Princes Town
Region
Princes Town is a city on the island of Trinidad. It is the seat of the administrative unit Princes Town and is located in the southwestern part of the island, about 50 kilometers by road south of the capital Port of Spain and about ten miles east of the coastal town of San Fernando. 2012 was after updating the population of 10,959.
History
Spanish monks of the Capuchin Order in 1687, built a mission station on the present area. The mission was called La Mission de Savana Grande. Around the station itself settlers established.
On March 5, 1859, a railway line from Kings Wharf, San Fernando, which had been built in 1817 as a shipyard and port, opened to the mission. The railway was to transport agricultural products of the southwest of Trinidad, which is referred to historically as the Naparimas, such as sugar cane to the port. By 1920, the railway line ran under the name Cipero Tram Road until it was acquired by Trinidad Government Railway. From 1884 the line was regularly for passengers, mostly plantation workers used.
The renaming of the place in Princes Town was carried out by an event on 17 January 1880. In San Fernando anchored the HMS Baccante, a battleship of the Royal Navy. The ship was in the years 1879 to 1882 on a three-year journey around the world aboard the Prince Albert Victor and George, later King Edward VII of the sons and grandsons of Queen Victoria. In a landfall each one gelbblühender catalpa ( Poui Tree ) was at the crossroads, the Walter Raleigh had happened on his trip in 1595 to the Río Caroní, in the yard of the Anglican Church of St. Stephen's of the two princes planted the genus Tabebuia. In honor of the two princes, the village was renamed. The trees are still standing.
In February 1884 recognized that became known under the name Canboulay Riots Riots of freed slaves and Princes Town. The British police had tried to stop carnival music with violence.
Policy
Princes Town is one of 41 constituencies in elections for the House of Representatives. In the elections of 24 May 2010 was chosen for Princes Town Nela Khan of the party United National Congress ( UNC).
Culture
In Princes Town, there was a movie theater, the Globe Cinema in the Railway Road, but that has not been opened (as of 2012). A public library is located in the High Street.
Traffic
There are buses and taxis. After about Mayaro San Fernando there are maxi taxis called mini buses. They are identifiable by a black stripe on the painting.
Education and health
In addition to several primary schools there are in Princes Town and secondary schools. The Anglican St Stephen 's College, named after Saint Stephen, was founded by the clergy Herbert Bindley -Taylor in 1943 and in 1958 officially recognized. West of the city is the Princes Town West Secondary School, which was called until 2009 Princes Town Senior Comprehensive and a building for the younger ( junior ) and one for the older (senior) has students. The football team of the Princes Town West Secondary School plays in the Secondary Schools Football League ( SSFL ).
Princes Town has with the Princes Town District Health Facility at the Circular Road with a hospital.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Joseph A. (Joe) Small ( 1892-1958 ), Cricketer, national team from 1928 to 1930
- Prior Jones (1917-1991), Cricketer, national team from 1947 to 1952
- Mighty Spoiler (1926-1960), actually Theophilus Philip, calypso singer
- Basdeo Panday ( born 1933), politician, 1995-2001 Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- Utrice suffering (* 1953), journalist
- Robin Sing ( b. 1963 ), cricketer, national players for India 1998-2001
- Andrei Pacheco ( born 1984 ), football player
- Shahdon Winchester ( * 1992), football player
Personalities who have worked on site
- Percy Cox ( b. 1878 on the Foster Hall Plantation, Saint Joseph, Barbados, † 1918 in Princes Town ), cricketers, national team from 1896 to 1906