Trinidad boasts a well-developed infrastructure, low energy costs, and strong industrial hubs like Point Lisas and La Brea. While the north is urbanized, the central region offers opportunities for agriculture and eco-tourism.
Trinidad’s reliance on hydrocarbons ensures a much more developed road infrastructure network than many of its island neighbors. It also has the third highest port capacity in the English speaking Caribbean, one of the lowest energy costs worldwide thanks to large natural gas reserves and government subsidies and fibre optic links across the island.
The Point Lisas Industrial Estate is a major industrial and heavy manufacturing center on the island with steel, petrochemicals and water desalination plants on site while electricity generation plants are also found in the south of the island, especially the La Brea Industrial Estate.
The northern third of the island is heavily built up with settlements following the highway running east-west, with Port of Spain, the capital city, at the western end and Arima at its eastern point. Much of the center of the island remains under-developed, however, leaving many opportunities for agriculture and agro-tourism, ecology and homestay visits.