Month: February 2025

In what was described as "a powerful and engaging evening," Brooklyn Sen. Kevin Parker hosted his first-ever Fireside Forum in Brooklyn on Thursday, Feb.13. At the forum, he met with local business owners in an intimate setting to discuss his vision as New York City's next comptroller. The event, which took place on East 84th St. in Canarsie, Brooklyn, "highlighted Parker's extensive experience, economic strategies, and unwavering commitment to financial […]

Authorities in Trinidad have asked Guyana and Jamaica to send senior military officers to help them probe the recent disappearance of nearly 26,000 rounds of high powered ammunition, an announcement stated Friday. It followed a cabinet meeting this week, noting that retiring Prime Minister Keith Rowley had asked for and won approval from President Irfaan Ali of Guyana and Andrew Holness of Jamaica to send the officers to sit on […]

As calls intensify for New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign amid his collusion with President Donald J. Trump over mass deportations, Caribbean and other immigrant advocates in New York have urged the city workforce not to collude with agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. “Today, New Yorkers find ourselves at another crossroads. Four of our City’s deputy mayors resigned because of how compromised the mayor […]

The United States Department of State says Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday held brief talks with Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Rubio and Holness discussed “key regional issues and the strong US-Jamaica partnership. “Secretary Rubio underscored the important historic and cultural ties between the United States and Jamaica, including the vibrant Jamaican Diaspora,” Bruce said. “Both leaders encouraged further strengthening of security […]

Grenada’s cabinet has emphatically turned down a request from the Trump administration for it to accept dozens of people deported from the US to the Eastern Caribbean island, saying it has no intention of doing so. Minister of Foreign Joseph Andall in Barbados for this week’s regional leaders summit noted that the US formally requested Grenada, but this is not being entertained in any way. Andall spoke on a public […]

A Congressional group led by ranking member Joaquin Castro had formally written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio that a high-level delegation attend this week's three-day CARICOM leaders summit in Barbados from Wednesday to begin reversing China's emerging dominant role in the region. Speaking to reporters at home on Monday, Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis says the region has no intention of being caught in the middle of an ideological […]

Apparently signaling that they have had enough of white rule, Black voters in the mid-Atlantic Caribbean island of Bermuda voted overwhelmingly to re-elect the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) in general elections held on Tuesday, confining the white-supported One Bermuda Alliance (OBA) to opposition benches for a third consecutive five-year term. The PLP which first came to power at the close of the 90s ending 400 years of white rule, carted […]

On Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James condemned the Trump administration's cuts to the World Trade Center Health Program. "Recklessly cutting the staffing, funding, and resources that ensure 9/11 first responders and survivors get the health care they need is flat-out cruel," James said. "Thousands of New Yorkers made heroic sacrifices to save others during this attack and are experiencing lifelong health impacts as a result. "These heroes deserve […]

The latest directives from the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, asking that shelter staff and other city-affiliated organizations cooperate with visiting federal immigration agents have many of these organizations adamant about the request and protesting such guidelines. Last week, a memorandum instructing the employees at these migrant shelters to collaborate with federal immigration employees or any other lawmakers was sent to the city shelter providers. The memo noted, […]