The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) has launched an in­ter­ac­tive dash­board to mon­i­tor avian in­fluen­za A(H5N1) cas­es in the Amer­i­c­as in­clud­ing the Caribbean.

Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion af­ter fac­ing an in­creas­ing loss of sup­port both with­in his par­ty and in the coun­try.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has named Stu­art Young as his suc­ces­sor—tout­ing Young’s lead­er­ship abil­i­ties and readi­ness to steer the na­tion— fol­low­ing a vote in which Young was cho­sen over Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son.

For months, po­lit­i­cal cir­cles whis­pered that Stu­art Young was the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s favourite to re­place Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley. Those whis­pers were ver­i­fied yes­ter­day in To­ba­go, when Dr Row­ley an­nounced that Young would re­place him as PM when he re­tires be­fore this year’s gen­er­al elec­tions.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called the an­nounce­ment of Stu­art Young to re­place Dr Kei­th Row­ley as Prime Min­is­ter “un­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic.”

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts say the po­lit­i­cal winds are shift­ing with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), fol­low­ing yes­ter­day’s en­dorse­ment by the par­lia­men­tary cau­cus of Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to serve as Prime Min­is­ter when Dr Kei­th Row­ley steps down from the po­si­tion.

Op­po­si­tion politi­cians were quick to have their say on the de­ci­sion yes­ter­day to have Stu­art Young serve as Prime Min­is­ter when Dr Kei­th Row­ley steps down from the po­si­tion.

The PNM’s Gen­er­al Coun­cil must have the fi­nal say on Stu­art Young as prime min­is­ter, ac­cord­ing to se­nior par­ty mem­ber Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus. She al­so said Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley should step down and deal with the con­sti­tu­tion­al process to en­sure the PNM has a po­lit­i­cal leader to take the par­ty in­to 2025 polls.

The peo­ple of Diego Mar­tin West are call­ing for For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne to re­place in­cum­bent Dr Kei­th Row­ley as their MP.

Fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that the Par­lia­men­tary Cau­cus had sup­port­ed En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to re­place him as Prime Min­is­ter when he steps down, Guardian Me­dia spoke with cit­i­zens in Port-of-Spain to get their re­ac­tions to the de­ci­sion.

The com­mu­ni­ty of San­ta Rosa Heights, Ari­ma, is do­ing its part to tack­le plas­tic pol­lu­tion in T&T.

Trade union lead­ers say that even if the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) re­turns to of­fice fol­low­ing the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tions with­out Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, there will be no im­prove­ment in the coun­try’s in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions cli­mate.