Trinidad gets kangaroos
(Trinidad Express) The Emperor Valley Zoo has four new additions. Four red kangaroos have been brought in from a facility in Texas, USA.
(Trinidad Express) The Emperor Valley Zoo has four new additions. Four red kangaroos have been brought in from a facility in Texas, USA.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro posted on social media that funding for movies with LGBT+ themes was being suspended, a decision that was published yesterday on the country’s official web site.
(Jamaica Observer) THE confessed driver of a motor car who was captured recklessly stunt driving in a video that went viral last week got off scot-free after surrendering to the police.
(Trinidad Express) A DIEGO MARTIN man was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The university lecturer who had promised to give needy students his approximately $3 million in basic salary annually had his contract terminated by The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, amid questions about his mental state.
(Trinidad Guardian) A night of celebration spurned into lifetime of tragedy for a Gasparillo family after bandits shot dead a police officer’s brother and wounded his friend after a robbery at a village bar.
(Trinidad Express) In the last four years, Chinese tech firm, Huawei, has invested $272 million (US$40 million) in Trinidad and Tobago.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A Honduran court convicted the wife of former President Porfirio Lobo on graft charges, including siphoning funds from programmes designed to help poor children, a judicial official said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former government minister Marlene McDonald’s long-time companion Michael Carew and another man charged alongside the couple for corruption and money laundering, are yet to access bail.
LIMA (Reuters) – Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez announced yesterday that doctors detected a likely malignant growth in his right lung during a routine checkup.
(Jamaica Observer) When Jamaica’s youngest detective sergeant Adrian Wellington returns to the island in 2020, equipped with an MSc in Forensic Accounting, he intends to undertake an extensive study into financial crimes in the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of a woman who was shot dead by police in Santa Cruz believes her daughter’s death may be linked to a car which she bought four days before the incident.
(Jamaica Observer) One of the island’s top plastic surgeons is advocating the establishment of a specialist registry in light of a significant increase in the demand for body contour surgeries across the island.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 64-year-old woman and her granddaughter, 20, were arrested after police officers found an assault rifle at her home in Santa Cruz, Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) The attacks against prison officers continued on Sunday morning after a prison officer’s house was shot at in Pleasantville.
(Trinidad Express) Police have rescued a 17-year-old Venezuelan national who was abducted and being kept in a house in exchange for drugs.
(Trinidad Express) Three men who held employees of a popular ice cream establishment at gunpoint and robbed them of cash and cellphones were held on Sunday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Vigilant nurses at the busy Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine recently accosted a man who posed as a doctor for over a week in the accident and emergency (A&E) department.
(Trinidad Express) Radio announcer Justin Dookhi drowned in a pond at the La Vega Estate in Gran Couva on Sunday.
(Jamaica Observer) Renowned musical arranger, composer and choirmaster Noel Dexter is being remembered as a gentle giant whose legacy will be the impact of his work on thousands of Jamaicans.
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