2024 in Trinidad and Tobago

Events in the year 2024 in Trinidad and Tobago.

Incumbents

• President: Christine Kangaloo
• Prime Minister: Keith Rowley
• Chief Justice: Ivor Archie
• Leader of the Opposition: Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Events

• 17 January – Three people are killed and five others injured during a mass shooting against a group of men outdoors in Morvant.
• 7 February – A ship known as MV Gulfstream capsizes off the coast of Tobago, producing an oil spill that affects 15 kilometers of the island's coastline and prompting the declaration of a national emergency.
• 28 February – Oil begins to wash ashore on Bonaire, Leeward Antilles, believed to have originated from ship Gulfstream with around 35,000 barrels of oil on board that capsized near Tobago earlier in February.

Holidays

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• 1 January - New Year's Day
• 12–13 February – Carnival
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 30 March – Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day
• 1 April - Easter Monday
• 10 April – Eid al-Fitr
• 30 May - Corpus Christi
• 30 May - Indian Arrival Day
• 19 June – Labour Day
• 1 August – Emancipation Day
• 31 August – Independence Day
• 24 September - Republic Day
• 1 November – Diwali
• 25 December – Christmas Day
• 26 December – Boxing Day

Sports

• Trinidad and Tobago at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Deaths

• 1 January – Basdeo Panday, 90, politician, prime minister (1995–2001).

See also

• 2020s
• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2024 in the Caribbean

References

External links

• Online calendar