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- Benjamin- Richard I recently heard about the Sugar Industry in Trinidad can you tell me about it?
- Richard- Sure Benjamin
- Richard- First we have to start with the sugar cane plant. The history of the sugar cane plant goes as far back as 1425, when the sugar cane plant was introduced....
- to the Portuguese Henry the Navigator. It was Christpher Columbus who stopped off on the Cannery Islands and his second voyage to the new world who brought the sugar cane plant to......
- the Caribbean's and Americans, it was in the 17th century that the Dutch brought the sugar cane plant to Tobago.
- Now there were to special men who came to Trinidad and bringing goods. St. Hilarie Begorat Picot De La PeyRouse. 
-  Richard- The beginning of the sugar Industry in Trinidad and Tobago. It was the Spanish settlers who came to Trinidad that brought the sugar cane with them in 1542. They used it for sweetening teas and so forth....
- Picot De La PeyRouse was another French man who was important to the history of the Sugar Industry in Trinidad, because he was responsible for building the first sugar Mill....
- Richard- St. Hilarie Begorat was a French man who came to Trinidad in 1782; this was he Otaheite Sugar cane. This sugar cane plant was so successful in Trinidad that the sugar Industry started in P.O.S.
- Trinidad saw the development of the development of the sugar Industries such as Hadeline in Princess Town and Brechin Castle in Cova by 1937.
- By 1799 Trinidad was producing sugar to be sold. Trinidad was no experiencing a successful Sugar Industry, but Tobago saw a decline in the sugar Industry in 1890. This was because the British firm was responsible for the development and was now on a decline.
- Benjamin- Thank Richard for that informative explanation.
- Richard- And that was the explanation on the Sugar Industry
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