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The coun­cil of the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion plans to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to ad­vise on an ap­pro­pri­ate mon­u­ment to re­place the now-re­moved Christo­pher Colum­bus stat­ue and re­name the square on In­de­pen­dence Square that bore his name.

Speak­ing at the cor­po­ra­tion’s statu­to­ry meet­ing at City Hall on Knox Street yes­ter­day, May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne said an­oth­er com­mit­tee will be formed to ad­vise on re­nam­ing part of Ox­ford Street in ho­n­our of civ­il rights and Pan-African ac­tivist Kwame Ture.

“So that mem­bers of the gen­er­al pub­lic can ex­pect that in the month of Sep­tem­ber we should have those com­mit­tees es­tab­lished, and there­after, we will be able to re­port to the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty on what they can ex­pect to see in terms of next steps in the im­ple­men­ta­tion of those de­ci­sions,” he said.