The Urban Cries of Trinidad and Tobago

The urban area is usually associated with negative themes, such as homelessness, crime, abandoned animals, pollution, socio-economic inequality and others. Many urban areas of Trinidad and Tobago are unfortunately no strangers to these themes, especially the city of Port-of-Spain and other prominent towns of the country. However, if there are continuations of these negative themes or ‘Urban Cries’ as referred by myself, from these urban areas, the consequences are almost certain to be far-reaching in the future. These consequences are likely to affect every aspect of urban space such as the economy, politics, social and environment. Although these situations are humanly impossible to completely solve, there is need for integrated cooperation among the local state, private sector and community-residents to alleviate basic issues. Therefore, this blog would seek to highlight those issues that are seriously affecting urban areas, especially within the city of Port-of-Spain.