Fyzabad
Fyzabad is a town in southwestern Trinidad, south of San Fernando, west of Siparia and northeast of Point Fortin. It is named after the town of Faizabad in India.
History
Fyzabad was founded by Rev. Kenneth J. Grant, a Presbyterian missionary in Trinidad in 1871. The purpose of the settlement was to separate Christian Indians from the unconverted Hindu and Muslim populations. The town later grew with the discovery of oil in the area in 1917, and attracted a large number of immigrants from Grenada and other Lesser Antillean islands. In 1937 Fyzabad was the centre of labour unrest, led by T.U.B. Butler which is considered the birth of the Labour movement in Trinidad and Tobago.Politics
Fyzabad is part of the Fyzabad parliamentary constituency for elections to the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago.Notable people
- Ronnie Boodoosingh, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago
- Tubal Uriah Butler, preacher and union leader
- Anthony Carmona, fifth president of Trinidad and Tobago
- Michael Fisher, physicist
- Billy Ocean, British R&B and pop singer, born Leslie Charles
- Lennox Superville, Trinidadian-American professor, mathematician, and engineer