By Gene Johnson, AP News SEATTLE (AP) — Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks. The company’s announcement came one week after The Associated Press reported on a leaked Border Patrol memo confirming that agents can’t board […]
Love is Living Our Values Equally
For immediate release Hassan Ghanny hello@hassanghanny.me Caribbean Equality Project info@caribbeanequalityproject.org This weekend in Queens, Caribbean love will take center stage – with equal portions of callaloo and liberation served on the side. Queens-based Caribbean Equality Project will host the event L.O.V.E. (Living Our Values Equally) on Saturday, February 22 at the Jamaica Center for […]
In an exclusive Op-Ed, Bernie Sanders explains why black women will benefit from Medicare for all.
By Sen. Bernie Sanders It is impossible for any rational person to deny that our current healthcare system is dysfunctional and cruel. As a nation, we spend more than twice as much on health care as the people of almost every major country on earth while achieving worse outcomes. Even worse, Black Americans see only […]
(Guyana Chronicle) – Guyana’s first million barrels of light crude from the Stabroek Block set sail to the United States. The crude began the voyage in the crude oil tanker, the Yannis P, and is bound for the U.S. Gulf Coast in Galveston, Texas. The Liza crude, a light-sweet grade, was taken from the Liza […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday February 17, 2020 – When Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government meet in Barbados this week, issues ranging from current public health concerns to strengthening ties with Africa will be on their agenda. The two-day 31st Inter-Sessional Meeting, under the Chairmanship of Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley, is expected to deliberate on […]
By Lisa Steadwell I grew up with my grandmother from the age of 6. She stepped into my life when my mother suffered a mental breakdown and was ultimately institutionalized. Both my brother (currently deceased) and I were going to be handed over to the foster care system if she didn’t. To date, I am […]
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Jamaican reggae star and Grammy Award winner Koffee is set to make her debut at the 2020 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of the world’s most popular music festivals. The 2020 staging of the festival will be held in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert area in California at the Empire Polo […]
NEW YORK CITY – NOVEMBER 30 2017: US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders joined Mayor Bill de Blasio & Chirlane McCray to support the mayor’s bid for re-election. (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON – New York City Mayor and former presidential candidate Bill de Blasio on Friday endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. The Mayor will join Sanders in […]
Alsion Wilson-Roach, Consul General of Jamaica to New York (center), joins the award-winning JTB team of Philip Rose, Regional Director, Northeast USA and Marcia Sinclair, District Sales Manager, Northeast USA on the red carpet to celebrate their win at the 2020 Travvys in midtown Manhattan NEW YORK, NY – February 14, 2020 – Jamaica captured three […]
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Guyana’s President David Granger presents Barbados’ Prime Minister and CARICOM Chairman, Mia Mottley, with Guyana’s Order of Roraima. GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been conferred the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second-highest national award, for her dedication and demonstrated commitment and contribution towards the strengthening of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The national […]