U.S. attorneys general fight push to exclude Caribbean immigrants from census
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition of 21 attorneys general across the United States in filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for attempting to - once again - leave millions of Caribbean and other immigrants out of the apportionment base from the 2020 Census that establishes the number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives that each state receives.
Barbados defies U.S. threat
Barbados says it has no intention of ending a program through which Cuban nurses are engaged in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the Caribbean island, despite a threat by the United States to target countries benefiting from the “medical missions” from Havana.
“Barbados is a sovereign country and we make decisions in the interest of the country just like other countries large and small,” said Health Minister Jeffrey Bostic.
Caribbean marks slavery’s abolition
The Caribbean community observed the 186th anniversary of the abolition of slavery on Aug. 1, with chairman of the regional integration movement, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, saying this year’s observance is taking on a greater international significance, especially with the Black Lives Movement’s rising prominence in the United States.
Jamaican appoint to top U.N. trade post
Jamaican Pamela Coke-Hamilton has been appointed executive director of the International Trade Center (ITC) at the United Nations, a joint agency of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization for trade and international business development.
Barbadian heads new Caribbean lawyers group
Barbadian-born Judge Sylvia Hinds-Radix has been elected president of the first Caribbean American Lawyers Association in New York.CALA was formed by Caribbean attorneys who wanted to see the formation of a bar association that reflected the Caribbean diaspora.
