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READ CARIBBEAN TODAY ONLINE AT CARIBBEANTODAY.COM 2 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years NEWS Regional Caribbean News Round Up Here’s a synopsis of all the major the recent murder of a young Marijuana Decriminalization Caribbean news from the region woman, Prime Minister Andrew Committee has confirmed that you can use: Holness has sought to assure that proposed legislation looking the government is working to towards decriminalizing is REGIONAL develop further strategies and put presently before the Cabinet of The University of the West in place impactful policies to deal Ministers for discussion. The next Indies (The UWI) is set to float decisively with violence. step will be public consultation. a US$60 million-dollar bond on Holness was responding to Agriculture Minister Peter the Trinidad & Tobago Stock a statement on tackling violence, David is one of three members Exchange. The goal is to get out made by Minister of Culture, tasked with coming up with the of financial trouble according Gender, Entertainment and Sport best way Grenada can enforce to Vice-chancellor Professor Sir Olivia Grange, in the House of aspects of the CARICOM’s Hilary Beckles. Representatives, triggered by the Marijuana commission report. It is the first time UWI has murder of 20-year-old accounting In December 2020, Grenada gone to the capital market – in its clerk, Khanice Jackson. Prime Minister, Dr. Keith 73-year history. The money raised The PM informed that the Mitchell, in a public meeting will be used to build a state-of- National Commission for Violence locally, said the country will the-art offshore medical school Prevention that he empaneled develop its own model for in the twin-island state, a move The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is set to float a US$60 million dollar in 2019 has started its work and cultivating, distribution, supplying bond on the Trinidad & Tobago Stock Exchange. which could lead to more than 25 recently presented its national and use of marijuana as it moves per cent of The UWI’s revenue inconsistently.” dollar. strategic plan to him, which he has forward to enforce an aspect of the moving forward. And in St. Kitts & Nevis, “Bitt is very proud to provide approved. Marijuana Commission report. In addition, there is a plan the US report pointed to media the ECCB with our full stack of The Commission, which The hope is that marijuana use for The UWI’s Open Campus to and private citizens reporting digital currency management is chaired by internationally for recreational purposes will be expand significantly by increasing on government corruption systems to enhance the financial renowned researcher Professor decriminalized and or legalized. its enrollment from 8 000 students “occasionally” even as citizens services within their member Maureen Samms-Vaughan, is to 80 000 over a short period, “expressed concern about the lack countries,” said CEO of Bitt, Brian mandated to conduct a continuing TRINIDAD & TOBAGO which could also bring in millions of financial oversight of revenues Popelka. “The past two years of comprehensive review of all A Caribbean businessman is over the next three years. It’s all in generated by the Citizenship by this partnership have developed existing public and private now facing two sexual offences the push to become less dependent Investment (CBI) program.” from intense consultations violence prevention programs against a minor. on regional governments and a But the US report also between the Bitt team and the as well as the strategies of the Trinidad & Tobago player as a commercial entity. pointed out that the St. Kitts & ECCB to our team supporting the Government. businessman Emile Elias, Nevis Timothy Harris government ECCB.” Its purpose is to identify executive chairman of NH EASTERN CARIBBEAN introduced security measures in DCash, considered legal gaps in the prevention and International (Caribbean Ltd)., is The US government 2018 to make the CBI process tender, is a real-time payment intervention services and to make accused of sexual grooming and has cited the Citizenship by more transparent and began option available within the recommendations with respect sexual penetration of a 17-year-old Investment Program in three vetting investors. Eastern Caribbean Currency to violence prevention and girl. Caribbean countries for “lack of Though the report noted that Union (ECCU) and offers a safer, intervention program. The offences were alleged transparency” in the latest Human “the government did not publicize faster, cheaper method for making to have taken place between Rights Report released Tuesday. the number of passports issued payments and sending/receiving ARUBA September 1, 2019, and November In the ‘Corruption and Lack through CBI or the nationalities of funds to and from other DCash The Prime Minister of 30, 2019. Elias, 84, is accused of of Transparency in Government,’ the passport holders.” users and merchants. the Dutch Caribbean Island of meeting with the then 17-year-old section, the 2020 report identifies The CIP Programs in the Consumers can access it via Aruba, Evelyn Weaver-Croes has girl between September 1 and the CIP programs in Antigua & Eastern Caribbean countries the official App, the DCash Wallet, resigned. November 30, 2019 with the intent Barbuda, Dominica and St. Kitts have been a source of continued and conduct financial transactions Weaver-Croes, the island’s of grooming her for penetration. & Nevis as citizen concerns on criticism by the US and many using their smart devices. DCash first female prime minister who On November 21, 2019, it oversight and corruption due to a nationals locally who question can be obtained from participating came into power in November is alleged that Elias, of Fairways lack of openness. the use of “donation” funds that commercial banks, credit unions 2017, resigned after prosecutors Maraval, penetrated the child. In Antigua & Barbuda, are part of the attractive offer or other authorized institutions. announced an investigation into After the charges were laid on the US pointed to reports of for a second passport in these Consumers can sign up one of the parties making up her March 10, 2021, Elias was granted government corruption by the jurisdictions and visa free travel to to use DCash, either through a ruling coalition for suspected station bail of $100,000 at the media and private citizens between 152 and 162 countries. participating financial institution embezzlement of funds. A West End Police Station. He will including the September 2020 or via an authorized DCash agent. government statement said next appear before a Port of Spain clash of Prime Minister Gaston EASTERN CARIBBEAN The ECCB said it launched Parliament has been dissolved Magistrate on March 24th. Browne and a prominent member The Eastern Caribbean the DCash pilot to address the and a new date for elections will He was warned about the of his political party, who traded Central Bank (ECCB) digital issues of the relatively high cost be announced shortly. However, penalties of leaving the country public and specific accusations currency, DCash, has been of current payment methods and Wever-Croes will handle pending and not appearing in court. Elias of corruption in government launched, starting with Antigua banking services; inadequacy of government business, including has insisted he is innocent. In procurement and other areas that and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Kitts banking services in addressing the fallout of the coronavirus a media statement through his neither person refuted. and Nevis, and St. Lucia. the needs of various customers; pandemic, until a new government publicist, Alfred Aguiton, he said In Dominica, the US ECCB Governor Timothy and inefficient methods of settling is installed. he “looks forward to establishing report pointed to local media Antoine, in making the cheque transactions, which slow his innocence under the due and opposition leadership, who announcement, urged people to the pace of commerce. GRENADA process of law.” continue to raise allegations of get on board with this “safer, faster The objectives of the pilot Another Caribbean country is NH International is a major corruption within the government, and cheaper” form of payment. include increasing opportunities looking at decriminalizing the use Caribbean construction company including in the Citizenship by “The future of the EC dollar for financial inclusion, growth, of marijuana amid the economic that has built many major resorts Investment program and pointed is digital, so let’s make history competitiveness, and resilience for fallout from the COVID-19 including Range Developments. to the fact that while the law together,” he said. citizens of the ECCU. pandemic. On the company’s website, Elias’ provides criminal penalties for The ECCB partnered with Grenada is reportedly looking biography says he is the son of corruption by officials … the Bitt Inc to develop the securely JAMAICA to legalize the controversial herb, government implemented the law minted digital version of the EC Amid public outrage over according to local reports. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)

