NYC Comptroller Report Finds 1,000+ Buildings with Chronic Lack of Heat Over Past 5 Years; City Failed to Enforce Action in 25% of Those Buildings

NYC Comptroller Report Finds 1,000+ Buildings with Chronic Lack of Heat Over Past 5 Years; City Failed to Enforce Action in 25% of Those Buildings

New York, NY USA – November 3, 2022 : Fire trucks and an ambulance responding to an apartment fire on the second-to-top floor at the NYCHA Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, New York City. (Shutterstock) New York, NY – In a new report, “Turn Up the Heat,” issued on the one-year anniversary of the tragic Twin Parks […]

Marijuana Use Spills Into NYC Classrooms as Educators Grapple With New Cannabis Landscape

Marijuana Use Spills Into NYC Classrooms as Educators Grapple With New Cannabis Landscape

By Michael Elsen-Rooney, Chalkbeat, THE CITY The Manhattan 16-year-old started smoking weed to get over a bad breakup, initially keeping the habit outside school hours. Soon, though, he was using marijuana to address other mental health issues, like depression that suppressed his appetite and anxiety that made it difficult to go to class. He began […]

Will the North American Leadership Summit Result in Substantive Immigration Policy Change?

Will the North American Leadership Summit Result in Substantive Immigration Policy Change?

President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. (White House Photo) By Sunita Sohrabji President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Jan. 10 to discuss the U.S.-Mexico-Canada relationship. The meeting focused […]

NYC Nurse Strike Ends as NYSNA Declares Historic Victories at Montefiore and Mount Sinai (NYSNA statement)

NYC Nurse Strike Ends as NYSNA Declares Historic Victories at Montefiore and Mount Sinai (NYSNA statement)

Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in New York continue to strike on 2nd day as negotiation still on between administration and union on January 10, 2023 (Shutterstock) New York, NY—NYC nurses strike for safe staffing to end this morning in historic victory as tentative deals reached with both Montefiore Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital. Nurses […]

The First Annual Lowell F. Hawthorne Awards Ceremony

The First Annual Lowell F. Hawthorne Awards Ceremony

PHOTO CAPTION – Lowell F. Hawthorne- Photo courtesy of the Hawthorne family. PHOTO CAPTION – Lorna Hawthorne- Photo courtesy of Coche Productions The First Annual Lowell F. Hawthorne Awards Ceremony will be presented live as a virtual streaming event on Thursday January 19 beginning at 7pm EST. Hosted by The Lowell F. Hawthorne Foundation Inc. […]

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso Delivers 2023 State of the Borough After History-making First Year in Office

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso Delivers 2023 State of the Borough After History-making First Year in Office

Photo Courtesy: Brooklyn Brough President Office BROOKLYN, NY (January 10, 2023) – Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso tonight delivered Brooklyn’s first State of the Borough address in nearly ten years at New York City College of Technology. The Borough President was joined by Brooklyn’s own Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who also gave remarks, Mayor Eric […]

A Child or Youth Died Once Every 4.4 Seconds in 2021 – UN Report

A Child or Youth Died Once Every 4.4 Seconds in 2021 – UN Report

NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C., 10 January 2023 – An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME). In a separate report […]

TOP 10 CGTI Chartered Director Graduates for 2022

TOP 10 CGTI Chartered Director Graduates for 2022

The Caribbean Governance Training Institute (CGTI) – the #1 board governance training institute in the Caribbean Region – is pleased to announce the TOP TEN graduates of our internationally acclaimed, ‘flagship’ CHARTERED DIRECTOR PROGRAM for 2022, thereby bringing the total number of CGTI graduates to over 4,000. The TOP 10 List of Chartered Directors for […]

Grenada Represents Eight Of The Contest Winners In The 2023 USA Today 10 Best – Readers’ Choice Awards

Grenada Represents Eight Of The Contest Winners In The 2023 USA Today 10 Best – Readers’ Choice Awards

St. George’s, Grenada – January 10th, 2023 – The Grenada Tourism Authority is pleased to announce that Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique have once again earned recognition in the USA Today 10 Best – Readers’ Choice Awards representing eight contest winners in the 2023 nominations. Readers’ Choice Awards are important honors in the travel industry as it celebrates […]

Nobel Laureate Festival 2023 Launched

Nobel Laureate Festival 2023 Launched

St. Lucia has begun its thirtieth commemoration of the Nobel Laureate Festival which celebrates the life and legacy of Nobel Laureates Sir Arthur Lewis and Sir Derek Walcott. The theme this year is “Creating Excellence, Nurturing our Creativity, Consolidating our Legacy”. In an address during the launch, the Chairperson of the Nobel Laureates Festival Committee […]