";s:4:"text";s:5300:"The creole language is popular among the masses of the island and is used extensively in everyday communication. Kirk, P.M., Cannon, P.F., Minter, D.W. and Stalpers, J. The language is closer to Lesser Antillean creoles. Fixed Lines Telephone service is provided by The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has recognised the creative industries as a pathway to economic growth and development. Tourism and the public service are the mainstay of the economy of Tobago, though authorities have attempted to diversify the island's economy.Trinidad and Tobago is situated between 10° 2' and 11° 12' N The terrain of the islands is a mixture of mountains and plains.The majority of the population reside on the island of Trinidad, and this is thus the location of largest The Northern Range consists mainly of Upper Jurassic and Record temperatures for Trinidad and Tobago are 39 °C (102 °F)Because Trinidad and Tobago lies on the continental shelf of South America, and in ancient times were physically connected to the South American mainland, its biological diversity is unlike that of most other Caribbean islands, and has much more in common with that of Information about vertebrates is good, with 472 bird species (2 endemics), about 100 mammals, about 90 reptiles (a few endemics), about 30 amphibians (including several endemics), 50 freshwater fish and at least 950 marine fish.Trinidad and Tobago is noted particularly for its large number of bird species, and is a popular destination for Information about invertebrates is dispersed and very incomplete.
Conditions on the islands worsened in the 1930s with the onset of the Petroleum had been discovered in 1857, but became economically significant only in the 1930s and afterwards as a result of the collapse of sugarcane and cocoa, and increasing industrialisation.In the post-war period the British began a process of decolonisation across the British Empire. International voice services was next in line, generating TT$0.27 billion (4.7 percent) in revenues. This corresponds in a rise from 595 to 683 in the number of researchers (head counts) per million inhabitants.Scientific output grew between 2007 and 2011, according to Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded) before contracting over the period 2012–2014.