Tallahassee, FL - Florida now has a chamber focused on uplifting and helping black businesses around the state. On February 1st, 2022, to kick off Black History Month, the Florida Association of Black Chambers of Commerce hosted its first Black Chamber Day at the Capitol to advocate for resources for black chambers and black businesses.
NEW YORK, New York – In an historic vote, New York City Council has voted unanimously to confirm Caribbean-born jurist, Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, as the City’s new Corporation Counsel.
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – St. Lucia is celebrating its 43rd anniversary of political independence from Britain on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Phillip J’. Pierre calling for greater unity among the population as the island moves towards facing the socio-economic challenges confronting it.
NEW YORK, New York – Caribbean American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined her New York colleagues Congresswoman Grace Meng and Congressman Ritchie Torres in lauding a US court ruling striking down a restrictive mandate requiring diversity visa applicants from the Caribbean and other places to obtain passports before they could enter a lottery to apply for the US Diversity Visa Program.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent –The chief personnel officer (CPO) has been in touch with Vincentian students in Russia, amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has written to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Attorney General Dale Marshall says the Barbados government will delay all business in the Senate pending a decision from the High Court on whether the Upper Chamber may sit with three vacancies still to be filled.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States Embassy here says the decision to raise the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag on its compound is to call attention to efforts to advance racial equity and access to justice in the United States and worldwide.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government has said that nationals studying in Ukraine have turned down an offer to assist them to return home as the Russia appears to be sending in its troops to invade the European country.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Government of Barbados is set to receive a cash injection of US$115 million from the Government of China for the Scotland District road rehabilitation project in the east of the island.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a new advisory, calling on students in the tension-hit Ukraine to make arrangements to travel quickly if circumstances change.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana, an emerging global oil and gas power house, is celebrating its 52nd anniversary as a republic on Wednesday with the government and the opposition urging nationals to unite for the future socio-economic development of the country.
NEW YORK, New York – Brian Benjamin, has accepted the nomination of the New York State Democratic Party to contest the position of Lieutenant Governor in New York.
NEW YORK, New York – Newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams has appointed a Caribbean-born pastor to head a newly-created Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnership (OFCP).
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