BY JACQUELINE CHARLES | MARTA OLIVER CRAVIOTTO, Miami Herald Jamaica’s economy is growing at a pace consistent enough to attract foreign investment, experts say. Just seven years ago, Jamaica was an economic basket case. The government was bleeding so much red ink it couldn’t fix potholes or keep streetlights on as it faced a staggering $20 […]
Prime Minister Andrew Holness of Jamaica addresses the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly. UN Photo/Cia Pak UNITED NATIONS (CMC) – Jamaica says it believes a partnership approach is required in order to generate the type of response needed to create long-term mobilisation of the financial resources small island developing states (SIDS) […]
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View of the mass destruction by Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island in the Bahamas. (Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten) NASSAU, The Bahamas, Monday September 16, 2019 – United Nations Secretary General has described the Hurricane Dorian which unleashed deadly power on the Bahamian islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama as more like a “Category […]
BY GEORGE JOSEPH & ALI WINSTON, Gothamist On a late March night in 2016, Jeremy Turnbull stood outside a friend’s apartment building in the Bronx’s Morris Heights neighborhood. Turnbull, then 25 years old, was frustrated. He had taken a cab to pick up his girlfriend and persuaded the driver to wait until she came outside. As Turnbull […]
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — GENEVA, Switzerland – Honourable Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, delivers the 16th Raúl Prebisch Lecture at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday, 10 September, 2019. I am humbled to have been invited to deliver the 16th lecture to honor this great development thinker. I am also deeply humbled to […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Signs A8278 alongside Assemblyman David I. Weprin, Senators Andrew Gounardes, James Gaughran & Joseph P. Addabbo and Assemblymembers Peter J. Abbate Jr., Stacey Pheffer Amato & Karin Reyes, as well as Patrick Lynch, President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, and the family of the late Det. Luis Alvarez. QUEENS, NEW YORK – […]
NEW YORK, USA – SEP 07, 2014: Memorial Complex to the victims of September 11, 2001 on the spot where stood the twin towers – Shutterstock Image By CBS New York NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Today, New York City and the nation marked 18 years since the September 11th terror attacks. A somber ceremony was held this morning […]
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 26, 2019: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION headquarters building sign with building exterior. – Shutterstock Image By Yoav Gonen and Alex Zimmerman, THE CITY City education officials have allowed more than a thousand students with disabilities to languish without services for months — despite orders from administrative hearing officers, according to advocates who […]
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(Left to right): Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra, Colombia’s President Ivan Duque, Ecuador’s President Ivan Moreno, Suriname’s Vice President Michael Ashwin Adhin and Minister Trotman in Letecia, Colombia at the historic signing LETECIA, Colombia, Monday September 9, 2019 – Guyana has joined six other Amazonian countries […]
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NEW YORK, United States (IPS) – The global fight against AIDS is floundering amid cash shortfalls and spikes in new HIV infections among marginalized groups in developing regions, Gunilla Carlsson, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), said yesterday. Speaking with reporters in New York at UN headquarters, Carlsson, head of UN-led […]