Events Trinidad and Tobago
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1 January.
New Year Day.
7-8 February 2005
Trinidad Carnaval It is considered the most fantastic in the whole Caribbean.
April.
Good Friday and Easter.
1 June.
Labour Day.
June.
Pentecost.
July
Tobago Heritage Festival with traditional dances, crab and goat races.
31 August.
Independence Day.
September.
Hossein, great Muslim autumn feast whose date varies based on the Muslim calendar. For three days, processions, singing, dancing, fighting, tadjah presentations (miniature models of mosques).
October.
Eid-ul-Fitr, Muslim celebration.
October-November (date varies)
Divali, Hindu feast of Lights at Trinidad. All homes and gardens of believers are lit in a spectacular manner. Over the same period, at Manzanilla on the Atlantic coast of Trinidad, the Katik-Nannan, feast of purification where the Hindus bathe in the ocean.
25 December.
Christmas.