Geography of Trinidad and Tobago Geography of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic republic in the southern Caribbean between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela. They are southeasterly islands of the Lesser Antilles, Monos, Huevos, Gaspar Grande (or Gasparee), Little Tobago, and St. Giles Island. Trinidad is off the northeast coast of Venezuela and south of the Grenadines. The island measures in area (comprising 93.0% of the country's total area) with an average length of and an average width of . The island appears rectangular in shape with three projecting peninsular corners. Tobago is northeast of Trinidad
Gene Miles (activist) Gene Miles (activist) Gene Miles (1930 - December 8, 1972) was a political activist from Trinidad and Tobago. She is recognized for her testimony in the 1967 Commission of Enquiry into the corruption surrounding the granting of gas station licenses. Miles’ testimony resulted in the firing of the Senior Factory Inspector. She is considered to be a strong figure of the resistance to governmental corruption and the Commission at which she testified is seen as one of the most significant in the history of Trinidad and Tobago. Gene Miles was born in Port of Spain in 1930 to Ruby and