Happy 38th Republic Day to Trinidad & Tobago!
Bunji Garlin - Find Me In Trinidad (2014 T&T Soca)https://www.youtube.com/v/sJnXigBWWmUTRINIDAD AND TOBAGO REPUBLIC DAYTrinidad and Tobago became a Republic on August 1st, 1976 which is also Emancipation Day. However the event is celebrated as a public holiday on September 24th every year because this is the date when the first Parliament met under the new Republican Constitution.
The date was removed from the official calendar of holidays between 1999 and 2001 to make way for the Spiritual Baptist (Shouter) Liberation Day which is celebrated on March 30th but was reinstated as an official T&T public holiday again in 2002.
Republic Day is normally celebrated with a parade and other festivities, including dances and feasts. The Royal Oak Derby, Trinidad and Tobago's most important horse race, is normally run on this day as well. The nation's president always gives a speech stressing that being a republic means all citizens are to assume responsibility for their own actions as the price of freedom, etc.
DEFINITION OF A REPUBLICRepublic [noun]: A state or nation in which the supreme power rests in all the citizens entitled to vote (the electorate), and is exercised by representatives elected, directly or indirectly, by them, and responsible to them.
What is the meaning of Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago?The meaning of Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago is that Republic Day is the day we (in Trinidad and Tobago) cut all colonial ties with England.
When we gained independence, there was still a governor representing the queen but when we gained republic status we cut all ties with the UK and appointed our own President who is our official head of state that is higher than our Prime Minister.