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"the New York of the Caribbean"

Has anyone actually heard this term used, or is it just another one of these things the guide books make up?

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/caribbean/trinidad_and_tobago/attractions.htm

"The pulse of the city is Independence Square ... "the New York of the Caribbean" because of its active nightlife and vibrant cultural scence." This paragraph is copied verbatim from the above site.

I also concerned about the image - it even has a watermark from http://www.triniting.com/

Guettarda 20:49, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Page name 2 Hyphens 3 Artists rendition of the new Queen's Park Savannah facilities 4 Revert to Hyphens 5 Slavery 6 new york of the caribbean

[edit] Page name

I have proposed that the page be moved to Port-of-Spain in accordance with Wikipedia naming conventions. Guettarda 17:02, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hyphens

Could you please decide unambigously whether the hyphens are needed or not? I mean, the title should agree with the article text consistently. Adam78 03:03, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Hyphens were recently removed from the article. Both are common - I believe that the hyphenated form is more correct. Guettarda 03:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. There's even discrepancies on POS' website. http://www.cityofportofspain.org.tt/ CaribDigita 22:47, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

As User:Nicholas Laughlin pointed out in his edits to the PoS article a while ago, Port of Spain is more common usage, while Port-of-Spain is a bit archaic (although still widely used). Although I undid his changes for consistency, the more I thought about it the more I felt he was right. So after thinking about it for a while, I decided to be bold. If people feel it's a bad idea - well, that's what rollback and the AutoWikiBrowser are made for ;) Guettarda 23:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I'll believe you. :) Adam78 00:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artists rendition of the new Queen's Park Savannah facilities

I thought this link was too good to pass up. Especially for future article expansion. The link has an artists' rendition of the new Grand/North stand replacement to be built down the Queen's Park Savannah. [1] Although it's copyright it's better to have something-- as backup until something can be found in public domain. CaribDigita 01:41, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Although it's on the Express website, my assumption is that the drawing would be copyright of the architect, so I suspect that a good argument could be made for fair use. Guettarda 04:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Revert to Hyphens

Why? Not for any reason really, except that T-N-T's capital is not Spain's Port, which is what "Port of Spain" implies. It is instead Port-of-Spain...Ishango 20:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slavery

I find the lack of reference to slavery quite odd.

[edit] new york of the caribbean

Trinidadians do not commonly use it to describe their city. I've heard it used by people from our small island neighbours up north. Port of Spain is too plauged with problems for Trinidadians to even compare ourselves with this US city. However, in some aspects such as shoppingk and business it is partially true.

• Never heard of "NYC of the Caribbean" here. However, I did see the Washington Times did have an article saying the "Hong Kong of the Caribbean" though. CaribDigita (talk) 00:55, 19 November 2007 (UTC)