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Government Campus Plaza

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Government Campus Plaza
Government Campus Plaza

The Government Campus Plaza is a government complex on Richmond Street and Wrightson Road in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Completed in May 2017, the Government Campus Plaza provides public access to the services of four major government ministries and agencies. Across from the POS International Waterfront Centre on Wrightson Road on a 1,154,000 sq ft (107,200 m2) quadrangular piazza, the Government Campus Plaza provides office accommodation, parking, and a public plaza with manicured gardens and entertainment space. In the plaza, just below the outdoor 40 ft × 70 ft (12 m × 21 m) screen mounted on one of the plaza's two 23-storey towers, is an outdoor performance area for cultural festivals and performances.

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Government Campus Plaza
Richmond Street, Port of Spain Downtown

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N 10.6521 ° E -61.514 °
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Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs

Richmond Street
150123 Port of Spain, Downtown
Trinidad and Tobago
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Eric Williams Plaza
Eric Williams Plaza

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Fort San Andres
Fort San Andres

Fort San Andres is the last surviving fortification from the period of the Spanish Occupation of Trinidad, which came to an end in 1797 with the capture of the island by the British. As early as 1733, a fortification called Fort San Andres was planned to replace a redoubt of fascines and earth, which was the only defense to Port of Spain. This however was not completed until 1787. The redoubt was located more or less where Royal Bank now stands. Port of Spain or as it was known to the Spanish, Puerto de los Hispanioles, initially was restricted to a few streets east of the St. Ann's or Tragarete River which at that time ran west along what is now Park Street and south to the foreshore through what is now Woodford Square and Chacon Street. St. Ann's River, now better known as the Dry River, was diverted to its present course by the Spanish Governor Chacón and completed in 1787. The new fort was constructed as a mole linked to the mainland by a wooden bridge. The fort mounted five cannon and was "useful in maintaining good order among shipping anchored off-shore". In 1845, the Port of Spain Town council approved the filling of the Port of Spain waterfront to the northern side of Fort San Andres. Late in the nineteenth century the shoreline was again filled to its present line, completely land-locking the Fort. The Fort fell into disuse and later a structure was built on the old fort to house the Harbour Master and various other government offices, including the Police Service Traffic Branch. In 1995 the building was restored and converted to a museum of the City of Port of Spain. Several of the original cannons survive and the foundations bear the date 1785.