Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962. The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847. The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851. Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps
Russia–Trinidad and Tobago relations Russia–Trinidad and Tobago relations Russia–Trinidad and Tobago relations are the bilateral relations between the Russian Federation and Trinidad and Tobago. Diplomatic relations were established on June 6, 1974. Russia is represented in Trinidad and Tobago through a non-resident embassy in Georgetown, Guyana. Premier of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev sent a telegram to Eric Williams, the incoming Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, on 30 August 1962 recognising the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom. In the same telegram, which was sent only hours before the formal independence from the United Kingdom, the Soviet Premier also expressed