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Ministry of National Security delivers new jet skis to Lifeguards
Port of Spain:The nation’s Lifeguards got a much needed boost to their capacity to manage water safety at the nation’s beaches on Thursday April 29, 2021, when Minister of National Security, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds M.P. handed over three (3) brand new jet skis to the Lifeguard Services Division of the Ministry of National Security.
Minister Hinds entrusted the three (3) Jet Skis into the care of representatives of the Lifeguard Services Division who were on hand to receive them. The handover ceremony took place at Greene’s General Cycle Ltd, located on H.E. Robinson Compound, #57 Old Southern Main Road, Curepe.
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I tuned into SiriusXM satellite radio the other day just in time to hear a record that was one of the biggest, and least likely, hits of the 1940s: Rum and Coca-Cola, in which the Andrews Sisters sing about prostitution.
The song is all about soldiers and sailors stationed in Trinidad during the war and having rather too good a time. They’re drinking “rum and Coca-Cola” with the locals, both mothers and daughters, who are “working for the Yankee dollar.”
Comedian Morey Amsterdam was also working for the Yankee dollar, and then some. The short sidekick to Dick Van Dyke in his eponymous show had been part of a USO show that traveled to Trinidad in the early to mid-1940s. Never let it be said that Amsterdam didn’t have an ear for a good tune he heard the original version of the song on the island and brought it back to the United States just that his showbiz ethics were about what one could have expected from somebody with showbiz ethics. When Am
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Photography and reporting from Manaus, Brazil, by Dado Galdieri of Hilaea Media.
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
When Marcelo Gordo opens the picnic cooler, the stench is suffocating. Three dead pied tamarin monkeys, their cream-and-caramel-colored coats visible through plastic wrap, are curled up inside. Gordo, a biologist at the Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, explains that a student accidentally unplugged the freezer where he’d stored the monkeys, which had been killed on the road and given to him by city officials. Despite the decay, they are worth investigating.
Inside the spartan necropsy room at a veterinary school here, veterinarian Alessandra Nava and two graduate students pull on goggles, N95 masks, and blue nitrile gloves and begin to cut bits of tissue and collect bodily fluids from the monkeys. They pack the samples into vials to be transported to the Fiocruz Amazônia Biobank, a pathogen research collection that Nava helps