Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau an­nounced his res­ig­na­tion Mon­day in the face of ris­ing dis­con­tent over his lead­er­ship, and af­ter the abrupt de­par­ture of his fi­nance min­is­ter sig­nalled grow­ing tur­moil with­in his gov­ern­ment.

Trinidad and To­ba­go is among 63 coun­tries short­list­ed for the World Sum­mit Awards (WSA 2024) for ini­tia­tives aligned to the the Unit­ed Na­tions Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals (SDGs).

Trudeau says: “I am a fight­er …. The fact is, de­spite best ef­forts to work through it, Par­lia­ment has been par­a­lyzed for months.” He says a new ses­sion of Par­lia­ment is need­ed.

Fac­ing grow­ing calls to re­sign, Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Justin Trudeau is ex­pect­ed to make an an­nounce­ment Mon­day about his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture.

Af­ter day one of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) par­lia­men­tary re­treat, MPs and Sen­a­tors con­tin­ued to re­main tight-lipped about dis­cus­sions per­tain­ing to the par­ty’s suc­ces­sion plan­ning.

To­ba­go West MP Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis and To­ba­go East MP Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy have laud­ed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s lead­er­ship fol­low­ing his de­ci­sion to bow out of pol­i­tics end­ing his 45-year po­lit­i­cal ca­reer.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher has pledged to bol­ster se­cu­ri­ty for the ju­di­cia­ry fol­low­ing the mur­der of state pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor, who was gunned down last Tues­day, months af­ter he pros­e­cut­ed a known gang leader.

As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice South/Cen­tral Wayne Mys­tar said yes­ter­day that eight sus­pects linked to car thefts have been ar­rest­ed dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE).

A week in­to the State of Emer­gency (SoE), head of the Ex­tor­tion Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Richard Smith, says he and his team are go­ing af­ter 14 ex­tor­tion­ists who have been tar­get­ing busi­ness­peo­ple in North and Cen­tral Trinidad.

The rel­a­tives of 15-year-old Beris Joseph, whose body found dumped at Mt Hay on Sat­ur­day, are strug­gling to cope with the or­deal.

Dr Del­mon Dex­ter Bak­er has been ap­point­ed as the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (TRHA). Ac­cord­ing to an in­ter­nal memo leaked to Guardian Me­dia, Dr Bak­er of­fi­cial­ly as­sumed of­fice on Jan­u­ary 3.

A store­room at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port site along Store Bay Lo­cal Road was bro­ken in­to be­tween Fri­day evening and Sat­ur­day morn­ing.