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Black immigrant even though it has offers TPS Everyone began crying because communities,” to nationals of Venezuela and we realized we were going to be the letter added. Myanmar. On April 1, 2021, deported. I began thinking many Ironically, another deportation flight was bad thoughts because we were Republican scheduled to leave Miami about to be returned to a country Senator Marco -loaded with undocumented that we hoped to never return to Rubio and migrants to Haiti. again.” Democratic Steven Forester, the Miami- Those are the exact words Sen. Robert based immigration policy of one Haitian immigrant who Menendez, both coordinator for the Institute for was deported within weeks with Cuban Justice and Democracy in Haiti, of President Joe Biden taking roots, have says the Biden policy contradicts office. His story and those of urged the Biden what then candidate Biden told many more are told in a new administration Haitians last year as he sought report, ‘The Invisible Wall,’ to stop the their votes. published by the Haitian Bridge deportations “President Biden when he Alliance, the Quixote Center, and given Haiti’s was in Miami said he would end the UndocuBlack Network. current state of deportations to Haiti,” Forester It comes as the Biden affairs. said. “He didn’t say, ‘There’s a administration has so far Haitians deplane after being deported back to Haiti recently. In a letter technical loophole, we’ll call it deported more Haitians in a few deporting immigrants in general said in a recent letter to President to Homeland something else and still deport weeks than the Donald Trump and Black migrants in particular. Biden, Vice President Kamala Security Secretary Mayorkas, people.’ So, he’s breaking administration did in a whole It is a euphemism for removals Harris, Secretary of State the senators called for Haitians his promise to the Haitian year; all with the use of a highly and deportation of immigrants Anthony Blinken, and US DHS in the U.S. to remain under the community. This is just another controversial Trump-era public which the Trump Administration Secretary Alex Mayorkas. Temporary Protected Status example of Haitians getting the health order, Title 42. deemed expendable in the wider “President Biden and Vice (TPS) designation. short end of the immigration At least 2,200 Haitians - context of its eugenic agenda of President Harris specifically “Haiti’s protracted political policy stick.” including hundreds of children creating a Whiter America and promised the Haitian crisis exacerbates the severe and and infants - have been deported atmosphere of nativism. The community and other immigrant prolonged humanitarian needs ~ Written by CT Staff Writer and since February 1, 2021. It comes Biden-Harris Administration communities that they would sparked by the 2010 earthquake,” compiled from multiple sources. as Haiti is in a political crisis continues to ignore the cry and build back better. We need them wrote the senators. The senators Y again, as some claim Jovenel plight of immigrants that are to take bold action, provide say the move would cover up Moise, the country’s president, being forced to board a plane and is seeking to hold extend his are taken to the very places they power illegally and create a escaped from.” dictatorship. “Since Biden’s accession to The 1944 Public Health the presidency, we’ve witnessed Service Act was invoked an increase in deportations a year ago by the Trump at a much higher rate,” Jean administration as grounds Négot Bonheur Delva, the head for summary expulsion of of Haiti’s Office of National migrants because of the Migration (ONM) told VICE. supposed health risk immigrant “For example, it used to be two asylum seekers possibly pose flights a month. But since the during the COVID pandemic. beginning of February, we’ve It gives US Immigration and had about 15 flights from the Customs Enforcement, (ICE US.” agents working for the U.S. Many Haitian asylum government, the power to seekers have been also deported suspend entry of people or goods to Mexico, where they are for public-health reasons. not from and don’t speak the And while the Biden team language. Some of these families has sought to place a moratorium reported that U.S. immigration on deportations of immigrants authorities threw away their already in the country which personal belongings after holding has been blocked by a court them in detention without a order, it has not stopped Title shower for days. 42 expulsions of newly arrived They say they did not have migrants. a chance to file for asylum, The report found the pace and now face significant risk of deportation flights to Haiti of exploitation and anti-Black in particular, had increased violence in Mexico because they dramatically. Since January 20, stand out as Black migrants. 2021, there have been more than Human Rights First is 90 deportation flights from the among rights organizations U.S. with at least 14 of them urging the Biden/Harris landing in Haiti, VICE quoted administration to restart and Jake Johnston, a senior research improve the Haitian Family associate at the Center for Reunification Parole Program Economic and Policy Research, (HFRP), including authorizing who has been tracking ICE the National Visa Center (NVC) deportation flights, as saying. to issue new invitations for “The Biden-Harris eligible petitioners to apply. Administration has continued “We continue to hope that cruelty against immigrants,” said the Biden-Harris Administration Patrice Lawrence, co-director will change course and not of the UndocuBLack Network. continue the same draconian, “We hope that this will not cruel, evil, and inhumane be their legacy. It is cruel to practices of the Trump use Title 42 as a loophole for Administration,” the organization 4 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years NEWS Pregnant Haitian Immigrant Forced To Search For Husband After Separation BY MIMI DWYER and asked about her husband, she she said. was told he was gone, she said. Montrose had no money Nehemie Montrose, a mother-to- In the Spanish she had picked and no way to communicate be from Haiti, stood anxiously up since leaving Haiti three years with him. Josue carried all of the outside a respite center for earlier, Montrose said she begged couple’s cash and their shared migrants in Del Rio, Texas, officers for help. She told them cellphone. The Del Rio center has waiting for the daily border patrol she was pregnant, that the couple no overnight capacity, so a pastor buses dropping off migrants who had planned to go to his family paid for her to say in a motel had recently crossed the U.S.- in the United States, whom she for a few nights. She called her Mexico border. had never met. How could she go husband’s phone repeatedly from For five days Montrose, 29, there without him? She said her the center, but the calls did not go had waited and watched people pleas for help went unanswered. through. get off the buses in single file. Instead, she was put on a bus While the separation of adult Again her husband, Josue Macon, and taken to the Val Verde family members in immigration is was not among them. They had Border Humanitarian Coalition not new, advocates are calling on crossed the Rio Grande river that (VVBHC), an organization that the Biden administration to fulfill separates Texas from Mexico days has been helping released migrants its promise of a more humane earlier and been taken into custody in the border town of Del Rio immigration system by allowing by U.S. border patrol agents. She and runs the respite center. She Migrants from Haiti walk across the Zaragoza-Ysleta international border families like Nehemie’s to stay had not seen him since. does not understand why she was bridge after being deported from the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. together, or reunifying those that Inside a border patrol station, released but her husband was not. (REUTERS) have been separated. the couple was separated and U.S. Customs and Border Reuters she has seen 100 people ‘I FEEL AWFUL’ Guerline Jozef, executive Josue was sent to a men’s outdoor Protection declined to comment released on average per day to the All around Montrose at director of the Haitian Bridge holding area, Nehemie said. That on the specifics of Nehemie’s case. facility since the end of February, the respite center, families were Alliance, an organization focused was the last she saw of him before It said in a statement that migrants mostly Haitian families. enjoying their first moments of on helping Black immigrants, said she was taken to the center in Del could be released pending an She said cases like freedom in the United States – under former President Donald Rio, Texas, where she now waited immigration hearing on a “case- Montrose’s, where released children rode tricycles and kicked Trump she saw cases where for any word of his whereabouts. by-case” basis, taking into migrants have no idea what has soccer balls while their parents pregnant women were released but “Every day I think my husband consideration “legal requirements, happened to family members they tried to sort out their onward their partners were detained and is coming,”Montrose said as she COVID-19 protocols, changes had been traveling with, were a travel, asking volunteers for help deported. sat outside the center on Sunday in Mexican law, U.S. holding daily occurrence. as they booked tickets to their This has left behind “a slew afternoon. “I wait so much and he capacity, and the health situation On the same day Nehemie loved ones. of single women and fatherless doesn’t come.” She clasped her of the individual.” spoke to Reuters outside the Montrose could not bring children whose fathers and palms together. She had written The Biden administration has center, a Venezuelan husband and herself to talk to anyone. Watching partners cannot do anything to be Josue’s name on one of them hammered the message that the his pregnant wife were holding couples get off the bus together reunited with their families,” she with a pen, and added a Spanish border is closed and that most vigil for his mother, who had not was particularly hard for her. said. inscription: “I miss my love. I am arriving migrants, other than been released with them. They, Her voice broke. “I feel awful By Sunday, Montrose knew suffering so much.” children traveling without legal too, hoped she would arrive on the when someone comes with their Cases like Montrose’s guardians, will be expelled from bus. Like Josue, she did not. husband and I don’t have mine,” (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5) highlight the scramble on the the country under a Trump-era ground as increasing number public health order put in place of migrants arrive at crowded to limit the spread of the novel Regional Caribbean News Round Up border patrol facilities, and U.S. coronavirus. