Laventille
Proper noun
Meaning
Laventille
A community in Trinidad and Tobago, known for poverty and crime.
Examples
In 1803 Port of Spain began growing southwards, with the reclamation of the foreshore mudflats, using fill from the Laventille Hills.
A 43-year-old Carapichaima man was found shot dead and stuffed into the trunk of his silver-coloured Nissan Tiida in Laventille yesterday.
Police are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old student of the Success Laventille Secondary School on Friday night.
Noble: The blackest thing in Laventille; how decades of neglect shaped a ‘hot spot’
Photo: A young man takes a walk in Laventille.