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THE Port of Spain City Council will begin making arrangements in September for the renaming of a section of Oxford Street to Kwame Ture Way. Port of Spain Mayor Chinua Alleyne told Newsday.

On August 1 – African Emancipation Day – Alleyne had announced the section of Oxford Street from Argyle Street to Charlotte Street would be renamed in honour of the pan-African revolutionary.

He also announced that the Christopher Columbus statue in the capital city would be removed and put in the National Museum. The statue was removed on August 6 and is now in the care of the National Trust.