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2) the fourth rank. Disease Control and Prevention authorities have to make swift But in practice, the (CDC) COVID-19 warning on the case-by-case calls about whom to government is releasing thousands Lebanese immigrants and “his balanced and visionary leadership CUBA country. Belize currently has over release, whom to detain and whom of migrants, mostly families, in has seen him build the leading Cuba has begun vaccinating 12,415 cases of infections and 317 to expel. Del Rio, the Rio Grande Valley, 150,000 frontline workers with deaths. and elsewhere, in part due to a construction company in Trinidad and the Eastern Caribbean.” its own vaccines as part of the The warning comes as the US change in law in one Mexican A SEPARATION Elias was granted $100,000 final phase of a clinical trial of government pointed to corruption state that limits which families the After U.S. border patrol bail by a Justice of the Peace (JP) the country’s leading COVID-19 and a lack of transparency in the United States can return. separated Montrose and her after being charged, appeared vaccine candidate amid a surge in latest Human Rights Report. husband in custody, she fell asleep Tiffany Burrow, director of virtually before Port-of-Spain cases. The report says while the for a few hours. When she awoke operations for the VVBHC, told Magistrate Adia Mohammed. The shots using the Soberana law in Belize provides criminal During the hearing, Mohammed 2 vaccine targets medical and penalties for corruption by read the charges to 84-year-old other personnel at high risk, the officials, “the government did not Elias, who was not called upon to authorities said. Soberana 2 has implement the law effectively, and plead. He is expected to reappear been in the final phase of a clinical officials often engaged in corrupt in court on May 19. trial for the past three weeks practices with impunity.” involving 44,000 volunteers from GUYANA the general population. BARBADOS Four soldiers in a CARICOM The Communist-run Barbados’ new minimum nation have been dismissed after Caribbean island nation, which has wage is now in effect, despite being charged with rape. The long experience with developing concerns expressed by the private Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and exporting vaccines, is one of sector that the timing is wrong. dismissed four ranks in relation a handful in the region that have The hourly rate is now to an allegation of rape. The GDF not started vaccinating against BDS$8.50 (US$4.25). The new also disciplined two officers. COVID, as it is counting on its minimum wage was cited in the The GDF said that it had own candidates. Official Gazette dated March 30, convened its own Board of Cuba’s drug regulatory 2021, and Prime Minister Mia Inquiry (BoI) to investigate the authority on Thursday also Mottley pointed out that there circumstances which led to the approved a second COVID-19 was consultation at every stage of allegation of rape being levelled vaccine candidate for late-stage the process. Acknowledging that against the ranks and the BOI clinical trials called Abdala. there would be adjustments and found that the ranks seriously Cuba is going through its worst consequences as a result of the breached operational orders coronavirus outbreak since the increase in the minimum wage, the and were therefore disciplined start of the pandemic after opening Prime Minister noted that history accordingly. its borders late last year. has shown that those benefitting Meanwhile, the Guyana contributed more to the economic Police Force charged and placed BELIZE activity in the country. before the court three of the The US State Department is ex-soldiers in relation to the rape warning nationals to reconsider ~ Rewritten and Compiled From allegation. The police say that travel to the CARICOM Central CMC, NewsAmericasNow.com they are awaiting advice from the American nation of Belize. and Reuters Office of the Director of Public The March 29th update to Y Prosecutions (DPP) in relation to Level 3 is due to The Centers for Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 • 5 NEWS Will A Shirley Chisholm Statue Grace Capitol Hill? Could the US Capitol see discrimination grandparents’ farm, receiving new woman” to enter the US a statue of late Caribbean and oppression, a British education while her Congress in 1969, and served American Congresswoman Chisholm’s dedication parents worked during the Great as secretary of the Democratic Shirley Chisholm? to fairness and Depression to settle the family Caucus from 1977 to 1981. Current Caribbean American equality never in Bedford-Stuyvesant”, her In addition, Chisholm Democratic Congresswoman, wavered,” she told biography says. was a founding member of Yvette D. Clarke, hopes so. the Caribbean Media Accepted to Vassar and the Congressional Black Clarke has collaborated with Corporation (CMC). Oberlin colleges, Shirley St. Hill Caucus (CBC) in 1971 and the Georgia’s newly-elected “Today, our country attended Brooklyn College on Congressional Women’s Caucus Democratic Senator, the has a Black woman scholarship and graduated cum in 1977, the biography says. Rev. Raphael Warnock, in serving in our laude with a BA in sociology in After leaving the US introducing H.R. 2198/S. 032. Executive Branch. 1946. Congress in January 1983, it The measure was previously We need to show From 1946 to 1953, the says Chisholm co-founded the introduced in the 116th United young people this is biography says Chisholm worked National Political Congress of States Congress by then Senator not something that as a nursery school teacher Black Women and campaigned Kamala Harris and Clarke, to happened by accident. and then as the director of two for Jesse Jackson’s presidential direct the Joint Committee on the It took passion daycare centers. bids in 1984 and 1988. Library to obtain a statue of late and dedication. It In 1949, she married She also taught at Mt. Late Caribbean American Congresswoman Shirley Caribbean American Democratic took someone who Chisholm Conrad Q. Chisholm, a private Holyoke College, a private Congresswoman Chisholm for was unbought and investigator, and, three years liberal arts women’s college in placement in the US Capitol. unbossed.” and outspoken personality”, later, she earned a Master of Arts South Hadley, Massachusetts, in In 1968, Chisholm, the “It is only fitting for a statue according to her biography. in early childhood education 1983. daughter of a Barbadian mother of Shirley Chisholm to reside In 1972, in a largely from Columbia University in Though nominated as US and Guyanese father, was elected in the halls of Congress, the symbolic undertaking, it says New York, according to the Ambassador to Jamaica by to represent New York’s then institution she changed forever Chisholm campaigned for biography. former US President William J. 12th Congressional District, in with her wit, passion, vision and the Democratic presidential It says she served as an (Bill) Clinton, the biography says the heart of Brooklyn, in the US determined leadership,” Rev. nomination. educational consultant for New Chisholm declined “due to ill House of Representatives. Warnock added. Shirley Anita St. Hill was York City’s Division of Day health.” In doing so, she became the Today, the United States born on November 30, 1924, in Care from 1959 to 1964. It says she settled in Palm first Black woman to serve in the Capitol houses one full-length Brooklyn. She was the oldest In 1964, Chisholm was Coast, Florida, where she US Congress. statue of a Black woman – that of four daughters of Charles elected to the New York State wrote and lectured, and died This action would become of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. St. Hill, a factory laborer from Legislature, becoming the on January 1, 2005, in Ormond the first of many firsts for Within the year, it is Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, second African-American Beach, Florida. Chisholm. In 1969, she co- expected to honor Mary McLeod a seamstress from Barbados. woman to serve in Albany, the founded the US Congressional Bethune, founder of the National “For part of her childhood, state’s capital, the biography ~ Rewritten from CMC Black Caucus; and, in 1972, she Council for Negro Women, Shirley