French Pres­i­dent Em­manuel Macron called on Eu­rope Mon­day to “wake up” and spend more on de­fense, in a speech to the French mil­i­tary as Don­ald Trump re­turns to pow­er.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump has en­tered St. John’s Epis­co­pal Church with his wife, Mela­nia, for a ser­vice ahead of the in­au­gu­ra­tion, tak­ing part in a long pres­i­den­tial tra­di­tion.

A se­cu­ri­ty guard robbed the Ch­agua­nas mem­ber­ship club he works at, af­ter threat­en­ing to bomb it ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the man was ap­proached by the woman around 8.30 pm on Wil­son Av­enue, when they got in­to an ar­gu­ment which es­ca­lat­ed in­to a fight.

Prime Min­is­ter Al­ix Di­di­er Fils-Aimé says the ar­rival of 218 Kenyan po­lice and mil­i­tary per­son­nel il­lus­trates the de­ter­mi­na­tion of the gov­ern­ment and the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to erad­i­cate armed gangs and re­store peace and se­cu­ri­ty in the French-speak­ing Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) coun­try.

Seat­ed in a tat­tered ham­mock, swing­ing list­less­ly in his ram­shackle home atop a hill over­look­ing a grave­yard, Dhan­raj Soni­lal’s heart has not been whole since 2022. That was the year he lost his beloved De­o­matie, moth­er to his two chil­dren and his oth­er half.

Don­ald Trump, who over­came im­peach­ments, crim­i­nal in­dict­ments and a pair of as­sas­si­na­tion at­tempts to win an­oth­er term in the White House, will be sworn in as the 47th pres­i­dent tak­ing charge as Re­pub­li­cans claim uni­fied con­trol of Wash­ing­ton and set out to re­shape the coun­try’s in­sti­tu­tions.

The Diego Mar­tin West can­di­da­cy is de­vel­op­ing in­to a con­test be­tween me­dia per­son­al­i­ty Han des Vi­gnes and the con­stituen­cy’s la­dy vice chair­man Yokym­ma Bethelmy who has act­ed on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions as a tem­po­rary PNM sen­a­tor.

In his first book, which he ded­i­cat­ed to his par­ents, jour­nal­ist Ryan Ba­choo tells the poignant sto­ry of Tar, a teenag­er work­ing in the cane fields along­side wise and in­flu­en­tial Un­cle Sun­dar as ra­dio opens their ears to glob­al events through the BBC World Ser­vice.

Su­ru­jdeo Man­ga­roo, cul­tur­al af­fairs chair­man of the Hin­di Foun­da­tion of T&T has ex­pressed con­cern that the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch (CSM) com­pe­ti­tion con­tributes to the demise of In­di­an cul­ture in T&T.

Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee Di­ane Hen­der­son and ca­lyp­son­ian Karene As­che will be recog­nised at this year’s Fran­co-Ger­man Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Con­cert, host­ed by the Em­bassies of France and Ger­many at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) to­mor­row from 6.30 pm. French Am­bas­sador Di­di­er Chabert said Hen­der­son was cho­sen for her ef­forts in pro­mot­ing sport at all lev­els in the coun­try.

Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture, and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell, is set to ap­pear be­fore the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) screen­ing com­mit­tee this week af­ter se­cur­ing the back­ing of the ma­jor­i­ty of La Brea con­stituen­cy groups.