While most of the world is concerned about staying safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, human traffickers are only focused on making money by selling their victims in the lurid web of this modern-day slavery.

Smoke billowed high over Minneapolis on Wednesday night as anti-police protesters vented their anger over a black man’s death with looting and arson.

BROWARD COUNTY, FL - Broward County issued Emergency Order 20-13 on Friday, May 22, which extends Phase 1 reopening guidelines to beaches, commercial gyms and fitness centers, hotels and other commercial lodging, with restrictions, effective Tuesday, May 26.

Some  think that they will escape the long arm of law and the consequences of the crimes they commit by fleeing to other countries. But time and again they are proven wrong, especially when the State Attorney's Office is involved. 

Miami, FL – Congresswoman Wilson will host a forum titled “An Impending Crisis: COVID-19 in Haiti, Ongoing Instability, and the Dangers of Continued U.S. Deportations,” featuring House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel; Leonie Hermantin, Haitian community leader and director of Development, Communications, and Strategic Planning for the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center; Clarel Cyriaque, a practicing attorney who represents immigrants facing deportation; Dan Erikson, senior fellow at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and former special advisor to Vice President Joe Biden; Cate Oswald, chief policy and partnership officer for Partners in Health; and Jake Johnston, senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 

Please see below photos and captions regarding the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) hosting of a Gathering in Memory of the Rt. Excellent Samuel Sharpe, National Hero, on Saturday, May 23 at the National Heroes Park in Kingston.The somber event was held in commemoration of the 188th Anniversary of his death. Sam Sharpe led the 1831 Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica, which broke the back of chattel slavery in Jamaica and eventually led to the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves in Jamaica and the wider Western Hemisphere.

"The death of a child is tragic; the killing of a child is horrific," said State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle at a press conference on May 24th, 2020, regarding the killing of 9-year-old Alejandro Ripley allegedly by his own mother.

MINNEAPOLIS—Protests turned violent on Tuesday as anti-police activists smashed windows and vandalized police cars in response to the death of an African American man at the hands of four law enforcement officers.

Tallahassee, Fla. – The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried are joining the Federal Trade Commission to warn consumers about COVID-19 contact tracing text messaging scams.

New York, New York (CB) – Avril Bacchus, a retired teacher in Brooklyn, New York and Valerie Taylor who also lives in a nearby zip code have a lot in common beyond being lifelong educators – Both are Caribbean immigrants. Avril is from Bachelor’s Adventure on the East coast of Demerara, Guyana in South America and Valerie originates from St. Catherine, Jamaica.

City of Miramar, FL—City of Miramar Commissioner Yvette Colbourne has been providing 300 weekly hot meals to seniors in the City of Miramar during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic began, Miramar Senior Centers closed its doors and asked senior citizens to remain at home for their safety. Commissioner Colbourne became concerned that seniors may not have the hot lunches they were used to receiving at the senior centers.

Please see below photos and captions regarding the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) hosting of a Floral Tribute to commemorate the 97TH Anniversary of the birth of the Most Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer ON, OJ, PC, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, on Monday, May 18 at the National Heroes Park in Kingston.