A ma­jor win­ter blast of snow, ice, wind and plung­ing tem­per­a­tures in the U.S. stirred dan­ger­ous trav­el con­di­tions from cen­tral and south­ern states all the way to the East Coast Mon­day, prompt­ing schools and gov­ern­ment of­fices in sev­er­al states to close.

Con­gress will gath­er noon­time Mon­day to cer­ti­fy Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s elec­tion un­der the tight­est na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty lev­el pos­si­ble. Lay­ers of tall black fenc­ing flank the U.S. Capi­tol com­plex in a stark re­minder of what hap­pened on Jan­u­ary 6 four years ago.

Six sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and three firearms seized by of­fi­cers in the North East­ern, Cen­tral and Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sions, yes­ter­day in­to this morn­ing.

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.