Olympic Gold Medal winner Keshorn Walcott at the Piarco International Airport.

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BREAKING NEWS - MILLIONS FOR KESHORN WALCOTT

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Story Created: Aug 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM ECT

Story Updated: Oct 15, 2012 at 4:07 PM ECT

Trinidad and Tobago's Gold Medal Olympian Keshorn Walcott returned home from London today, to be feted at the Piarco International Airport before a motorcade accompanied him to his Toco home. The teenager left the airport a multi-millionaire, after the Prime Minister announced a bag of goodies to reward the nation's new athletic hero. Among the gifts -

* $1 million cash

* A house in Federation Park valued at $2.5 million

* 20,000 square feet of land in Toco

* A scholarship at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT).

* Caribbean Airlines aircraft to be named after Keshorn Walcott

*Toco Lighthouse to be named the “Keshorn Walcott Toco Lighthouse”.

* Housing Development Corporation (HDC) project in Toco.

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