St. Hill lived in says. Y became the first Black woman with her own full-length statue, Barbados on her maternal It says she was “the only and first Caribbean American Clarke said. woman to seek the nomination “Beyond these two statues, for President of the United States there are no current plans to from a major political party. memorialize Black women in Clarke – the daughter of this manner in the Capitol,” she Jamaican immigrants, who said. “When considering the represents the predominantly incredible contributions Black Caribbean 9th Congressional women have made to the United District in Brooklyn – said this States throughout its history paved the way for Harris’s own in the areas of government, run for the US vice presidency. medicine, science, education, Harris, now US Vice and any number of fields, an President, is the daughter of immediate need for further a Jamaican father and Indian representation in memorials mother. becomes apparent.” Beyond her legacy as The first African-American a trailblazer, Clarke said Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm’s legacy as a Anita Chisholm (1924–2005) passionate legislator left lasting represented a newly- imprints on men, women and reapportioned US House district children around the country. centered in Brooklyn. “From her efforts to expand Elected in 1968, with deep family healthcare services to her roots in the Bedford-Stuyvesant fight for a higher minimum wage neighborhood in Brooklyn, to her commitment to ensuring Chisholm was “catapulted women and minorities had the into the national limelight necessary tools to overcome by virtue of her race, gender Pregnant Haitian Immigrant Forced To Search For Husband After Separation (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3) It wasn’t clear whether he she had to leave the border. She was being held there prior to being had barely eaten for days. Her deported. pregnancy had made her prone to ICE confirmed that Josue was vomiting, and she could not keep in their custody in Mississippi but the respite center’s sandwiches did not respond to questions about down. She planned to fly the next the case. morning to Josue’s older brother in Florida who had bought her an (Reporting by Mimi Dwyer; airline ticket. Editing by Ross Colvin and Marjorie Macon, Josue’s Aurora Ellis) sister-in-law, had some news for ~ Thompson Reuters News her when she landed: Josue had Foundation called from an Immigration and Y Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. 6 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years NEWS Boston’s First Woman And First Black Mayor Is Also First With Caribbean Roots A lot has been reported already South End, which had a deep and the post. on Kim Michelle Janey, the new lasting impact on her. Janey has promised to acting mayor of Boston who She first attended New School “invest” in a “summer of has made history by being the for Children, a community opportunities” — adding that she first Black and first woman in school in Roxbury founded would partner with the school the position. But also missing by Black parents who wanted superintendent and business from the double firsts is the fact a better education for their community “to help our children that her roots also extend to the children. After attending the recover academically and Caribbean, as News Americas Ellis, Garrison, and Higginson emotionally.” has found. Schools in Boston Public She only has about five Janey, a fourth-generation Schools, in the 6th grade, Janey months to make a strong Roxbury resident, mother and went to the Edwards Middle impression before the September grandmother, has heritage that School in Charlestown during the preliminary election, and actually stretches all the way to the South second phase of desegregation has yet to declare her intentions American CARICOM nation busing. As an 11-year-old girl, to run for mayor. of Guyana. The parents of her she said she had rocks and racial Since the position was paternal grandmother were born slurs thrown at her as she’d ride created in 1822, Boston in Georgetown, Guyana. the bus to Charlestown each day. Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey is first black, first woman and first with has counted 54 mayoral Her father, Cliff Janey, grew Later, Janey attended Reading Caribbean roots. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) administrations between 46 up in the Orchard Park projects Public Schools through the White men, according to and was one of only eight METCO program, where she on behalf of children when longtime education advocate and Vitabrevis. There have been Black students to graduate from was one of two Black students in she recognized that her own non-profit leader. In 2017 she seven acting mayors prior, two of prestigious Boston Latin School her graduating class. daughter’s experiences were was elected to the Boston City whom were subsequently elected in 1964. She says on her website Janey was only 16 years old interconnected with the Council in what was another mayor, making for a total of 52 that her earliest memories are and a junior in high school when experiences of other children. history maker – out of a field of people before Janey, who have in her parent’s small apartment she became a mother to daughter Her experience of being a 13 she won and became the first served as mayor officially or in on Codman Park in Academy Kimesha. From their first Section teen mom having to fight for woman to represent District 7. an acting capacity over a 199- Homes, and she would later call 8 apartment to working multiple her daughter, paired with her Last year she became year period. Highland Park home. jobs, Janey says she always did family’s history of activism, President of the most diverse Her parents, however, divorced, what it took to take care of her made her a passionate advocate City Council in Boston’s history. ~ NewsAmericasNow.com and she revealed she spent daughter. for equity in education for all With Boston mayor Marty Walsh Y much of her youth at her great It was as a young mom, families. confirmed as United States grandmother’s house in the That Janey began her advocacy Janey built her career as a Secretary of Labor, Janey took US Insists Its Committed To Haiti Clarks Is Latest Company To crime, and to empower the PNH and the Armed Forces of Haiti (FADH) to Tap Into Brand Jamaica work in synergy to combat Jamaica may be insecurity. around 14.14 Four police officers billion U.S. were killed and eight dollars in debt, injured in an attempted but its brand is raid on the gang stronghold so renown that in the Village de Dieu major companies slum, in the capital of continue to Oort-au-Prince, where jump on to its kidnapping victims are bandwagon in often kept. Their armored order to increase vehicles and high-calibre their bottom line. automatic weapons were Counts Clarks Haitian protesters have continued to march through the streets to denounce the upsurge also seized. President footwear among in kidnappings committed by gangs and the inclinations for a new dictatorship that the Moïse denounced the acts the companies government wants to set up according to them. (Photo by REGINALD LOUISSAINT JR/AFP as “a declaration of war now appropriation- One of the new Jamaican-inspired Clarks coming out next via Getty Images) against society.” ing the country’s month. (Clarks image) The US Embassy national colors to Facing mounting criticism of its education, and agricultural in Haiti recently said a group increase its profits. chairman and CEO, replacing response to the crisis in Haiti, development. known as Fantom 509 is active Clarks, however, says Giorgio Presca. Gary Champion the US recently reiterated it Her comments came as throughout Port-au-Prince and is its simply its pay of “paying remains as president of Clarks is “committed” to helping the #FreeHaiti continues to make known for its violent actions. homage” to the Jamaican culture Americas. Caribbean country. waves on social media and as Maria Vladimirovna and its long-standing affiliation The entire pack will drop The comment at a State the country’s President, Jovenel Zakharova, the spokesman and with the island. Its new “Jamaica on Clarksusa.com and Clarks.eu Department Press conference Moïse, who many say is clinging director of the information and Pack” collection has just been over the course of April. came after a reporter asked a to power beyond the legal end of press department of the Ministry released for spring ’21. Clarks is the latest brand question about the US’ position his term last month, has asked the of Foreign Affairs of the Russian It features three of the brand’s to tap into Brand Jamaica. in light of the fact that Russia has Organization of American States Federation, said last week that most iconic silhouettes – the Recently, top fashion designer expressed its intent to help Haiti (OAS) for assistance to deal with Russia can help Haiti Desert Boot, Wallabee, and Louis Vuitton released a restore political stability amid the the security crisis in the French- restore political stability, secure Desert Trek, each style comes ‘Jamaica-inspired’ line of ongoing violence there. speaking Caribbean nation, days the country and train its law in shades of yellow, green and clothing, but they mixed up Jalina Porter, Principal after the death of four police enforcement. black, representing Jamaica’s the colors of the country’s Deputy Spokesperson of the U.S. officers in a botched raid. “As a permanent member national flag. It also features national flag in a pricey high-end State Department stated: “Well, Moïse asked for help when of the United Nations Security the flag’s gold saltire emblem fashion line, which included a again, what I’ll – I’ll just say – he met with OAS Secretary- Council, we’re closely following throughout. $US1,366 sweater and jumper, I’ll just stress our commitment to General Luis Almagro to discuss the events in Haiti, it raises Jamaicans and many initially described one item as the people of Haiti. The United security. our concern,” Zakharova said. Caribbean nationals have a a ‘Jamaican striped sweatshirt.’ States is committed to helping Their discussion came on the “Currently, this Caribbean long-standing history of loving Additionally, the other the Haitian people to build a same day that an extraordinary country is going through a new Clarks. description read ‘Jumper with better future.” Council of Ministers met at the cycle of political instability that LionRock Capital now owns a striped design inspired by the She also noted that in National Palace and adopted has lasted for more than a quarter Clarks, acquiring a majority national flag of the Caribbean January, the US announced a decree to revise State of of a century.” stake in the 196-year-old English island.’ an additional $75.5 million Emergency legislation to give business for an investment of for Haiti, to help in a wide the Superior Council of the ~ NewsAmericasNow.com £100 million this month. Victor ~ NewsAmericasNow.com range of issues, which includes National Police (CSPN) the Herrero is now the executive democratic governance, health, means to combat banditry and Y Y Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 • 7 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT From Reggae Singers To COVID-19 Conspiracy Theorists? Jamaica’s COVID-19 infection you and it’s perfectly ok#honest six-time Grammy nominee, has rate is approaching 37,000 and # Jamaica land they love # not released more than twenty albums the death toll is approaching the people,” Buju wrote on his throughout his music career, 600 as the country rolled out a Instagram page. copping the Grammy Award twice vaccination campaign, but many ““Unoo agoh bawl fi Jah…. for Best Reggae Album for his top reggae singer and influencers MEMBA ME SPRAGGA BENZ 2000 release Calling Rastafari and have seemingly crossed over SAY DAT…COVID vaccine again in 2009 for Jah Is Real. He to conspiracy theorists, sharing manufacturers to get protection was also bestowed with the Order unfounded claims against taking from lawsuits!” he chanted on of Distinction by the Jamaican the jab. social media. Government in 2007 for his Among them are top reggae Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, contribution to the music industry artists such as Buju Banton, 85, has also questioned the and retired from touring in June Sizzla, Spragga Benz, Tony integrity of people purporting 2016. Rebel, Mr. Lexx, Queen Ifrica, to be Rastafarians who have And Gaps 7G, a dancehall Chronixx, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and been encouraging others to get star, also got his jab at York Kabaka Pyramid, according to vaccinated and wear masks, College in Queens, NY. Dancehall Mag. which he claims is part of the “I made up my mind to be Sizzla has labeled the “Babylonian system.” one of the first people to get my vaccine “The Babylon Curse,” Perry, according to Dancehall vaccine shot, mi have the second and has been demanding that Mag, said while he is looking one fi get in a month time, and mi all Jamaicans, including the forward to performing and seeing Reggae Great Burning Spears gets the COVID-19 vaccine in NYC. (Amy Wachtel, just a gwaan mask up and do the Governor-General, Prime Minister his fans once again, he is hoping also known as the Night Nurse image/Twitter) right ting till then,” he said. Andrew Holness, and all other that he would be able to travel Other reggae entertainers politicians, refuse to take the at least for this year without the ‘necessary’.” independent Reggae promoter who have voiced their willingness vaccine as it was designed with “shot passport,” as “once that Amy Wachtel, also known as the to take the jab include Shaggy, bad intentions. gets required for traveling, I will OTHER ARTISTS Night Nurse, on her Twitter page Ce’cile, Macka Diamond, “Stop scare us with this sadly have to say goodbye to live- But other reggae artists are this week. and Bounty Killer. Killer has coronavirus and dis vaccine ting; shows.” taking a different stance. Reggae “Mr. Winston Rodney, aka categorically told his fans to get it ain’t go work,” he was quoted Chronixx, in a now-deleted Legend Burning Spear has Burning Spear, receives his inoculated on a post he made as saying. “And mi a meck sure post, had stated that “tech heads reportedly taken his two shots in second dose of the #CovidVaccine of a flyer of the Sunclash meets mi a warn yuh, mi nuh wan si and war heads can’t talk to New York. today. People, are you ready? Shutdown show scheduled for nobaddy in di Jamaica Parliament Rastaman about human health” A captioned photo of the @burningmusic #vaccinated Ibiza, Spain from October 1 to 4 taking no coronavirus vaccine, and that he would only be “going ‘Slavery Days’ artist being #VaccinteNY $BurningSpear 2021, which will feature himself no one in di military nor di online for a concert if it’s an injected with his second dose by #ChantDownBabylon,” the and Beenie Man in performance. constabulary force; no doctor, no action against global vaccination.” a military medic, wearing a mask publicist, who has been promoting nurse..,” Sizzla had said. This as Kabaka Pyramid has bearing the Jamaican national and writing about Reggae music ~ NewsAmericasNow.com “So the love for this nation said the COVID-19 numbers were colors, was posted by New York since the early 1980s wrote. Y and its people soooo great. They being ramped with “false numbers City-based radio disc jockey and Burning Spear, who is a will allow there friends to kill fi mek sure seh di false vaccine 150 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Man Who Mowed Down Nicki Minaj’s Father A $150 million lawsuit has been filed against Charles Polevich, the man charged in the fatal hit-and-run of Robert Maraj, the father of Trinidad & Tobago-born rapper, Nicki Minaj. Carol Maraj, Robert’s wife and Minaj’s mother, has filed the multi- million dollar lawsuit using civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Crump has argued that Polevich’s inattentiveness and reckless driving were the Nicki Minaj and her late dad Robert Maraj in an cause of the fatal crash undated image. (Instagram: Nicki Minaj) that killed Robert Maraj on a street in Long Island scene to hide the car in his home on February 12th, according to garage after asking the victim if TMZ. he was OK. After filing the lawsuit on Marc Craig Gann, behalf of Carol Maraj, Crump Polevich’s attorney, told TMZ: tweeted “Charles Polevich “My client empathizes with the was not only irresponsible & family. The question of whether negligent in hitting Maraj, but there was negligence and degrees was more concerned about of negligence will be determined running away and hiding than by the court. The $150 million seeking help.” He continued, amount seems to be over the “Polevich’s behavior was top.” criminal, cowardly, and immoral. Polevich has pled not guilty We will hold him responsible for and was released on a $250,000 his reckless actions that led to bond. Robert Maraj’s death!” According to a police report, ~ NewsAmericasNow.com Polevich struck 64-year-old Y Maraj with his Volvo and fled the 8 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years FEATURE Caribbean Roots TV Presenter Makes History In The UK A Caribbean roots BBC News assignment was as He has also appeared as a guest “What a privilege it is presenter has made history in the a reporter for Radio on hit BBC shows including to take on this new role,” he UK by becoming the first black Bristol in 1988. Have I Got News For You and commented. “Mastermind with host of a the long-running BBC Myrie went on Would I Lie To You? and earlier Magnus Magnusson formed quiz show. to work as a reporter this year won the RTS Award for the backdrop to my youth, and Clive Myrie, who was born for Points West, BBC TV journalist of the year. now to be at the helm is a dream to Jamaican immigrant parents Television and Radio A regular presenter of BBC come true. I’m excited and can’t in Bolton, Lancashire, will News. He became a News At Six and Ten since 2010, wait to get stuck in.” replace John Humphrys as the foreign correspondent Myrie has previously worked as He also tweeted his thanks host of Mastermind. Myrie, 56, for the BBC in 1996 the broadcaster’s correspondent for “all for your messages of will be 5th host of BBC show, and went on to work in Asia, Africa, Washington, good will for #Mastermind.” which marks 50th anniversary as a correspondent Paris and Brussels. “It is much appreciated,” he next year. He is the first black in Asia, Africa, He has also appeared as added. Mastermind host in the show’s Clive Myrie, who was born to Jamaican immigrant Washington, Paris and a guest on hit BBC shows 49-year history. parents in Bolton, Lancashire, will replace John Brussels. including Have I Got News For ~ NewsAmericasNow.com Myrie’s mother was a Humphrys as the host of the BBC’s Mastermind. Myrie has You and Would I Lie To You? Y seamstress, and his father was been a regular and