physician and publisher * Michael Mooleedhar, filmmaker * Quintin O'Connor, union leader * George Padmore (1903� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port-of-Spain
Port of Spain ( ; Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian English: ''Port ah Spain'' ) is the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago. With a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), an urban population of 81,142 and a transient daily population of 250,000, it is Trinidad and Tobago's third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, San Fernando. Port of Spain is located on the Gulf of Paria, on the northwest coast of the island of Trinidad and is part of East–West Corridor, a larger conurbation stretching from Chaguaramas, Trinidad, Chaguaramas in the west to Arima in the east with an estimated population of 600,000. The city serves primarily as a retail and administrative centre and it has been the capital of the island since 1757. It is also an important financial services centre for the Caribbean [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaka Hislop
Neil Shaka Hislop CM (born 22 February 1969) is a football commentator and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Born in England, he played for them at under-21 level before representing Trinidad and Tobago at senior international level. Hislop spent majority of his playing career in the top division in England where he was a part of the Newcastle United team which finished second in the Premier League for two successive seasons under Kevin Keegan's first tenure. Before this, he played for Reading, where he was on the losing side in the First Division play-offs despite finishing second overall (the only occasion on which second place was not an automatic promotion position). He later played for West Ham United on two occasions (receiving an FA Cup runners-up medal during his second season in 2006) and also for Portsmouth (where he won the First Division in 2002/03). Hislop was eligible to play for both England and Trinidad and Tobago. He initially played for the Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1863
Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education also follows a structured approach but occurs outside the formal schooling system, while informal education involves unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are categorized into levels, including early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and tertiary education. Other classifications focus on teaching methods, such as teacher-centered and student-centered education, and on subjects, such as science education, language education, and physical education. Additionally, the term "education" can denote the mental states and qualities of educated individuals and the academic field studying educational phenomena. The precise definition of education is disputed, and there are disagreements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Schools In Trinidad And Tobago
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' (autonomous) churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies around the world, each overseen by one or more bishops. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles, and that the pope is the successor of Saint Peter, upon whom primac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Port Of Spain
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Young (politician)
Stuart Richard Young (born 9 February 1975) is a Trinidad and Tobago attorney and politician who served as the eighth List of prime ministers of Trinidad and Tobago, prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago between March and May 2025. As member of the People's National Movement (PNM), he has been a member of parliament (MP) in the House of Representatives (Trinidad and Tobago), House of Representatives for Port of Spain North/Saint Ann's West, Port-of-Spain North/St. Ann's West since 2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2015. He was the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister. On 6 January 2025, it was announced Young would be the presumptive nominee to succeed as prime minister in August 2025 when Keith Rowley intends to resign from representational politics. Young has previously held the posts of Minister of National Security, Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs and Minister of Communications. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Schachter
Harry Schachter FRSC (25 February 1933 – 17 April 2024) was a Canadian biochemist and glycobiologist. He was professor at the University of Toronto and at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto. Biography Harry Schachter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. His parents were Miriam Freund, a businesswoman, and Ulrich Schachter, a dentist and medical doctor. Harry's father was the cousin of Austro-Hungarian and Romanian tenor and actor, Joseph Schmidt. The Schachter family fled the Nazis in 1938, escaping to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He attended secondary school at Saint Mary's College. He came first in Trinidad in the Cambridge Advanced Level Examinations and won the Jerningham Gold Medal and the Island Scholarship in Mathematics. He also worked part-time as a reporter for the local Guardian newspaper. His family immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1951. Education and career At the University of Toronto, Schachter completed his BA in Physiology and Biochemistry in 1955, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford Roach
Clifford Archibald Roach (13 March 1904 – 16 April 1988) was a Trinidadian cricketer who played in West Indies' first Test match in 1928. Two years later, he scored the West Indies' first century in Test matches, followed two matches later by the team's first double century. Roach played for Trinidad, but before having any great success at first-class level, he was chosen to tour England with a West Indies team in 1928 and scored over 1,000 runs. When England played in the West Indies in 1930, he recorded his ground-breaking centuries but had intermittent success at Test level afterwards. He toured Australia in 1930–31 and returned to England in 1933, when he once more passed 1,000 runs, but was dropped from the team in 1935. Within three years, he lost his place in the Trinidad team. Roach was generally inconsistent, but batted in an attacking and attractive style. Outside of cricket, he worked as a solicitor. Later in his life, he suffered from diabetes which necessit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Lennox Pawan
Joseph Lennox Donation Pawan MBE (6 September 1887 – 3 November 1957) was a Trinidadian bacteriologist who was the first person to show that rabies could be spread by vampire bats to other animals and humans. Education and career Born in Trinidad, Pawan was educated at Saint Mary's College in Port of Spain and won an Island Scholarship in 1907. He then went on to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1912 with bachelor's degrees in medicine and surgery. After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Port of Spain, and later as the District Medical Officer in Tobago and Cedros, in southwestern Trinidad. In 1923 he was appointed as the sole bacteriologist to the government of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1925 there was an outbreak of rabies in cattle in Trinidad, which was first diagnosed as botulism. Humans began contracting rabies in 1929, first diagnosed as poliomyeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Padmore
George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author. He left his native Trinidad in 1924 to study medicine in the United States, where he also joined the Communist Party. From there he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was active in the party, and working on African independence movements. He also worked for the party in Germany but left after the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. In 1935, the official foreign policy of the USSR shifted, Britain and France, colonial powers with colonies in Africa, were now referred "democratic-imperialisms", a lower priority than the category of "fascist-imperialist" powers, Germany and Japan. This shift fell into direct contradiction with Padmore's prioritization of African independence, as Germany and Japan had no colonies in Africa. Padmore broke instantly with the Kremlin, but continued to support socialism ideologically.C. L. R. James, '' The Black Jacob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintin O'Connor
Quintin O'Connor (31 October 1908 – 3 November 1958) was a union leader, activist, and politician in colonial Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to the late 1950s. He played an essential role in the institutionalization of unionism in Trinidad and was an early proponent of Trinidadian independence. Personal life Quintin O'Connor was born on 31 October 1908 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Virginia and Henry O'Connor. Virginia was a homemaker and Henry was the manager of a firm of cocoa merchants. They had five children besides Quintin: Lucy, Phillip, Juan, Patrick and Willie. Along with his brothers, Quintin was among a small number of young men in Trinidad whose families could afford to provide them with a secondary education. He attended school at Saint Mary's College, though he left school without obtaining the Junior Cambridge Certificate. O'Connor married Lucy Daphne Piper on 31 July 1943. During their 15-year marriage, they had four children. Union career O'Connor, as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mooleedhar
Michael Mooleedhar (born 3 August 1985) is a Trinidadian director and producer whose work includes documentaries, music videos, and film. His first feature film, '' Green Days By The River'', opened the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2017. Winning People's Choice Award for best Feature Film Narrative and Best Trinidad and Tobago Feature Film 201 Mooleedhar’s directorial debut, ''Queens Of Curepe'' (2008), is a revealing documentary focusing on transsexual sex workers from Trinidad and Tobago and other territories in the Caribbean who work in the streets of Curepe, a town found along Trinidad and Tobago’s East-West Corridor."Transsexuals, Black Caribs and Bobo Shanti" ''Trinidad and Tobago Newsday'', 22 September 2008. Early life and education Michael Kenneth Mooleedhar was b ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
