Trinidad was originally called Kairi which is Kalinago for “Land of the Hummingbirds”

KAIRI THE ABORIGINALS

Trinidad, once called ‘Kairi’ (or possibly ‘Iere’) was aboriginally inhabited by many groups of Amerindian peoples who populated the Caribbean and South American region.

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Peter Minshall and his costume the Hummingbird performed bySherry-Ann Guy (Coelho) 1974