Month: August 2024

“The Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans” by Theresa McCulla c.2024, The University of Chicago Press                          $32.50                              345 pages   You’ve spent a lot of time scouring the internet in search of menus. Will you try this dish, or that one? Sample two entrees, or three? Can you understand the people in a city without tasting their best dishes? You’ll know soon enough because you’ve chosen the […]

NYC Health + Hospitals on Thursday announced the appointment of Dominican Republic-born Cristina Contreras, LMSW, MPA, FABC as the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, and Trinidadian-born Julian John, MPA as CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan. In these roles, NYC Health + Hospitals said the CEOs will ensure all New Yorkers have access to high-quality health care, grow services at the hospitals, and develop strategies to support staff recruitment […]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says 20 officials involved in the management and administration of justice and citizen security in St. Lucia have participated in a two-day workshop aimed at strengthening human rights-based and gender-sensitive policing in St.  Lucia. UNODC said on Thursday that it organized and facilitated the August 14-15 workshop, dubbed “Enhance Equal Access to Justice for All in St. Lucia, with coordination support […]

The Government of Canada says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille have agreed on the importance of working closely with the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) and taking the “appropriate steps” toward holding free and fair elections in the violence-wracked, beleaguered French-speaking Caribbean country. In speaking with Conille on Thursday, the Canadian Government said Trudeau congratulated him on his appointment and thanked him for his efforts […]

The Fort Lauderdale-based Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), together with the CHTA Education Foundation (CHTAEF), is calling on the global community to support its Hurricane Relief Auction to support Caribbean hospitality workers impacted by the recent devastation of Hurricane Beryl. CHTA said on Thursday that the auction offers “a unique opportunity for individuals to contribute to recovery efforts, ensuring that affected communities receive the necessary support to rebuild and […]

Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY) and Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY), joined by Reps. Larry Bucshon, M.D. (R-IN), Doris Matsui (D-CA), Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Frank Mrvan (D-IN), on Wednesday introduced the bipartisan Save Our Safety-Net Hospitals Act to prevent massive cuts to New York hospitals’ Medicaid payments. ‘“New York’s safety net hospitals are an invaluable resource for our state’s most vulnerable patients, and Medicaid DSH funding is necessary […]

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has fired the head of a commercial state bank after he had alleged that three members of the country’s governing interim government had demanded bribes from him to remain as head honcho of the National Bank of Credit (BNC). Raoul Pascal Pierre Louis thought he was doing the right thing by formally writing to Conille recently telling him that the council members, Louis Gérald Gilles, Smith […]

Pastor Louis H. Straker, Jr. and parishioners at Reflections Church, on Utica Avenue and Beverley Road in Brooklyn, have made a “generous donation” of $5,000 towards the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Hurricane Beryl relief effort. Flanked by parishioners, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the United States Rondy “Luta” McIntosh, and members of the Brooklyn-based SVG Relief USA, Inc., Pastor Straker presented a check, on National Night […]