Beetham Estate Gardens
Beetham Estate Gardens is a neighbourhood in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Beetham Estate Gardens is a neighbourhood in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located south of Laventille and northeast of Sea Lots. It is bordered from west to east by the Beetham Highway and the Eastern Main Road and falls under the administration of Trinidad's capital city, Port- of- Spain. Formerly, a slum called "rat town", the community has evolved as a residential area but is still rife with systemic violence and is a clear example of environmental discrimination. In 2008–9 the government, under the leadership of the late Patrick Manning, built a 1.20-meter-high (3.9 ft) wall around the area in preparation for the 5th Summit of the Americas.
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Worth seeing in and around Beetham Estate Gardens
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01The Red House
The Red House is the seat of Parliament in Trinidad and Tobago. The architectural design of the Red House is of Beaux-Arts style.
1.7 km · Government building · Wikipedia - 02House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the elected lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, along with the President and Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. The House of Representatives sits at the Red House.
1.8 km · lower house of Trinidad and Tobago · Wikipedia - 03National Library and Information System
The National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago is a corporate body established by the NALIS Act No. 18 of 1998 to administer the development and coordination of library and information services in Trinidad and Tobago.
1.7 km · national library of Trinidad and Tobago · Wikipedia - 04Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Library of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean was established in 1948 as part of the creation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; this coincided with the inauguration of the Economic Commission for Latin America by the United Nations, in support of its mandate in the region. The Library has four branches: the Hernán Santa Cruz Library in Santiago, the Centro de Recursos de Información y Distribución de Documentos in Mexico City, the Raúl Prebisch Library in Brasília and the Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre in Port of Spain.
2.5 km · Library at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean · Wikipedia - 05College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago
The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago is a public, multi-campus college in Trinidad and Tobago, established in 2000.
2.6 km · university · Wikipedia - 06Memorial Park, Port of Spain
Memorial Park is an urban park in upper Downtown, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Memorial Park is a public city park in commemoration of the Trinidadian veterans that served in World War I and World War II. It is one of the most visited urban parks in the city.
2.4 km · park in Trinidad and Tobago · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Beetham Estate Gardens
- Airports
- Piarco (POS), 18 km · A.N.R. Robinson (TAB), 92 km · Maurice Bishop (GND), 154 km
- Stations
- Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, 3.8 km · Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, 3.2 km · Emperor Valley Zoo, 3.9 km · Fort San Andres, 1.4 km · Belmont, 2.8 km
- Scarborough → Beetham Estate GardensTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Saint George's → Beetham Estate GardensTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Barcelona → Beetham Estate GardensTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beetham Estate Gardens
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Beetham Estate Gardens. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWhen the coach is not running and you aren't carrying massive luggage, you can take a local taxi with a licence plate starting with H at the taxi rank (100 metres to the right of the arrival hall exit) towards what's called "The Junction" and, there, hail a frequently running red-white minivan (Maxi Taxi), which also will drop you off at City Gate (South Quay bus terminal).
- Get inThe taxi is TT$5, although you'll have to wait for the vehicle to fill up with 4 passengers (which does not take long), and the minivan is US$7 — altogether considerably cheaper than the US$30 for the authorized airport taxi.
- Get inThere is a Wednesday ferry from Venezuela.
- Get inFrom Scarborough, Tobago there are hydrofoils that take 2½ hours and conventional ferries that take 5½ hours to Port of Spain.
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Next door to Beetham Estate Gardens
- LaventilleWard of Trinidad1.7 km
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