earlier this year won the RTS a factory worker making car on the corporation’s graduate presenter of BBC Award for TV journalist of the batteries. He joined the BBC journalism program and his first News At Six and Ten since 2010. year. Caribbean Born Writers Win Top Literary Prize Two Caribbean-born immigrant Voodoo Hypothesis, a finalist Established in 2013 and writers in Canada are among the for the Raymond Souster Award administered by Yale University, winners of this year’s Windham- (2018), is a wildly ambitious work the prize annually honors a Campbell Prize, an anonymously of speculative poetics, brilliantly selection of fiction, nonfiction, judged literary award worth US combining physics, philosophy, drama and poetry writers who $165,000. and pop culture. The book have been nominated in secret. Trinidad-born Canadian investigates, with a steady eye and The prize is given to support their Dionne Brand and St. Lucia- deep moral seriousness, state- writing. born Canadian Canisia Lubrin sanctioned violence against Black are among the eight writers from individuals and cultures – all ~ NewsAmericasNow.com around the world to win the honor. while remaining rooted in a vision Y Brand, The Toronto poet of Black diasporic aesthetics and laureate, won for her work in Trinidad-born Canadian Dionne Brand, (l.). and St. Lucia-born Canadian Canisia imagination. The Dyzgraphxst fiction. “With genre-bending Lubrin are among the eight writers from around the world to win the 2021 Wind- continues Lubrin’s exploration of explorations of narrative ham-Campbell Prize. Black history and Black futurities. form, Dionne Brand honors “It is impossible to in 2017 and was named to the Lubrin was recognized in the complexities of diasporic express what this extraordinary Street Address: experience, gracefully bringing to Order of Canada. She was also the poetry category. “Bursting encouragement means, what life the fundamental relationship the recipient of the 2019 Blue beyond the confines of legibility being in such company during 9020 SW 152nd Street between politics, aesthetics, and Metropolis Violet Literary Prize. and the individual, Canisia Lubrin such a catastrophic time, will Miami, FL 33157 love,” the Windham-Campbell Brand was born in Guayaguayare, summons up oceans, languages, make possible,” she commented Tel: (305) 238-2868 Prize statement reads. Trinidad and moved to Toronto in and the self, the other, and the on the award. “This invitation 1970. first-person plural, into a generous (305) 253-6029 She has in the past won the to trust even more deeply, the Fax: (305) 252-7843 Governor General’s Literary “This is an astonishing baroque project of anti-colonial potential of the not-yet-written is Award for poetry and the Trillium surprise. It will take me weeks, plenitude,” the Windham- transformative; and thanks to the Toll-Free Fax: 1-866-290-4550 Book Award for her 1997 maybe months to find the Campbell Prize statement noted. Windham-Campbell Prize, I will 1-800-605-7516 collection Land to Light On. best words to describe my Lubrin is the author of two face the world and these alphabets www.caribbeantoday.com amazement,” she commented on critically acclaimed collections of Brand was also the 2011 Griffin tomorrow and the day after with Send ads to: Poetry Prize for Ossuaries and the win. “For now, let me say, poetry: Voodoo Hypothesis (2017) renewed vigor.” wondrous.” and The Dyzgraphxst (2020). [email protected] Co-Founder Of VP Records Hailed As An Immigrant Success Story Vol. 32, Number 5 • APRIL. 2021 BY DERRICK SCOTT remarkable contribution of members of the Jamaican PETER A WEBLEY Jamaica’s Ambassador to the Diaspora to the economic, social, Publisher United States, Audrey Marks, has cultural and political landscape of lauded the contribution of Mrs. the United States,” Ambassador MARILYN CHIN Patricia Chin, aka “Ms. Pat,’ and Marks said. “Ms. Pat’s life stands her husband “Randy,” in both the out as an immigrant success Account Executive development of Jamaica’s reggae story, blazing a trail of excellence music genre and its promotion in entrepreneurship which has LORNA ASENCOR through their business, Randy’s inspired many other Jamaicans Accounting Manager Record Mart and VP Records. to pursue similar dreams in their adopted homeland.” “Since its emergence, reggae SABRINA MOSS music has come to be known The Jamaican envoy pointed as the “heartbeat of the world. out that Ms Pat’s journey served as Graphic Design However, any credible study of an inspiration to women, not just Opinions expressed by editors in Jamaica and the USA, but also this important genre which has and writers are not necessarily remained a significant feature of Co- Founder of VP Records Mrs Patricia Chin (Photo Credit Derrick Scott) across the globe. those of thepublisher. Caribbean Jamaica’s cultural heritage, will established a reggae empire The proceeds from the book will “Ms. Pat is, without doubt, a Today, an independent news­ reveal Mrs. Chin’s remarkable known as VP Records, constituted go towards supporting music cultural icon, whose life is one of contribution to its growth in a groundbreaking move, given education as well as the Alpha fusion with reggae music for more ­ magazine, is published every Jamaica and across the globe,” their singular role in introducing Institute in Jamaica to enhance than six (6) decades. Whether month by Caribbean Publishing Ambassador Marks commented. several artistes to the international the facilities and upgrading the Ms. Pat chose music or music & Services, Inc. Caribbean “From their humble scene and building a new wave of school’s musical technology chose her, Jamaica and indeed the Today is not responsible for beginnings as Randy’s Record reggae legends, including Beenie equipment. world is a better place as a result unsolicited manuscripts or Mart in 1958 — founded by Man, Bounty Killer, Lady Saw This is expected to benefit of her courage and fortitude in photos. To guarantee return, overcoming the odds and making Pat Chin and her late husband, and Sean Paul.” this important institution where please include a self-addressed Vincent “Randy” Chin – the Chins her mark in the music industry. I Ambassador Marks was thousands of boys have walked the stamped envelope. Articles were instrumental in introducing speaking at a reception to corridors over the years and where therefore join Jamaicans at home and giving prominence to many celebrate the launch of the recently she is leaving a legacy which and in the Diaspora in celebrating appearing in Caribbean Today new reggae stars,” she added. released book, “Miss Pat – My will outlive her for generations to the life of a legend,” Ambassador may not be reproduced without “Their relocation to the United Musical Journey,” hosted by Carib come, the ambassador declared. Marks added. written permission of the editor. States in the 1970s where they News publishers out of New York. “I am always inspired by the Y Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 • 9 VIEWPOINT Joe Biden’s Big Immigration Mistake Adultery Drivers Democratic lawmakers, unlike ‘Blue Dog’ Democrats, whose Republicans, don’t have loyalty districts are purple and who cannot Adultery can destroy people’s to Party line. They clearly do not be seen as supporters of an open lives, both in a physical and follow the ‘Birds Of A Feather border policy. emotional way. Throw in the Stick Together,’ mantra, unlike the Even moderate Republicans spiritual aspect and you can see GOPers. Most often do what they are not going to support how destructive adultery can be. feel is best for them politically - immigration reform with this One guy defined adultery as such: like Joe Manchin. new surge. This now has the “A man commits adultery by Now as the focus turns to the Democratic leaders in both taking from the married woman next agenda item for President the House and the Senate in what her husband has claimed as Joe Biden – now that the 1.9 dread over what the next steps his sole privilege.” TONY trillion stimulus forward should be for The U.S. So, based on that definition, ROBINSON is out of the Citizenship Act of 2021 as the adultery is more about the way – some Biden administration looks like its infringement on another man’s Democrats scratching its head. property. I guess it’s about the meeting clients, are suddenly Democratic leaders in same as driving a man’s car hanging out unsure if the Congress know they don’t have without his permission or wearing in the country President’s bold the support as yet for the measure, his shoes without asking him first. for weekends. immigration neither in the House or the Does a man just get up one Anything but reform plan, as Senate, so many are now trying morning and declare: “I am going face her,” he introduced in for smaller bites of the apple by to commit adultery today!” Or confessed. February, can FELICIA J. pushing smaller measures instead, does a wife, married for years, Basically, he be taken up PERSAUD like the Dream and Promise simply wake up one day and say: was driven away right now. Act and The Farm Workforce “Ah, I’m ready for adultery, bring from his home by solace and comfort in the arms of Why? Modernization Act passed by the it on.” a harridan wife and sought solace another man. They simply needed Blame Joe House. Are people born tocommit anywhere else. So, he was driven to escape from the abuse and find Biden himself and this disaster at Those bills, much like The adultery, was adultery thrust to commit adultery