MIAMI-DADE – At NACo’s 2021 Annual Business Meeting, held in Washington, D.C., from July 9-12, 2021, the National Association of Counties announced that Vice Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert, III has been appointed to serve as the Vice Chairman of the Health Steering Committee and Resilient Counties Advisory Board Committee.
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Senator James Sanders Jr. had introduced numerous bills during this past legislative session, which ended yesterday, that passed both the Senate and the Assembly. They cover all aspects of life including health, economic development, criminal justice, military affairs, the environment and much more.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has held talks with Chinese President, XI Jinping with the two countries committing themselves to strengthening their 44-year-old relationship.
Tallahassee, Fla. — Today, Agriculture Commissioner, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Fried is announcing her fundraising for the month of June, the first month of her campaign for Florida Governor. Nikki’s campaign raised a total of $812,544.18, with her campaign account bringing in $396,376.23 and her political committee, Florida Consumers First, raising $416,167.95.
BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize National Teachers Union (BTNU) has gone to court challenging the government decision to reduce the salaries of its members by 10 per cent.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti –Haiti remains in a state of political uncertainty as the planned ceremony to swear in the President of the Senate, Joseph Lambert, as the new head of state to replace the assassinated Jovenel Moise, had been postponed indefinitely.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica and the United States have finalized improved operational protocols pertaining to the Shiprider Agreement, under which both countries cooperate to curtail illicit maritime drug trafficking, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith has said.
NEW YORK, New York– Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Saturday denounced a United States federal judge’s ruling in Texas making unlawful a program that has protected hundreds of thousands of undocumented young Caribbean adults and others from deportation.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Special Representative for Haiti has acknowledged the legitimacy of Prime Minister Claude Joseph to lead the French-speaking Caribbean nation following the “cowardly” assassination of President Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday, and welcomed his government’s commitment to hold national elections later this year.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council has reiterated its “deep concern” about what it describes as the “deteriorating political, security and humanitarian conditions” in Haiti.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government says it rejects “completely the attempts by certain unprincipled forces” to reverse the Cuban Revolution and urged calm and peace in the Caribbean country following protests there last weekend.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti– President Jovenel Moise has named his seventh prime minister since coming to office in 2017.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament Monday began debating legislation aimed at improving the socio-economic and political relationships between the two islands, amid uncertainty as to whether two pieces of legislation will receive the support of opposition legislators.
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