Photo: Mr Biden with Shekar Narasimhan, who says he supports the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election By Vineet Khare, BBC News It was 14 December, 2012, when news broke of a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Indian-American investment banker Shekar Narasimhan recalls that he was at the White House for […]
The four companies known as Big Tech — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — now have more than 22,000 employees in the city, with thousands added just this year.
By Matthew Haag, NY Times Facebook has just leased enough new office space in Manhattan to nearly triple its current local workforce, including at one of the city’s most iconic buildings, the 107-year-old former main post office complex near Pennsylvania Station. Apple, which set up its first office in New York a decade ago, is […]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Georgia, Atlanta USA March 6, 2020. (Shutterstock) By AOL Months of mixed messages, political pressure and public gaffes about COVID-19 have caused morale at the Centers for Disease Control to turn “toxic,” say four current and two former CDC staffers, with one saying the election could be a “tipping point” for a mass […]
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Thousands more young children living in public housing were potentially exposed to lead poisoning than originally thought, officials revealed Thursday. The city’s public housing authority has determined that the number of apartments believed contaminated with lead paint that house children under age 6 is triple the number it previously […]
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Both landlord and tenant advocates say the solution is a tenant bailout in the form of a rental assistance voucher program.
Landlord Surya Hariprasad sits outside her Bronx building, Oct. 15, 2020. Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY Surya Davie Hariprasad scrounged to pay the mortgage of her Bronx home after she, her daughter and their only tenant upstairs were stricken with coronavirus in March. For two months, nobody in their two-family house could work […]
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley opens the inaugural Pivot Event by urging the people of the Caribbean to harness their cultural confidence and creative imagination to allow the region to secure its place as a world leader in technology and innovation.
By David L. Di Maria, The Conversation In an effort to crack down on international students and scholars who overstay their visas, the Trump administration is seeking to implement a new set of rules that would make it more difficult for them to remain in the U.S. Among other things, the proposed rules would require […]
By OECS Op-ed by Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Monday, October 19, 2020 — The digital economy, connectivity and the possibilities offered by remote work have emerged as a shelter from the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic for many social and economic sectors of Latin America and […]
By WiredJA KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 16, 2020: Opposition spokesperson on Technology, Julian Robinson, has renewed his call for the Government to engage in mediation with tablet device provider GeoTech, who brought in 19,000 tablets which the Government had labelled defective and not meeting their specifications. Mr Robinson’s call comes against the background that the […]