Gail Alexan­der

Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives yes­ter­day desk-thumped their con­grat­u­la­tions to T&T "Javelin King" Keshorn Wal­cott and track and field sprint­er Jereem "The Dream" Richards af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar praised their re­cent gold and sil­ver sport­ing achieve­ments.

This fol­lowed Wal­cott's "gold­en" 88.16-me­tre toss at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships 2025 in Tokyo, where he topped oth­er glob­al ath­letes, some of whom had de­feat­ed him be­fore. It was Wal­cott's sec­ond gold medal for T&T, fol­low­ing his record at the 2012 Olympics.

Richards al­so took sil­ver for his 43.72-sec­ond "blaze" in the 400 me­tres fi­nal.

Launch­ing the con­grat­u­la­tions soon af­ter Par­lia­ment con­vened, Per­sad-Bisses­sar told the House yes­ter­day, "I just want to take a mo­ment of the time of this Ho­n­ourable House to reg­is­ter and record the vic­to­ry of Keshorn Wal­cott and the great pride he brought to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

"This is not the first time he has made us proud, this is the sec­ond time and I'm sure the oth­ers (Op­po­si­tion) will join us in con­grat­u­lat­ing Keshorn for bring­ing back pride to T&T by his vic­to­ry.

"And we are al­so so proud of Jereem as well. We're so proud of that young man for his vic­to­ry bring­ing sil­ver re­cent­ly in Japan, so can we thank him as well for the pride!" she called out to MPs.

Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans loud­ly desk-thumped their con­grat­u­la­tions.