NEW YORK, New York – A Haitian-born legislator has spearheaded an initiative to rename a huge section of a street in Brooklyn in honor of his late compatriot, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, who also founded Chicago.
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CHANTILLY, Virginia – When Jamaican-born Winsome Sears assumes office on January 15, 2022, she will become the first woman lieutenant governor of Virginia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following United States Senate Majority Leader Charles ‘Chuck’ Schumer’s push and continued support, US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday his intent to nominate a veteran New York legislator as the first Jamaican-born Ambassador to Jamaica.
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the number of children and women abducted in Haiti until the end of August has already surpassed last year’s total.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The United States government is urging American citizens to leave Haiti now while they can still get flights, as the Caribbean nation remains in crisis.
NEW YORK, New York – Two Caribbean born medical practitioners are urging members of the Caribbean community in New York to get vaccinated against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic Dr. Clifford Young of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidadian Dr. Yolande Thomas-Badal, said it is important that Caribbean and other nationals protect themselves from the raging pandemic.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados legislators Wednesday elected 72-year-old Governor General, Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, to be the first ever President as the island moves to end its political relationship with Britain and adopt a republican status on November 30, its independence day.
LONDON, England - A UK deportation flight that was set to fly to Jamaica with some 50 deportees today went without most of its passengers as activists blocked the road in front of a detention center and lawyers obtained short term stays.
NEW YORK, New York – Two Haitian American legislators are urging residents to exercise their right to vote as early voting ends in New York on Sunday ahead of the November 2 general elections.
NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean legislators have been paying tribute to former United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell, who died on Monday at the age of 84.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Family, former colleagues and friends on Friday paid their last respects to Caribbean American four-star General Colin L. Powell, who died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, from complications of COVID-19.
UNITED NATIONS – A group of United Nations human rights experts Monday condemned the United State recent and ongoing systematic mass deportation of Haitian migrants and refugees, declaring them a violation of international law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Department of State says a top official will travel to Haiti on Tuesday to meet with officials on the ongoing political, economic and humanitarian crises in the French-speaking Caribbean country.
