HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Every day, veterinarians and zookeepers make their way to Cuba's National Zoo by whatever means they can, determined to not abandon the nearly 1,000 animals in their care and help save species at risk of extinction. Their dedication and food donations are vital to keeping alive an array of rhinos, jaguars and tigers -- including an extremely rare white tiger -- in the midst of a...

AUSTIN, United States (AFP) — A Venezuelan shot and wounded by a United States (US) immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said Monday. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, is in stable condition after suffering a gunshot wound to his torso, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The shooting in Austin, Texas, on Sunday marked the latest instance of...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Hundreds of flights from United States (US) East Coast airports were cancelled or delayed Monday due to a telecommunications line outage caused by a construction mistake, US officials said. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X that around 1900 GMT, flights were resuming at LaGuardia Airport and Philadelphia, while flights into Newark and JFK Airports were paused. "An Amtrak construction crew accidentally cut into...

WESTMORELAND, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesperson on Education Damion Crawford has bemoaned what he claims is the suffering of children in Jamaica under the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration. Addressing the 88th anniversary conference of the opposition People's National Party (PNP) on Sunday, Crawford used the well-known Bible verse Matthew 19:14 — where Jesus tells his disciples to suffer the children to come to him — to hammer home his...

Dr Carl Bruce, medical chief of staff at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), was on Monday found not guilty of assaulting fellow neurosurgeon Dr Roger Hunter nearly two decades ago. The verdict was handed down by Parish Court Judge Alwayne Smith in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. Bruce was found not guilty on two counts: malicious destruction of property and assault at common law. The...

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland — Following two failed attempts to introduce a private member’s bill that would reduce the qualifying period for Jamaicans illegally occupying Crown lands from 60 to 25 years, People's National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding announced that another attempt will be made to have the bill accepted by Parliament. Golding stated this will take place as soon as Parliament returns from its summer break which is slated for...

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CLARENDON, Jamaica — Police in Clarendon are reporting that a schoolboy was electrocuted on Sunday in Gimme-Me-Bit district when an iron pipe he was reportedly using to pick coconuts got entangled with an electric wire. The deceased has been identified as Rishane Roberts, 16, a student of Garvey Maceo High A police report said about 9:00 am on Sunday, the teen was standing on a rooftop of a shop on...

PARIS, France (AFP) -- French disco diva Amanda Lear publicly accused American singer Miley Cyrus on Monday of plagiarising one of her songs from the 1970s. Lear, a model-turned-singer who was a muse to surrealist painter Salvador Dali and a lover of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, took Cyrus to task over apparent similarities between her song "The Sphinx" and the American's new track "Redlights". Cyrus released her tenth album...

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Member of Parliament for St Andrew North Central and minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Delano Seiveright met with senior officials of the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) on Monday regarding the recent fatal shooting of a resident in the constituency. Among the Indecom officials at the meeting held at the commission's New Kingston headquarters was Indecom Commissioner Hugh Faulkner, according to...