Laravel 5.5 event will not fire

I am working on a larval project that has two event when a user is registered one event will great all the roles and permissions for the user and the other will send a welcome email to the user. In the event service provider I have this

protected $listen = [
    'App\Events\NewUser' => [
        'App\Listeners\CreateAuthorization',
        'App\Listeners\SendWelcomeEmail',
    ],
];

In the new user event I have the user being passed in the constructor like below.

class NewUser
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithSockets, SerializesModels;

public $user;


public function __construct(User $user)
{
    //
    $this->user = $user;
}


public function broadcastOn()
{
    return new PrivateChannel('channel-name');
}
}

I have only tired implementing one listener so far and that is the create authorization listener

class CreateAuthorization
{

public function __construct()
{
    //
}

public function handle(NewUser $event)
{
    //
    Log::info('This is some useful information.');
    $user_role = new UserRole();
    $user_role->user_id = $event->user->id;
    $user_role->permission_id = $role->id;
    $user_role->save();



}
}

In the model class of the user I have this to link the event together.

protected $events = [
    'created' => NewUser::class
];

I have tried clearing my cache and logging messages but I from what I see log messages are not even showing up which leads me to think that the event is not even being fired when I user is created. I am super lost on how to solve this issue.

via Chebli Mohamed