In­dia’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di has be­come the first world leader and sec­ond non-na­tion­al to re­ceive Trinidad and To­ba­go’s high­est na­tion­al ho­n­our, the Or­der of the Re­pub­lic (ORTT). He re­ceived the ho­n­our yes­ter­day, in recog­ni­tion of his “leg­endary” kind­ness and gen­eros­i­ty to­ward the coun­try.

In a land­mark mo­ment in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s diplo­mat­ic his­to­ry, In­dia Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Mo­di ad­dressed a joint ses­sion of Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, de­liv­er­ing a pow­er­ful mes­sage de­nounc­ing ter­ror­ism and cel­e­brat­ing the en­dur­ing bonds be­tween the two na­tions.

Mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion joined forces with dis­grun­tled for­mer Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) work­ers as they staged a brief demon­stra­tion on Fred­er­ick and Knox Streets in down­town Port of Spain yes­ter­day.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day sig­nalled her ad­min­is­tra­tion’s in­ten­tion to ex­pand Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic re­la­tion­ship with In­dia, de­scrib­ing the South Asian coun­try as a “trust­ed friend and re­li­able part­ner” that shares this na­tion’s de­mo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues and de­vel­op­ment as­pi­ra­tions.