by a loveless comfort outside. “I just felt at the US’ southern border – again! U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, now upon them, or were they driven marriage and a shrewish wife. peace with that other man, and Despite the pandemic, the appear dead in the water as the to commit adultery? “I can’t help He is not alone. Many men naturally one thing led to another,” Biden administration, without administration scrambles over the it, it’s in my genetic makeup. My would rather spend their hours one told me. waiting for Congress to move on border brouhaha and the crisis it father committed adultery, as did on the road, hanging out in bars, Given a choice, many women any immigration reform, ordered manufactured with silly warnings his father before him,” are some even sleeping in cars, rather than wouldn’t go that route, but they the Department of Homeland like: “Don’t Come Now” to “The excuses. Or: “I didn’t plan to, but go home to their wives. They are were literally driven. Now you Security to suspend the Migrant border is closed.” the opportunity presented itself, so literally driven into the arms of may say that people should Protection Protocols regarding the Immigration reform to me I took it.” and this one: “I didn’t other women. exercise more self control, that application of asylum. is about immigrants within the want to, but you drove me to it.” Now I’m not justifying they’re seeking an excuse for This led to news spreading like country. This includes stopping I knew this guy who was adultery or making excuses for their infidelity, but they really are wildfire into Central America that the endless deportations of mostly a man driven to committing these men, but some women driven. the US’ border is open again. Haitian immigrants and putting adultery. He was married for years really drive men to seek solace People don’t usually leave With many Central and Latin undocumented immigrants, to a woman he didn’t really love, elsewhere. When a wife deprives good for bad. Okay, some American migrants believing DREAMERS and those with TPS and from I knew him, he always a man and even tells him: “Sex people will stray no matter what, they have a better chance now to status on the path to legalization. It had a mistress or another woman. is only for procreation, not curiosity, revenge. Yes, revenge. get into the U.S., many parents does not mean letting more people As he broke off with one, he took pleasure,” what is he supposed to “I gave him a taste of his own are now sending their children in, especially in this pandemic and up with another. do? medicine and slept with his across the border alone, while it certainly does not mean open I had to ask him: “Why this And what about the women, friend.” they remain in Mexico or Central season at the Southern Border. adulterous lifestyle brother?” I what drives them to adultery? In But usually a man or woman America. What a difference a few needed to satisfy my curiosity. many instances, it’s as a result won’t be driven to adultery if There are now more than weeks make. Immigrants have He told me that he got married of abuse. Many wives I spoke to things are fine at home. Still, some 15,000 unaccompanied immigrant gone from excitement to now because his wife got pregnant so didn’t really set out to commit people will step out no matter children in US immigration concern and disillusionment, all ‘it was the honorable thing to do.’ adultery and were not driven by what. detention according to Associated because of Joe Biden’s haste. Despite that, his wife turned out the lure of physicality or other Press reports, and the figure is to be a witch out of hell and he trappings. EDITOR’S NOTE: Tony rising almost daily. ~ The writer is publisher of literally dreaded going home to In the cases of many, it was as Robinson can be reached at The new surge has now NewsAmericasNow her in the evenings. a result of abuse. Some husbands [email protected] created fear in the hearts of many Y “That’s why I’m always on the abused them physically or Y road doing sales, working late, emotionally, and they then sought From Dante To Daddy Yankee BY DAWN A. DAVIS the language of reggaeton, presence continued in one way of history where Italian Cleric, dancehall, and rap to Dante’s another through art and architecture Alessandro Geraldini, contributed Who would have thought that literary devices illuminates in the Americas, and specifically greatly to establishing the city of 14th century Italian poet and the power of communication in the Caribbean, for the next 500 Santo Domingo. In Havana, there philosopher, Dante, could have in creating culture. years.” are many examples of Italian had an impact on Caribbean music, “This is about two In fact, the Italian connection architects designing important language, and culture? characters that is separated to Caribbean history is celebrated buildings, including The Castle of Known as the ‘Father of the by 700 years of history,” in early Dominican Republic (CONTINUED ON PAGE 10) Italian Language,’ Dante Alighieri, Pastor remarked to his online wrote some of the most impactful audience. “Indeed, the Societa poetry of the middle ages, in a Dante Alighieri Miami is vernacular designed to reach all commemorating 700 years people, not just the learned. This since Dante’s death this year is the legacy that he left on the by reading and analysing his language, one that has influenced works and how they impacted other creatives, including Puerto the world. But, what is his Rican-born singer, songwriter and connection to the Caribbean?” it can be argued that Columbus’ rapper, Daddy Yankee. voyages and so-called contribution Claudio Pastor, Director of COMBINED HISTORY to the European presence in the the Societa Dante Alighieri Miami Pastor explained that new world changed the history of (Dante Alighieri Society), explored starting with the better known mankind forever. the connection in a recent seminar of all persons in history that are “From 1492 when he arrived sponsored by the Miami-Dade connected to the new world, in the new world, the presence of Public Library System. Christopher Columbus was Italian, Italy and Italian has been present For a society that promotes born in the city of Genoa. So, in the Caribbean,” said Pastor. Italian culture and language, the combined history starts from “The island of Puerto Rico, the taking the bold step to compare day one in the new world; and Dominican Republic, Jamaica, that 10 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years VIEWPOINT The Post Pandemic Crisis Facing Education In Jamaica BY DR. WINSTON WHYTE to my work as a teacher and • Some 34 per cent of age-level educational administrator in the high school students were not The digital divide in Jamaica United States school system for recommended to do the SCEC widened when the COVID-19 41 years. A 2021 publication examinations in 2014. pandemic struck and confined by educator and human rights •About 75 per cent of the students students to virtual learning. The activist Yvonne McCalla Sobers attending traditional secondary transition was smooth for those and titled: “Turn On The Lights: schools pass five (5) subjects with access to technology and Wi- Ending Educational Inequality/ including Mathematics and Fi service. Inequity,” has helped to brief me English at one sitting while only Those on the other side of on the current situation in the 20 per cent of students attending the digital divide faced a lifetime Jamaican school system. non-traditional secondary schools of under-achievement and the The need for a radical change pass five CSEC subjects at one transfer of poverty from one in the Jamaican educational sitting. generation to another. All the system is illustrated by gaps in the The pandemic compounds stakeholders in the educational 2021-2022 budget estimates of the existing inequality brought system – students, parents, the Ministry of Education (MOE) about by inadequate and teachers, government, and where, for example: ineffective distribution of alumni associations – therefore 1) The MOE estimates do not resources, parenting, teaching have challenges requiring urgent mention the Covid-19 Pandemic, techniques, school leadership, resolution. let alone address its impact on Jamaican high schooler at Calabar HS. community amenities, and mental/ An estimated 400,000 budget allocation to education for psychological diagnoses for Jamaican students may have the 2021 – 2022 school year. additional resources for the most the Early Childhood Commission students not been able to take part in 2) There is no provision for disadvantaged children so that (ECC) and only about 3,500 A cookie cutter approach will online learning because of lack students already behind by at least every child can receive the same out of 10,000 early childhood not address the myriad of issues of technology or Wi-Fi at home. a grade or two, who will have educational opportunities. teachers have the minimum affecting education in Jamaica. Children attending schools in missed 18 months of schooling by However, the Jamaican teacher training certification. Each school needs to develop an rural areas have special challenges the time the school year begins in government’s gross underfunding Stop gap programmes such action plan that is unique to its with on-line schooling. September 2021. of early childhood education as the Alternative Secondary demographics and tailored to its Reports suggests that as 3) The MOE’s mission, limits children’s readiness