15,000 educators across the region, will have the opportunity to benefit from capacity building in key components of the Learning Recovery and Enhancement Program (Let’s REAP) for Caribbean Schools, an intervention designed to address the learning loss that occurred or worsened due to COVID-19. Launched in July 2021, Let’s REAP was developed by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), […]
Refugee camp, hundreds of thousands of difficult conditions, Somali immigrants are staying. African people waiting to get in the water. August 06, 2011 in Dadaab, Somalia. (Shutterstock) By Nisar Majid, The Conversation Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of enormous severity and magnitude. This follows four failed rainy seasons, protracted conflict, political instability and the […]
Kyiv, Ukraine – January 10, 2022: Girl with political banner “Say No To Putin” at winter street protest rally. By Sir Ronald Sanders “Every bullet, every bomb, every shell that hits a target in Ukraine, hits our pockets and our economies in Africa.” Those were the words of the President of Ghana, Akufo-Addo, at the […]
By Jeffrey M. Sturek and Alexandra Kadl, The Conversation “I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19 tell us this even months after their initial diagnosis. Though they may have survived the most […]
New York, NY / USA – December 17 2018: Stuyvesant High School. The most selective of the specialized high schools in the NYC public school system. (Shutterstock) By Amy Zimmer, Chalkbeat For many New York City parents, the move during the pandemic to virtual school board meetings meant they could attend without having to scramble […]
AG James Leads Coalition Pushing to Protect NYC Law Requiring Just Cause to Fire Workers at Fast-Food Restaurants
New York, NY – August 23, 2022: New York State AG Letitia James casts her vote in Democratic primaries at P.S. 11 School. (Shutterstock) NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James continued her efforts to stand up for workers’ rights, leading a coalition of 15 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief to […]
The Consulate General of Saint Lucia in New York joins the Saint Lucia House Foundation and members of the New York Saint Lucian community in honoring the life and many contributions of fellow Saint Lucian, Kenny Phillip, who died suddenly on Friday, September 23, at his home in Brooklyn. Jeremiah Hyacinth, Saint Lucia’s Consul General […]
Monday’s chaotic meetings ended with the party leader winning with just 23 of 44 executive committee votes.
By George Joseph and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY Brooklyn Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn secured reelection as party boss with a narrow victory in a closed executive session, after a day of heated public deliberations marred by allegations of “ghost” appointments to the County Committee of people with no idea they’d been added. In a packed […]
A press statement from the media centre of the OECS says Canadian authorities are investigating “recent press reports about alleged challenges faced by women participating in the programme on a farm in Nova Scotia”. The OECS statement promises that the “outcome of due process would be communicated at the appropriate time”. Calls have also been […]
KM2 Solutions, a leader in nearshore business process outsourcing with contact centers across the Caribbean and Latin America, is pleased to announce further expansion to its Caribbean operations. As a result of the increased demand for high-quality English language contact center solutions, KM2 will be increasing its footprint in Barbados, Grenada, and St. Lucia. This […]