Month: June 2025

Minister of Health Mike Darville has told parliament that the Bahamian government has dropped a political foreign policy bombshell. The government plans to scrap the current medical brigade program with the Cuban government and instead hire personnel directly. Driven by mounting pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the decades-old practices by Caribbean governments to allow the US-sanctioned Cuban government to receive a portion of their earnings, the minister says […]

With early voting already underway and Primary Day approaching on Tuesday, June 24, New Yorkers have an important opportunity to shape the city’s future by casting their ballots in critical local races. Here’s what voters need to know before heading to the polls. Who can vote? New York is a closed primary state, meaning only voters registered with a political party can vote in that party’s primary. To check your […]

Caribbean immigration advocates and legislators on Tuesday, June 17, expressed outrage over the arrest of New York City Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. Lander, a staunch critic of President Trump's mass deportation policy, was arrested while trying to steer an immigrant man past ICE agents stationed in the hallway of the courthouse. "The arrest […]

The road map for revitalizing SUNY Downstate Medical Hospital is now being developed. This will initiate the planned renovation of a much-needed community health facility in Central Brooklyn. After several demonstrations, town hall meetings, six trips to Albany, NY, and a bus ride to Washington, DC, by local clergy leaders and politicians advocating daily that Downstate Medical's doors remain open, all hands are now on deck. A decision has finally […]

In her first town hall meeting since President Trump assumed office on Jan 20, Caribbean-American Democratic U.S. Rep. Yvette D. Clarke Monday night strongly condemned the president for unleashing what she described as unprecedented "terror, confusion and chaos across this nation." In the well-attended, two-hour-plus town hall meeting at George W. Wingate High School Auditorium on Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn, Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants who represents the 9th […]

Antigua's government has reacted defiantly to new threats from the Trump administration to restrict travel for nationals of countries that sell golden passports and citizenship to foreigners for cash, saying the federation with Barbuda would do all in its power to protect the program. Antigua Minister of Foreign Affairs Chet Greene told reporters on Monday that credible people run the nation's Citizenship By Investment scheme (CIP) and properly conduct due […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Friday, June 13, that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will make its Election Protection Hotline available for the June 24, 2025, primary election and during the early voting period, which runs from Saturday, June 14, through Sunday, June 22. James said the hotline will be available to troubleshoot and resolve a range of issues encountered by voters, including issues voting […]