Winsome Earle-Sears was on Saturday sworn as the 42nd Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Jamaican-born Ms. Sears is the first woman to serve as a Lt. Governor and the first Black woman to hold a statewide office in the Commonwealth.
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NEW YORK, NY - A former senator who was being sought in connection with the July 7th assassination of President Jovenel Moise, has reportedly been arrested in Jamaica.
NEW YORK, NY - A “modern-day lynching?” That’s what the family of Caribbean immigrant says it all boils down to even though Pennsylvania State Police’s Western Heritage Affairs office says it's not being treated as a hate crime.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) has filed a class action lawsuit against the Biden administration alleging the abuse of asylum-seeking Haitians, whose rights it said had been violated when they were removed from a makeshift camp in Texas in October.
NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has dismissed as “purely a partisan attack” on Caribbean and other immigrant communities, a lawsuit filed by several New York Republican officials that seeks to stop more than 800,000 immigrants from voting in local municipal elections.
MIAMI, Florida – A Colombian national, Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, has been arrested based on a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida on a plot to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed at his private residence in Port au Prince on July 7, last year. His wife, Martine, was also injured during the attack and had to be treated in the United States.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Sunday said it is “profoundly saddened” by the death of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
NEW YORK, New York - Haiti’s prime minister is again being implicated in the murder of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse in July.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – A wide scale investigation has been launched following the attempted assassination of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Sunday morning.
NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) Commissioner Raquel Batista on Wednesday announced that the City will provide US$1.5 million in funding to help newly-arrived Haitians in New York access immigration legal assistance and social services.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations has called on the authorities in Haiti to “find the perpetrators and bring them to justice” as the bullet riddled bodies of two journalists were retrieved from Laboule 12, a village, south west of here, over the weekend.
NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has granted clemency to a convicted Jamaican-born drug dealer among 10 immigrants who have “showed remorse and exemplified rehabilitation”.
NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams, says while he is encouraged by some of the announced efforts to protect New Yorkers amid an Omicron wave, he is “deeply frustrated that they were not already in place.
