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Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago was designed by a committee formed in 1962 to select the symbols that would be representative of the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The committee included T. C. Cambridge (chair), Carlisle Chang, J. A. Bullbrook, J. Newel Lewis, Peter Bynoe, Andrew T. Carr, Alston Huggings, Harry Dow, Daniel J. Samaroo, Conrad E. O’Brian, George Bailey, Felix Frederick, Enos Sewlal, Sybil Atteck, Margaret Emily Ottley, Badroul Armstrong, with M.P. Alladin as secretary.

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This entry incorporates text from “Coat of arms of Trinidad and Tobago” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.