Hasely Crawford is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion. He won the 200 metre title in 1976. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.
Hasely Crawford is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion. He won the 200 metre title in 1976. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.
Hasely Crawford is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion. He won the 200 metre title in 1976. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.
Hasely Crawford was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and
Tobago, one of the eleven children of Lionel and Phyllis Crawford, and began pursuing athletics at the age of 17. Hasely Crawford ran for Eastern Michigan University under coach Bob Parks during his college years. He is a six-time Trinidad and Tobago 100 metres champion, and won the 200 metre title in 1976. He debuted internationally in 1970, winning a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the Commonwealth Games. Only two years later, he surprisingly qualified for the 100 metres final of the Olympics in Munich, but pulled his hamstring after 20 metres and failed to finish. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001
Hasely Crawford Stadium
V.S. NAIPAUL
V.S. Naipaul was born on 17 August 1932 in the small
town of Chaguanas on Trinidad's Gulf of Paria seaboard, a scant ten miles south of the Northern Range. He was the second child and first son born to mother Droapatie and father Seepersad Naipaul. Naipaul is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all written in characteristic, widely admired, prose. In 2001, V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Sir V. S. Naipaul receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2001.
DWIGHT YORKE
Dwight Yorke, born 3 November 1971 in Canaan, Tobago,
is a Trinidad and Tobago former football player. He played for Aston Villa, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland. He was the assistant manager of the Trinidad and Tobago national team until the completion of the qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Along with Russell Latapy and Pat Jennings, Yorke holds
the record number of participations in different World Cup competitions, including qualifying stages six in total (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010). Yorke was nicknamed The Smiling Assassin because of his goal scoring abilities and his constant smile. A stadium named after Dwight Yorke was constructed for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship which was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago
DAVID RUDDER
David Rudder was born May 6, 1953 in Belmont, Trinidad.
David Rudder is one of the most successful calypsonians of all time.
In 1988 Rudder released what is widely considered his
best album to date, Haiti, which included the title track, a tribute to the glory and suffering of Haiti; "Engine Room", which captured the energy of the steel band; and "Rally 'Round the West Indies", which became the anthem of West Indies cricket. In 1986 he came to prominence on Andy Narell's album The Hammer, which produced two big hits: "The Hammer" (a tribute to the late pannist Rudolph Charles) and "Bahia Girl". This was followed in 1987 with "Calypso Music", a brilliant encapsulation of the history of calypso In 2008, Rudder did a Soca collaboration with fellow Trinidadian Machel Montano, "Oil and Music" on Machel's 2007 album Flame On. His musicis heard all over the world from Panama City Panama to New Dehil India.