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Belmont, in north-east Port of Spain, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is located at the foot of the Laventille Hills; it was the city's first suburb.In the 1840s–'50s, parts of the area were settled by Africans rescued by the Royal Navy from illegal slaving ships.
In 2012, the government of Trinidad and Tobago approved the introduction of postal codes starting later that same year. In addition to the postal code implementation the country has embarked on a nationwide address improvement initiative adopting the Universal Postal Union (UPU) S-42 international standard of addressing.
Port of Spain, officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital city of Trinidad and Tobago. With a municipal population of 49,867 (2017), [ 2 ] an urban population of 81,142 and a transient daily population of 250,000, [ 5 ] it is Trinidad and Tobago's third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando .
Saint George was divided into Saint George East, Saint George West, the City of Port of Spain and the Royal Chartered Borough of Arima. The Borough (City after 1988) of San Fernando was separated from County Victoria. After 1980 the Republic Borough of Point Fortin was separated from County Saint Patrick.
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
The Lady Young Road is a major roadway in Trinidad and Tobago linking the Eastern Main Road in Barataria to the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain. It is also an important connector between the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and uptown Port of Spain. The Lady Young Road runs through Morvant and crosses the foothills of the Northern Range.
St. Dominic's Children's Home, formerly Belmont Orphanage, is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. [1] It was established by French priest Mariano Forestier in 1871 [ 2 ] and expanded with additional buildings in subsequent years. [ 3 ]
St. James, 1857 (drawing by Michel-Jean Cazabon). St. James became part of the city of Port of Spain in 1938. [1] Until 1992, the Civil Aviation Training Centre (CATC), now a unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority, was located along Long Circular Road in St. James. [2]