NEW YORK, New York – New York Governor Kathy Hochul has extended an executive order that provides the state with greater flexibility to procure the resources necessary for municipalities to support asylum seekers and provide them with humanitarian aid.
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WASHINGTON, DC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is calling for dialog between the United States and the Community of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAC) on what he describes as “a range of matters touching and concerning the political interests of both”.
NEW YORK, New York – New York City Mayor Eric Adams has posthumously awarded a “Key to the City of New York” to legendary Caribbean performer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte for his decades of entertainment in music, film, theater and television.
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Jamaican superstars Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson both suffered stunning defeats on Monday, when eccentric American Sha’Carri Richardson upset them to win the women’s 100 title at the World Athletics Championship.
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Rising star Oblique Seville narrowly missed out on a World Athletics Championships medal for the second year running, when he finished fourth in the men’s 100 meters final on day two of the Budapest showpiece on Sunday.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says almost half of the internally displaced persons in Haiti’s capital have had to leave their temporary accommodations in host communities and now reside in vulnerable conditions in improvised sites, nearly doubling the figure from the end of 2022.
WASHINGTON, DC – United States President Joseph Biden has bestowed the US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award on Trinidadian Hazra Ali.
NEW YORK, New York – The Democratic leader in the United States House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, and a high-level Biden administration official , are expected to address a conference on Guyana next month, the New York-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has announced.
NEW YORK, New York – New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, has questioned the Eric Adams administration’s new 60-day shelter stay limit for adult migrants and refugees.
MELBOURNE, Australia – Jamaica’s quest to create even more history at the FIFA Women’s World Cup ended here Tuesday when they bowed out of the tournament with a 1-0 defeat to Colombia in the round-of-16.
NASSAU, Bahamas – Former Bahamian prime minister, Dr Hubert Minnis is calling for a parliamentary debate ahead of The Bahamas sending said military personnel to Haiti as part of a multi-national force to bring peace and stability to the island.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Organization of American States (OAS) has welcomed Kenya’s willingness to play a leading role in sending an international force to Haiti, as escalating violence between armed gangs and police in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country is fueling a humanitarian crisis that has displaced tens of thousands of people.
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has welcomed the decision by Kenya to lead a multinational force into Haiti as escalating violence between armed gangs and police in Haiti is fueling a humanitarian crisis that has displaced tens of thousands of people.