NEW YORK,  – New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday announced that the ruling she secured striking down the former administration’s attempt to deny food assistance to nearly 700,000 Americans, including Caribbean immigrants, by changing the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), will continue to have the force and effect of law following the dismissal of the federal government’s appeal from that ruling.

NEW YORK, CMC – Barbadian-born Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, the first president of the newly-formed Caribbean American Lawyers Association (CALA), has been bestowed the Hon. Theodore “Ted” Jones Lifetime Achievement Award by New York’s Unified Court System’s Committee to Celebrate Black History Month, The Tribune Society, Inc., and the Judicial Friends Association.

MIAMI-DADE – Throughout the month of February, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Eileen Higgins, District 5, in collaboration with World Central Kitchen (WCK), distributed over 3,640 meals to seniors in District 5 as part of WCK’s #ChefsForAmerica nationwide emergency food relief program to District 5. Over the last four weeks, Commissioner Higgins has facilitated food distributions in senior buildings in Little Havana and Miami Beach, and added WCK program into her monthly drive-through distribution at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium.

NEW YORK,  – An umbrella immigration policy and advocacy organization in New York has welcomed the passage in the United States House of Representatives two ground-breaking pieces of legislation that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated four million undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants.

The Hon. Mr. Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart OJ, CD, Hon. LLD, has been honored with the Government of Saint Lucia’s third highest honor, the Saint Lucia Cross (SLC) Award. 

Caribbean diaspora contributions to the United States take the spotlight as the curtains come down on February as  Black History Month, with Dr. Julius Garvey – son of Jamaica's first national hero, Marcus Garvey –set to key note a virtual Black History Month forum on February 28.

MIAMI, CMC -The Archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, has written an open letter appealing to US federal authorities to refrain from deporting Haitians.

 New York/CMM….Team Jamaica Bickle, (TJB) has named Dr. Kristal McGreggor to the Board of Directors of the organization.  She succeeds long-standing member of TJB, Oswald Hancle, who sadly passed away late last year. A former student and athlete of the St. Andrew High School for Girls, where she was a member of the Track and Field team and captain of the Basketball team, Dr. McGreggor’s distinguished journey began at the Bronx Community College.  She then obtained a full athletic scholarship to the illustrious Hampton University.

The David “Wagga” Hunt Scholarship Foundation (DWF) is getting high marks from Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States for providing students in dire need in Jamaica with vital lifeline.

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Consulate General of Jamaica, New York (CGNY) has recognized Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, stating that she is among “some remarkable women, who have demonstrated leadership in advancing our sustainable development agenda, as a people and as a nation.”

WASHINGTON DC,  - Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States Audrey Marks kicked off her town hall style, online meeting with the diaspora on Thursday March 4^th 2021,by assuring Jamaicans that the government is working aggressively to implement all aspects of the Plan Secure Jamaica initiative, aimed at dealing with the crime problem facing the country.

WASHINGTON - Dr. Gail C. Christopher today delivered a critical message on racial healing to the nation, celebrating the 5th Annual National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH). Dr. Christopher, one of the nation’s leading advocates for racial healing, called on America to jettison racism and the false hierarchy of human value.