By Anastasia Tomkin, City Limits Originally published here. While city officials cited the importance of restrooms for all residents of the city, highlighting the needs of young children and older New Yorkers, homeless people also rely heavily on public bathrooms, but face particular difficulty in accessing them, experts and advocates say. Mayor Eric Adams’ announcement […]
Editorial credit: guteksk7 / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today issued a consumer alert warning New Yorkers about increasingly common online scams in which fraudsters use dating apps, social media, and unsolicited text messages to befriend their victims and then convince them to make fraudulent investments. These online romance scams […]
Editorial credit: Mark Roger Bailey / Shutterstock.com By Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNN Hourly retail security workers are now wearing police-like body cameras at major stores. Retail giant TJX, the parent of TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, said it’s equipping some store employees with body cameras to thwart shoplifting and keep customers and employees safe. TJX finance […]
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Editorial credit: Roberto Galan / Shutterstock.com By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Immigration Impact On June 4, President Biden issued a sweeping order under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act claiming that allows him to “suspend the entry” of most migrants who cross the border between ports of entry, echoing a similar order issued by President Trump in November 2018. Like […]
Photo courtesy: PAHO By PAHO Washington, DC, June 5, 2024 – Under the umbrella of the Alliance for Primary Health Care (A4PHC), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) convened a two-day interactive event, the Caribbean Health Financing Forum, this week to explore avenues for strengthening health financing in the Caribbean. […]
Narendra Modi. Editorial credit: photocosmos1 / Shutterstock.com By Sumit Ganguly | The Conversation India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election – the largest display of democracy, by far, in a year of voting around the world. But with results still coming in on June 4, 2024, […]
By The White House During National Caribbean American Heritage Month, we celebrate the contributions and the diverse cultures of the millions of people across our Nation with Caribbean heritage, who have never let us walk away from our Nation’s most sacred values of opportunity and freedom. Caribbean Americans are dreamers and doers, always finding ways […]
By Sir Ronald Sanders | Barbados Today On May 21, 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its Advisory Opinion on climate change and international law, in a case led by two courageous leaders of Small Island States, Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda and former Prime Minister […]
The entrance to Rikers Island on Hazen Street in Queens, Jan. 21, 2019. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Reuven Blau In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration pushed through a new rule allowing jail staff to eavesdrop on detainees’ phone calls. Seventeen years later, a city lawmaker now wants to make it illegal again to listen to and […]