The Royal Borough of Arima (population 35,000) is the fourth largest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Located in eastern Trinidad, Arima supports the only organised indigenous community in the country, the Santa RosaCarib Community and is the seat of the Carib Queen (currently Valentina Medina). Arima was founded in 1757 by Capuchin priests as a Mission to convert the Amerindian population to Christianity.
Arima was petitioned for municipal status by Queen Victoria as part of her Golden Jubilee in 1887. This was granted the following year and Arima became a Royal Borough on August 1, 1888. Historically the third town of Trinidad, Arima has slid into fourth position as Chaguanas has boomed into the largest town in the country.
Elected county councils with certain executive powers govern the eight counties of Trinidad.
The three major cities, Port-of-Spain, San Fernando, and Arima, each have a mayor and a city council.
In 1980, Tobago was granted its own House of Assembly, which sits for four years and consists of 12 elected members and three members chosen by the majority party.
Perhaps one of the happiest events during his pontificate was his arrival at Rome of four Japanese ambassadors on 22 March, 1585.
They had been sent by the converted kings of Bungo, Arima, and Omura, in Japan, to thank the pope for the fatherly care he had shown their country by sending them Jesuit missionaries who had taught them the religion of Christ.
In order to safeguard the Catholic religion in Germany, he instituted a special Congregation of Cardinals for German affairs, the so-called Congregatio Germanica, which lasted from 1573-1578.
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