USA

USA - Is officially known as The United States of America. It is also sometimes known as U.S., USA, United States, Good Ole U.S. of A. and America . The USA is a North American country and located in central North America, between the North Pacific Ocean and North Atlantic Ocean, sharing borders with Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the North American continent, sharing borders with Canada to its east and Russia by way of the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is in the mid-North Pacific. The United States also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
The indigenous peoples of the U.S. mainland, including Alaska Natives, are thought to have migrated from Asia. They began arriving at least 12,000 and possibly as many as 40,000 years ago. Some, such as the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. After Europeans began settling the Americas, many millions of indigenous Americans died from epidemics of imported diseases such as smallpox.
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. The economy is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 Gross Domestic Product. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and other industrial corporations. President Barack Obama has announced his intention to support an additional $825 billion fiscal stimulus package - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover.

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago - Is officially known as The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago is North American two-island nation located in the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, separated from Venezuela by the Gulf of Paria and the Columbus Channel. It also shares maritime boundaries with Barbados and Guyana. First colonized by the Spanish, the islands came under British control in the early 19th century. The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. Manpower was replaced with the importation of contract laborers from India between 1845 and 1917, which boosted sugar production as well as the cocoa industry. The discovery of oil on Trinidad in 1910 added another important export. Trinidad and Tobago gained their Independence in 1962.
Tobago is often referred to as "the jewel of the Caribbean" and contains a few resort areas, Trinidad and Tobago as a whole does not rely heavily on tourism as a source of revenue. The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Trinidad and Tobago is the leading Caribbean producer of oil and gas, and its economy is heavily dependent upon these resources but it also supplies manufactured goods, notably food and beverages, as well as cement to the Caribbean region. Oil and gas account for about 40% of Gross Domestic Product.
Both Trinidad and Tobago were originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin. Trinidad was first settled by pre-agricultural Archaic people at least 7,000 years ago, making it the earliest-settled part of the Caribbean.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Is officially known as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a North American island nation in the Lesser Antilles chain of the Caribbean Sea west of Barbados. Its consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines. The Carib Indians inhabited St. Vincent before the Europeans arrived, and the island still sports a sizable number of Carib artifacts. Carib Indians aggressively prevented European settlement on St. Vincent until the 18th century. Enslaved Africans - whether shipwrecked or escaped from Barbados, St. Lucia and Grenada and seeking refuge in mainland St. Vincent, or Hairouna as it was originally named by the Caribs - intermarried with the Caribs and became known as Garifuna or Black Caribs. Explored by Columbus in 1498, and alternately claimed by Britain and France, St. Vincent became a British colony by the Treaty of Paris in 1763. In 1773, the island was divided between the Caribs and the British, but conflicts between the groups persisted. Disputed between France and the United Kingdom for most of the 18th century, the island was ceded to the latter in 1783. Autonomy was granted in 1969 and independence in 1979.
Success of the economy hinges upon seasonal variations in agriculture, tourism, and construction activity as well as remittance inflows. Much of the workforce is employed in banana production and tourism, but persistent high unemployment has prompted many to leave the islands. The Grenadines receives about 200,000 tourist arrivals annually mainly from the US.