BY JACQUELINE CHARLES | MARTA OLIVER CRAVIOTTO, Miami Herald Jamaica’s economy is growing at a pace consistent enough to attract foreign investment, experts say. Just seven years ago, Jamaica was an economic basket case. The government was bleeding so much red ink it couldn’t fix potholes or keep streetlights on as it faced a staggering $20 […]
Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – Jamaica says it believes a partnership approach is required in order to generate the type of response needed to create long-term mobilisation of the financial resources small island developing states (SIDS) […]
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View of the mass destruction by Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island in the Bahamas. (Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten) NASSAU, The Bahamas, Monday September 16, 2019 – United Nations Secretary General has described the Hurricane Dorian which unleashed deadly power on the Bahamian islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama as more like a “Category […]
BY GEORGE JOSEPH & ALI WINSTON, Gothamist On a late March night in 2016, Jeremy Turnbull stood outside a friend’s apartment building in the Bronx’s Morris Heights neighborhood. Turnbull, then 25 years old, was frustrated. He had taken a cab to pick up his girlfriend and persuaded the driver to wait until she came outside. As Turnbull […]
By Drew Johnson It’s been a rough summer for Americans battling chronic diseases. The Trump administration scrapped a proposal that would have reformed the prescription drug supply chain and saved patients billions of dollars. Now, the administration is trying to impose price controls on drugs administered through Medicare. The president had it right the first […]
By Erin Telesford
The greatest financial crisis in the United States was last recession which spanned from December 2007 to June 2009. During this time, unemployment rates were raised by about 6.1% resulting in a loss of consumer spending and business investments. Before the recession, many Americans bought houses using mortgages they couldn’t afford, eventually causing them to […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – DECEMBER 1,2018: Normani Kordei attends the 2018 WiLD 94.9’s FM’s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California – Image By Brooklyn White, Bitch Media Music critics and listeners alike give Black pop stars hell—especially when they’re women. Jarring criticisms, unfair comparisons, and impossible standards plague the […]
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — GENEVA, Switzerland – Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, 10 September, 2019. I am humbled to have been invited to deliver the 16th lecture to honor this great development thinker. I am also deeply humbled to […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Signs A8278 alongside Assemblyman David I. Weprin, Senators Andrew Gounardes, James Gaughran & Joseph P. Addabbo and Assemblymembers Peter J. Abbate Jr., Stacey Pheffer Amato & Karin Reyes, as well as Patrick Lynch, President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, and the family of the late Det. Luis Alvarez. QUEENS, NEW YORK – […]
Singer Rihanna attends the ‘Okja’ photo-call during the 70th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2017 in Cannes, France. – Cannes, France – May 19 (Shutterstock) By Alyssa Bailey, MSN What kind of look did Rihanna, host of her charity Diamond Ball, opt for tonight in New York City? A very fall-ready turtleneck evening gown. […]