The de­com­posed body of an uniden­ti­fied man was dis­cov­ered in a ve­hi­cle in Cunu­pia on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

Two-year-old Ja­mi Williams of Beetham Gar­dens died af­ter he was struck by a ve­hi­cle along the East­ern Main Road, St Joseph, on Thurs­day night.

Iran de­cid­ed at the last minute Thurs­day to with­draw a res­o­lu­tion pro­hibit­ing at­tacks on nu­clear fa­cil­i­ties that it had put for­ward along with Chi­na, Rus­sia and oth­er coun­tries for a vote be­fore an an­nu­al gath­er­ing of the U.N. nu­clear watch­dog’s mem­ber na­tions.

T&T ath­letes Keshorn Wal­cott and Jereem Richards en­sured that Trinidad and To­ba­go’s medal drought at glob­al ath­let­ics meets did not ex­tend to a decade yes­ter­day, af­ter com­ing away from the 2025 World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo with gold and sil­ver medals in the javelin and 400 me­tres events, re­spec­tive­ly, on day six of the cham­pi­onships.

This was the re­sponse of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der to two in­stances of in­dis­ci­pline at schools where po­lice of­fi­cers were as­signed at the start of the new school term.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has apol­o­gised to firearms deal­er Brent Thomas for his or­deal af­ter his con­tro­ver­sial ar­rest and re­turn to T&T from Bar­ba­dos in Oc­to­ber 2022.

A 13-year-old stu­dent of the Coryal Sec­ondary School, Cu­mu­to, has been charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

The Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) (Cit­i­zen­ship) Bill, 2025, was passed in the Sen­ate ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing by a slim mar­gin af­ter hours of heat­ed de­bate. Once pro­claimed in­to law, it will al­low peo­ple to ac­quire T&T cit­i­zen­ship through their grand­par­ents.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Vish­nu Dhan­paul has warned that the Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) (Cit­i­zen­ship) Bill, 2025, could be ex­ploit­ed to abuse T&T’s cit­i­zen­ship and pass­ports—in­clud­ing fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­fil­tra­tion of Venezue­lan “sleep­er cells.”

A heat­ed de­bate erupt­ed in the Sen­ate on Wednes­day night, over the re­turn of T&T’s for­eign ter­ror­ist fight­ers (FTFs) and their chil­dren, as law­mak­ers con­sid­ered the Con­sti­tu­tion (Amend­ment) (Cit­i­zen­ship) Bill, 2025.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has con­firmed that ne­go­ti­a­tions for a ten per cent salary in­crease for pub­lic ser­vants will be­gin in the up­com­ing fi­nan­cial year, while cau­tion­ing the pub­lic to “ta­per” ex­pec­ta­tions for the na­tion­al bud­get.

The Gov­ern­ment has an­nounced plans to open the 230-bed Cou­va Hos­pi­tal and Mul­ti-Train­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, for­mer­ly known as the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, by the end of the year un­der its orig­i­nal name.