MIAMI-DADE – Today (Feb. 13), legislation proposed by Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava to extend earned family and sick leave to employees of businesses who do work with Miami-Dade County was deferred in committee. 

MIAMI-DADE – The Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners today (Feb. 4) passed legislation directing the County Attorney to evaluate legal options to bring claims against manufacturers of certain chemicals known as PFAS, which are pervasive in our environment and were used in common household products and industrial fire suppressants.

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), an agency of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport celebrated the 63rd anniversary of the birth of the late Reggae singerDennis Emmanuel Brown, CDon Saturday, February 1, with a cultural gathering at his resting place at the National Heroes Park in Kingston.

NEW YORK – Immigrant rights advocates in New York have filed the first United States federal lawsuit seeking to jointly block three interrelated “public charge” rules promulgated by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump administration against Caribbean and other immigrants.

HAMILTON, Bermuda – A Bermudian man remained in a Florida jail up to late last month after he was charged with killing his mother as he celebrated his 28th birthday with his parents. Police said he had intended to shoot his father.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States has told Trinidad and Tobago nationals with expunged drug convictions they may not necessarily be granted a visa to visit the North American country.

An American man with Guyanese roots has been charged with the stabbing of five Orthodox Jews at a rabbi’s Hanukkah party in New York.

Several Caribbean roots Britons have been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as part of her 2020 New Year’s honors.

LONDON, England – A 23-year-old Jamaican medical student won the “Miss World” competition here last month.

TALLAHASSEE – The 2020 Governor’s Baseball Dinner, a celebration of a new season of Major League Baseball Spring Training in Florida, will be held Sunday, February 16, at CoolToday Park, the Spring Training Home of the Atlanta Braves, in North Port.

Washington, DC - Haiti's Evens Charles, Jamaica's Donnette A. Cooper, Esq. and Guyana's Andre Fenton, PhD are honorees for prestigious awards at the 26th Caribbean American Heritage (CARAH) Awards Gala, on November 22nd, organized by the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS). 

NEW YORK – A Guyanese national, who was twice released with an active detainer following his detention for crimes against children, has again been arrested pending deportation from the United States to his homeland.