Between 1940 and 1956 much of Cumuto was part of the American army base known either as Fort Read or Wallerfield; the area was leased to the United States as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
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Cumuto is the site of the Aripo Savannas Scientific Reserve, an area which contains one of the last remaining areas of natural savanna in Trinidad and Tobago.
At the height of World War II, he graduated from St. Mary's College and took up a job at the American base at Cumuto where he worked for two years before deciding to join his father's printery in Port of Spain.
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