“Either we return to a globalization of concentration that is authoritarian, and to the same institutional design, or we build a different future” - Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ponders life in the region after COVID-19.

The following is an open letter to Haiti President Jovenel Moise written April 21 by Marleine Bastien, executive director the South Florida-based Family Action Network Movement (FANM). According to the Haiti Press Network, 129 Haitian nationals, including 49 minors, were scheduled to be deported to Haiti on April 23. The letter has been edited for length, style and content.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he will continue his assault on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). His Justice Department will plead with the Supreme Court later this year to end Obamacare and replace it with nothing. 

 Dear CBA Family and Friends,

Plagues have been around for centuries. They’ve even been chronicled in the Bible, when locusts, toads, flies, pestilence and diseases tormented mankind.

Census Day 2020 came and went this year without a lot of fanfare as it was upstaged by the dreaded new coronavirus (COVID-19) that is spreading death and mayhem across the globe.

One of the reporters in our Sheldon office received an e-mail a week ago stating his child was no longer qualified to be taken care of by the local day-care facility. The e-mail came on Friday and the change went into effect on Monday. Never mind that the reporter’s spouse works at the local hospital and 4-month-old has been in the care of the facility since January.

The Democrats are struggling in the 2020 presidential campaign. Senator, Bernie Sanders is leading the pack of Democratic candidates, but he is not really a Democrat, so the campaign is really confusing. Senator Sanders is an independent, and a socialist, and with the label of socialist, he will probably lose to President Trump.

As Florida begins to reopen under Governor Ron DeSantis’s plan, there are over 34,000 infected with the virus and over 1,300 have died. It is a sad statement on testing in the state, when only 2% of the state has been tested, and very few trust the data and results. It is shameful in the state that the media were forced to file a lawsuit to release data on covid-19, to get information on nursing homes, and long term care centers.

African people in Brazil are facing an increase in systematic extermination orchestrated by the white supremacist government of Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of Donald Trump, during the Coronavirus pandemic.

On October 30, 2019 following an in depth, fair public procurement RFP process as determined by the Office of Inspector General, Mayor Carlos Gimenez signed a letter of recommendation for the Advanced Traffic Management System. This system will provide traffic lights throughout the county with the technology to improve the flow of traffic and decrease traffic congestion.

There is something wrong in President Trump’s Administration, when the Center for Disease Control is being muzzled and giving very little information about the coronavirus and covid-19. With some of the smartest scientist and the most knowledgeable people in America about pandemics, they are silent and not holding daily and weekly discussions with the media and television news.