who is the first governor general of trinidad and tobago
Solomon Hochoy Sir Solomon Hochoy GCMG GCVO OBE (20 April 1905 â€“ 15 November 1983) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He was the last British governor of Trinidad and Tobago and the first governor-general upon the country's independence in 1962. He was the first non-white governor of a British crown colony and the first ethnically Chinese and nationally Caribbean person to become governor-general in the Commonwealth.
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (/ˈtrɪnɪdæd ... təˈbeɪɡoʊ/ ( listen), /toʊ-/),[14] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean. It is situated 130 kilometres (81 miles) south of Grenada off the northern edge of the South American mainland, 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) off the coast of northeastern Venezuela. It shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast, Grenada to the northwest, Guyana to the southeast, and Venezuela to the south and west.[15][16]