NEW YORK, New York – New City Mayor Eric Adams has released a document outlining the next phase of the city’s response to the unprecedented humanitarian crisis resulting from the surge of asylum seekers arriving in the five boroughs since last year.
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NEW YORK, New York – The wife of Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Juliet Holness, will deliver the keynote address at an International Women’s Conference to be held at the Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island on Saturday.
Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke Introduces Legislation to Place Shirley Chisholm Statue in US Capitol
WASHINGTON, DC – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, the first vice-chair of the United States Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Brooklyn, New York Republican Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis on Friday introduced bipartisan legislation in the US House of Representatives directing the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of late US Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm for placement in the US Capitol building in Washington.
NASSAU, Bahamas – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday announced a package of aid to the Caribbean that includes funding to tackle the climate crisis and stem the flow of illicit drugs and guns across borders, continued duty-free access to goods from the region, and security and other assistance specifically for Haiti.
NASSAU, Bahamas – A group of Bahamians in the United States and Canada are reportedly planning to protest against the administration of Prime Minister Phillip Davis later this month in Miami, Florida.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Criminal gangs in Haiti have openly established their own toll stations to collect money from road users traveling by car or motorcycle, in defiance of police and government authorities, in several parts of in the Caribbean country torn apart by a deep political and humanitarian crisis.
NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams says his administration will soon open a sixth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center to temporarily serve the continued influx of Caribbean and other asylum seekers arriving in New York.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States government said on Wednesday that disrupting illicit firearms trafficking in the Caribbean is “a shared priority” for the US and its Caribbean partners.
LONDON, UK – Jamaica sprint darling Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the only English-speaking Caribbean national nominated for the 2023 Laureus World Sports award.
OTTAWA, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will be heading to Nassau, Bahamas, this week, to participate as a special guest at this week’s Inter-sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM.
NEW YORK, New York – The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) has strongly denounced corrections officers’ emails to agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and called for swift passage of protections for Caribbean and other immigrants.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname – The United States has condemned Friday’s attack on the Surinamese National Assembly building and related acts of violence, saying that the incident was an unacceptable assault on democracy.
HAMILTON, Bermuda — Premier David Burt has led tributes to Arthur Hodgson, Bermuda’s first black Rhodes Scholar, who later became an attorney, magistrate and a government minister. He was 82 years old.
