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Just two weeks after welcoming his ninth child with model LaNisha Cole, Nick Cannon is back on daddy duty, announcing the birth of another child, a son named Rise Messiah Cannon.

The entertainer shared the news of the birth of his 10th child with Brittany Bell, the 34-year-old pageant queen with whom he has two other children.

“Welcome Rise Messiah Cannon,” Cannon wrote via Instagram Stories on Friday. He added that the baby was born on September 23.

The 41-year-old ‘Mask Singer’ host expressed gratitude for his other “blessing”.

“As my journey on this planet becomes more and more remarkable and unfathomable, all I can do is thank God and continue to ask the Most High to order my steps,” he wrote. “He has given me stewardship and dominion over a family dynamic that to some is unimaginable.”

He revealed to his more than five million followers that the birth of his 10th child was hard.

“Probably the most difficult labour and delivery I have ever witnessed!” he shared. “[Forty-eight] hours of excruciating pain and life-risking danger to welcome 10 pounds of love and joy.”

He expressed his gratitude to Bell for being the “rock and foundation of his fatherhood journey”, saying, “She has taught me so much about parenting, psychology, spirituality, love, and just life in general.”

Cannon welcomed son Golden in February 2017 and daughter Powerful in December 2020, both with Bell.

He also shares children with Mariah Carey, Abby De La Rosa, Bre Tiesi, and Lanisha Cole.

In April 2011, he welcomed twins, Moroccan and Monroe, 11, with Carey. Another set of twins, Zion and Zillion, was born to De La Rosa in June 2021.

Also in June 2021, he welcomed a baby boy with Alyssa Scott, however, the baby died in December after battling brain cancer.

By June the next year, another son named Lengendary was born to Tiesi, and earlier this month a daughter, Onyx, arrived with Cole.

“I am so indebted and grateful for the matriarch energy in my time of need,” Cannon wrote.

Cannon is also expecting another child, his 11th offspring, with de la Rosa.

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PDP leader Watson Duke

Embattled Progressive Democratic Patriots political leader Watson Duke has said the government is in “a hot mess.”

He was commenting on the $57.6 billion budget, which the Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, read on Monday in the Parliament.

In a video posted in his Facebook page, on Saturday, Duke said the PDP intends to reverse ‘”every evil and wicked plan that Rowley would have instituted in the national budget.” But he did not say how he plans to do this. Duke claimed the government’s decision to raise fuel prices “is to ensure that poor people don’t eat and that they continue feeding our children in the nation’s schools.”

In the same vein, he claimed its plan to reintroduce property tax is to ensure that citizens do not own a home.

“So we will continue to be vagrants in our country….”

Regarding the fare increases on the sea and air bridge, which come into effect on January 1, Duke said, “We believe the fact that airfare has gone up and boat fare has gone up, he is saying to the people stay in your home.”

On Saturday, Duke spent a part of the day in Trinidad at Maracas Beach and the fishing depot assisting members of the community in a clean-up drive.

In a video, Duke claimed residents had invited him to the exercise. “It is about people helping people. Putting people before politics.”

Duke chatted with some of the residents, including fishermen. One man said the drive was about self-empowerment. “It have plenty youths pushing a positive head,” the man said. Duke praised the effort, saying there are many people in TT doing positive things. He also described Maracas as the home of bake and shark.

Duke was resigned as deputy THA Chief Secretary last month after he removed Chief Secretary Farley Augustine as a deputy PDP leader. He also removed two other deputies – Dr Faith BYisrael and Alicia Roberts-Patterson. BYisrael has since been appointed deputy THA Chief Secretary. The power struggle between Duke and Augustine arose over after Duke’s rebuke of the THA’s treatment of some 27 members of the Roxborough Folk Performers who were due to perform at several events during Labor Day celebrations in New York last month.

Augustine had planned to review Duke’s role in the THA but he resigned. Duke has since said he will set on the opposition side in the THA but not in association with the PNM minority leader.

Duke this year opened a PDP office in Trinidad as part of plans to contest national elections.

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Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) discovered over 34 pounds of marijuana during an operation conducted at Experiment Bath, West Coast Berbice, earlier today.

Reports are that CANU officers went to lot 365 Experiment Bath, where a search was conducted on a minibus, bearing license plate number BZZ 4342, during which a quantity of suspected cannabis was discovered.

A further search was conducted on motor car, PTT 7821, which was also at the location and this resulted in the discovery of another quantity of suspected cannabis.

Pramal Madray, 38, of the same address, was arrested and escorted to CANU’s Headquarters along with the narcotics and both motor vehicles.

The 10 parcels of narcotics tested positive for Cannabis and weighed 15.8 kilogrammes with a street value of approximately GY$4.7M.

Investigations are ongoing.

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Three Grand Cayman Amazon parrots, Klakker, Chonky and Slim Jim, were set free at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park today (Saturday).

Assisting with the parrots’ release was Jane H?konsson, a zoologist and research officer with the Terrestrial Resources Unit at the Department of Environment (DoE).

Explaining how the parrots ended up at the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park, H?konsson explained that the trio were initially rescued last year from the Dart Nursery in West Bay after a Royal Palm tree they were nesting in fell over.

Describing why the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park may be an appropriate home for Klakker, Chonky and Slim Jim, H?konsson said that parrots “like more natural areas” and they can usually be found “literally anywhere there are fruit trees. “

Habitat being destroyed

H?konsson cautioned, however, that the available habitat for Grand Cayman parrots is decreasing.

With all the bulldozing of every natural habitat you can imagine, there is just enough breeding spaces for them.

[And] every time we look at satellite images, more and more green spaces disappear. So, they are at a real risk of extinction, especially on the Brac.

H?konsson said.

H?konsson also explained that there are matters beyond our control that impact habitat. One example is a natural disaster, like a hurricane.

With Grace we lost a lot of nesting trees.

[Then] when we had Paloma go through, we lost over 50 per cent of the Brac population.

If we have two consecutive storms, we would likely lose the Grand Cayman parrot.

H?konsson noted, however, that, notwithstanding the challenges there are things that the DoE can do to help with the parrot population.

H?konsson said:

What we can do as natural resource managers is to increase the population’s resilience so that they are more resilient to storms. But obviously, we’re not doing that. We’re decreasing their resilience by continually seeing declining populations due to mostly development, but also [through the] pet trade [where] people keep them for pets and farmers still shoot them because they would eat their mangoes.

Working with farmers

In relation to farmers, H?konsson referred to her existing working relationships with farmers.

H?konsson said:

I work with farmers to deter parrots from their farms through audio cues.

Every time I get a rescue bird, they scream when you are trying to take them to the vet and stuff.

So I’ve recorded those screams and we put it on the speaker system and parrots actually stay out of the farms when they hear other parrots in pain.

So it has really worked this year.

This year, I only tried on one farm, but he lost not a single mango.

H?konsson indicated that the DoE will continue to build good relationships with farmers, with the aim of helping them to protect their crops from parrots, while keeping the parrots safe.

More about Cayman Amazon Parrots

There are two Cayman parrots, one being the Grand Cayman Amazon and the other is the Cayman Brac Amazon. These are understood to be sub-species of the Cuban Amazon.

The Grand Cayman Amazons are endemic to Grand Cayman. According to a census completed by DoE and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 2015, it is estimated that there are 6000 parrots.

The Cayman Brac Amazons are endemic to Cayman Brac. The foregoing census indicated that there are about 600 parrots in Cayman Brac, some of which go to Little Cayman from time to time.

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