A call has been made for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to raise the repa­tri­a­tion of 72 chil­dren and 25 women cur­rent­ly in Mid­dle East refugee camps with US Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau on the side­lines at next week's Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly.

Aaron Ben­jamin, al­so known as “Se­quea,” 31, of Pe­tit Cu­ra­caye, San­ta Cruz, was shot and killed dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day morn­ing.

A 6-year-old boy iden­ti­fied as Cordell Christo­pher of Sen­non Vil­lage, Siparia, who was born with cere­bral pal­sy and had vi­su­al, mo­bil­i­ty and speech im­pair­ments, was found un­re­spon­sive at his home on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

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.

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.