Akash Sama­roo

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.

With the medal around his neck at Pres­i­dent’s House in Port-of-Spain, Mo­di told those in at­ten­dance that the ORTT “is a sym­bol of the deep and eter­nal friend­ship be­tween our two coun­tries.”