Benet Thomas

Benet Thomas

Benet is a retired Civil Engineer and has many years of experience as a sportsman. He has taken part in many shooting events representing the West Indies in the United Kingdom and Canada. He has also represented Trinidad in Australia.

Benet is the first West Indian to have the Caribbean championship three consecutive years. He migrated to the US in the 1990’s and has now returned to Trinidad to assist in the struggle to make Trinidad and Tobago a better place to live.

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