Mayoral candidate Eric Adams thanks 32BJ SEIU union volunteers and essential workers after landing most 1st place votes in Democratic Party primaries at union headquarters. – New York, NY – Jun 25, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding, NY Post Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams declared his opposition to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist […]
Beginning September 13th, City will require proof of vaccination or weekly COVID-19 tests for all city workers. City also makes official call to private sector to enact vaccine and test mandates at all offices, workplaces, and facilities.
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner (DOHMH) Dr. Dave A. Chokshi and NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) President and CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz today announced a new health care mandate requiring all city workers to provide one-time proof of vaccination or weekly COVID-19 tests beginning September 13th. In […]
NYPD responds to a student stabbing at the Corona Civic Leadership Academy high school. Sergeant in the School Safety Division with responding officer. – Elmhurst, NY / United States – November 8 2018 (Shutterstock) By Jen Chung, Gothamist The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has charged an NYPD sergeant with assault and attempted assault during two […]
Elmhurst Hospital NYC Fireman show their appreciation for healthcare workers during the pandemic. – Queens, New York/USA April 2, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Alex Zimmerman, THE CITY After announcing that certain healthcare workers would be required to get vaccinated or submit to weekly coronavirus testing, Mayor Bill de Blasio is now considering the same for other […]
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that the City of New York will host concerts in each of the five boroughs—between August 14th to 22nd—as part of NYC Homecoming Week and to celebrate the Summer of New York City. The concerts will be held: Monday, August 16th at Orchard Beach in The Bronx Tuesday, August 17th at Richmond […]
Beginning August 2, City will require proof of vaccination or weekly COVID-19 tests for employees at city-run health care facilities.
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi and NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Dr. Mitchell Katz today announced the Health Worker COVID-Safe Requirement. Beginning August 2, the City will require employees of NYC Health + Hospitals and employees working in Department of Health and […]
Prime Minister Ariel Henry, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. | Photo: Twitter/ @MiQuiquella By BBC Ariel Henry has been sworn in as Haiti’s new prime minister, nearly two weeks after the assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moïse. The late president asked Mr Henry to take the job, days before he was gunned down in the capital, Port-au-Prince. […]
Following the appointment of a senior Caribbean diplomat to the cabinet of the new World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Director-General, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, CARICOM Chairman Prime Minister Gaston Browne has commended the Director-General for living up to promises she made to both the OECS and CARICOM Heads of Governments. Ambassador Stephen Fevrier, who heads the OECS […]
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on stage at the Miramar Cultural Center. He spoke to a capacity audience about Haiti’s progress during his first year in office. – Miramar, Florida/USA – April 15, 2018 (Shutterstock) By BBC The widow of Haiti’s assassinated president has returned to the Caribbean nation after being treated in Florida for wounds […]
By WiredJA News Team, WiredJA BRIDGETOWN, Barbados July 18, 2021 -The Government of Barbados has called on the United States Government to show moral leadership and end the sixty year old economic embargo imposed on the the People of Cuba, as the embargo has achieved nothing but an unjustified punishment of Cuba and unleashed a […]