MIAMI GARDENS – Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara J. Jordan hosted a public dedication and renaming ceremony to recognize the new designation of a County facility as the Reverend Dr. Edward T. Graham Community Resource Center on February 3 in Miami Gardens.

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport celebrated the 63rd anniversary of the birth of the late Reggae singerDennis Emmanuel Brown, CDon Saturday, February 1, with a cultural gathering at his resting place at the National Heroes Park in Kingston.

An American man with Guyanese roots has been charged with the stabbing of five Orthodox Jews at a rabbi’s Hanukkah party in New York.

MIAMI-DADE – The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners today (Feb. 19) deferred a proposal to introduce a community identification program in Miami-Dade County.

NEW YORK – Immigrant rights advocates in New York have filed the first United States federal lawsuit seeking to jointly block three interrelated “public charge” rules promulgated by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump administration against Caribbean and other immigrants.

Several Caribbean roots Britons have been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as part of her 2020 New Year’s honors.

MIAMI-DADE – Today (Feb. 13), legislation proposed by Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava to extend earned family and sick leave to employees of businesses who do work with Miami-Dade County was deferred in committee. 

HAMILTON, Bermuda – A Bermudian man remained in a Florida jail up to late last month after he was charged with killing his mother as he celebrated his 28th birthday with his parents. Police said he had intended to shoot his father.

LONDON, England – A 23-year-old Jamaican medical student won the “Miss World” competition here last month.

MIAMI-DADE – The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners today (Feb. 4) passed legislation directing the County Attorney to evaluate legal options to bring claims against manufacturers of certain chemicals known as PFAS, which are pervasive in our environment and were used in common household products and industrial fire suppressants.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States has told Trinidad and Tobago nationals with expunged drug convictions they may not necessarily be granted a visa to visit the North American country.

TALLAHASSEE – The 2020 Governor’s Baseball Dinner, a celebration of a new season of Major League Baseball Spring Training in Florida, will be held Sunday, February 16, at CoolToday Park, the Spring Training Home of the Atlanta Braves, in North Port.