2020 in Trinidad and Tobago

Decades:

2000s
2010s
2020s

Events

19 January – The 2020 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement leadership election is won by Tracy Davidson-Celestine.
12 March – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in Trinidad and Tobago

10 August – The 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election was held to elect 41 members to the 12th Trinidad and Tobago Republican Parliament.^[1]

Deaths

14 March – Cecil Gray, Trinidadian-born Canadian poet (b. 1923).^[2]
16 April – Althea McNish, Trinidadian-British textile designer (b. 1924).^[3]
23 April – Joan Hackshaw-Marslin, Trinidadian politician (b. 1951)^[4]
8 June – Sedley Joseph, footballer (b. 1939).^[5]
4 July – James Lee Wah, 89, theatre promoter and educator.^[6]
15 September – Sheldon Gomes, 69, cricketer (North Trinidad, East Trinidad, national team).^[7]

References

↑ "EBC releases preliminary election results". CNC3. 12 August 2020. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
↑ Cecil Rodrick Gray
↑ Designer Althea McNish dies
↑ STAFF, AZP (2020-04-24). "PNM Stalwart Joan Hackshaw-Marslin Passes Away". AZP News. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
↑ "Local football Hall of Famer, Sedley Joseph, dies at 80". Archived from the original on 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
↑ Theatre icon James Lee Wah dies
↑ "Former T&T star Sheldon Gomes passes on". Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-18.

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2020 in the Caribbean

British West Indies
Danish West Indies
Dutch Caribbean
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Netherlands Antilles
French West Indies
West Indies Federation

West
Indies

Antilles

Greater
Antilles

Cayman Islands
Cuba
Jamaica
Navassa Island
Puerto Rico

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Dominica
Grenada
- Carriacou and Petite Martinique
Martinique
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan
Archipelago

Bahamas
Turks and Caicos Islands

Caribbean
Sea

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Bermuda^#
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories in italics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which ^*the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.

^†Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ^~Disputed territories administered by Colombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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