33.2 UPTOWN PORT OF SPAIN

For this purpose Uptown is defined as the district of Port of Spain bounded on the north by the Queen’s Park Savannah, to the south by Tragarete Road and Park Street, on the West by Cipriani Boulevard and Colville Street and to the East by Charlotte Street.

The district of Uptown enjoys a number of listed projects by the National Trust including the Lapeyrouse Cemetery, once a thriving sugar estate owned by Picot de la Peyrouse. Uptown also enjoys three important squares: Memorial, Mahatna Ghandi and Lord Harris. A unique feature of the Uptown district is the diversity of urban uses that include a jail, a tennis club, auditoria, theatre, hospital, clinics, offices, commercial businesses, schools, residential homes, apartments and churches.