for Transition Education Program stakeholders. Schools have the many as 50 percent of the students vision, and objectives are primary education – a major (ASTEP) have not been able to dilemma of finding the resources in Hanover were not able to vague, abstract, generalized and indicator of academic success. For improve student performance to address inequities faced by access online schooling between seem unrelated to the problems example, the 2019 – 2020 budget affected by wealth disparities, low the children of the poor who are March and December last year. that learners, teachers, and allocated only $3.38 billion for wages, high unemployment and afflicted by the cycles of poverty The COVID-19 ripple effect will administrators face in education. early- childhood education, as poverty. MOE data shows that and unequal opportunity, that be devastating if not planned for In its 2018 Handbook compared with $38 billion for almost 2160 students between 80 per cent of the students who and addressed immediately. on ‘Measuring Equity in secondary education. grades 8 and 10 drop out of continue to be left behind. Providing equity for the Education,’ UNESCO defined Further, out of a total of secondary schools each year. As a Jamaican who lives disadvantaged has been central equitable funding as providing 2,700 early childhood institutions, Those who leave school without abroad, I am very concerned only 122 have been certified by academic qualifications are likely about the pending set back that to be unemployable as at risk Jamaica faces from the impact of for teen pregnancy and early the pandemic. There is an urgency involvement in crime. to address the multitude of issues The pandemic will negatively impacting education, creating impact the already poor solutions that will be beneficial to performance at the secondary ALL students. levels where the MOE indicates No Child Must Be Left that: Behind! • Only 38.6 per cent of the grade 11 cohort who sat the Caribbean EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Winston Secondary Education Certificate Whyte is a Jamaican-born, US (CSEC) in 2014 attained five (5) educator. subjects, including mathematics and English. Y From Dante To Daddy Yankee (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9) important demographic who El Morro. understood and communicated well The link between Dante and in his language.” Daddy Yankee is similar in that their use of language, lyrics, poetry UNIVERSAL reached the populous. Daddy Yankee writes songs with “Dante was revolutionary. He universal themes, said Pastor. His decided to write Italy’s pinnacle recently released single Problema, book in literature (Divine Comedy) deals with love, as Dante also in what was the language of the wrote about. In fact, Dante was streets so that it could be more famously in love with Beatrice, a accessible, not in the Latin that was story written about and continues used in monasteries and amongst to be explored to this day. In the the elite. The language spoken in lyrics of Problema, Daddy Yankee the streets of Florence at the time refers to his dilemmas, issues, or was called vulgar because it was difficulties with love. the language of the people. But because of Dante, it becomes the Pastor added that it’s not certain Italian we know today.” how ‘street’ languages and the Pastor continued: “Daddy influence of artistes like Daddy Yankee’s (often cited as the King of Yankee will affect how Spanish reggaeton) music, if you look at the will evolve over time. Spanish lyrics, although very different from from the Caribbean will certainly the poetry and words in Divine look very different and will be Comedy, is also revolutionary. influenced by some of these Why? 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Roti mixing bowl and combine. It’s as diverse as the people of the region INGREDIENTS Roti is a favorite cuisine for many Add 2 tbsp shortening. Mix until and their cultures. Here are a few dishes • 1 cup long grain rice Caribbean nationals and was introduced crumbly. that reflect that diversity. Bon Appetite! • 1 onion chopped by Indian indentured servants who Add water a little at a time. You may • 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and thinly were brought to the region to replace not need all the water. Mix into a soft Jamaican Pepper Pot Soup sliced emancipated slaves and Chinese and dough. Jamaica’s Pepper Pot dish originates • 200 grams of salted meat – beef or Portugues indentured laborers. Here’s Add 1 tbs vegetable oil to the top of with the Maroons of The Sovereign State pork, and/or chicken breast how you can become a roti pro with this the dough and cover with a damp cloth. of Accompong. Here’s how to make it. • 1 small tomato, chopped simple recipe. Let rest for 45 – 60 mins • 1 tbs black pepper Flour a clean surface. Add dough. • 1 pinch of nutmeg Divide into 6 equal pieces. Form into • 1 fresh hot pepper balls Roll each ball and rub it with oil • 1 tbsp. tomato paste or ketchup mixture. You can use shortening and • 1/2 to 1 packet of masoesa or passion vegetable oil – equal parts or melted food powder, which you can buy on ghee. Oil, roll into a cone, cover and let Amazon. sit for 30 mins • Some sliced pointed cabbage (optional) Heat skillet, Tawa or large frying • 3-4 Maggi cubes or chicken stock cubes pan med to low heat. Roll out the Roti, • A few tablespoons of oil add to heated cookware, turn after • 1 tbps butter 15-20 seconds, rub oil mixture, flip, oil • 1 can of coconut milk (optional) the other side. 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The U.S. Centers for Disease in the destinations where the In addition, vacationers Control and Prevention (CDC) ships will visit, which the lines must meet the travel has blocked cruise ships that now have. requirements of The Bahamas. carry more than 250 people Royal Caribbean - the This may include receiving a from sailing in U.S. waters world’s largest cruise line - said negative PCR test result before since March of 2020 due to the it would begin seven-night their arrival, testing upon arrival coronavirus pandemic. But two sailings out of Nassau in the into the country and filling out of the world’s biggest cruise Bahamas on June 12th that will appropriate entry forms. The lines have announced they feature calls in the Bahamas and most up-to-date policies can be Will The Caribbean Rebound in 2021? would resume North America Mexico. The trips will take place found at The Bahamas website. COVID-19 is sparing few, and The impact was cruises in June despite the on the line’s 3,807-passenger Celebrity, a sister line to the Caribbean tourism sector, particularly evident during pandemic. Adventure of the Seas - a ship Royal Caribbean, said it would the backbone of many regional the period of April to about Royal Caribbean and that originally was scheduled to begin seven-night sailings out of economies, has been hit by mid -June when there was Celebrity Cruises have spend the summer in Europe. St. Martin on June 5th, that will a wrecking ball, leading to a literally no activity in some of announced sailings out of The new itineraries feature calls at such destinations decline of 21 million tourists destinations, according to the the Bahamas and St. Martin, departing through August, which as Aruba, Curaçao and Barbados. to the region in 2020 compared organization. respectively. The sailings will will sail with vaccinated crew, The trips will take place on to 2019. But the Caribbean This was characterized by not originate in or involve will be available to adult guests the line’s 2,218-passenger Tourism Organization, (CTO), any stops at U.S. ports which who are fully vaccinated against Celebrity Millennium - a ship empty hotels and restaurants, means they will not require the COVID-19 and those under that originally was scheduled to is forecasting better news this deserted attractions, shut approval of the CDC. They only the age of 18 with negative test spend the summer in Alaska. year. borders, laid-off workers, require the approval of officials results. The Caribbean’s performance grounded airlines and crippled Y in 2021, CTO officials say, is cruise lines. 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In case you have not been proving why he is following the qualifiers, known widely as the here’s where Caribbean “UniverseBoss.” The countries stand in their FIFA Jamaican born star is World Cup bid. showing he is multi- There are 35 teams dimensional, adding competing from North, recording artist to his Central America and the resume. Caribbean in five groups – Gayle has A-F. released “Wack we a Wack,” which shows In Group A is fun side while After two matches sending an important played, Antigua & Barbuda message and sharing is tied with El Salvador for 4 a new dance move. points after winning one of The single was their 2 matches and drawing written by Gayle Chris Gayle has released “Wack we a Wack.’ the second. Grenada has 3 and his team, Camar points after winning 1 match “Flava” Doyles and The song’s launch comes as Georvin Briscoe at Triple Century and losing the second while 10CRIC has announced Gayle as Haiti beat Belize in their first clash in Group E. Records and focuses on cutting Montserrat has 2 points after their new brand ambassador. He table. Belize got their Qatar 2022 off those persons who don’t wish drawing both matches. The USVI eight-match losing streak in FIFA will be the face of the brand for qualification campaign up and you well and are only there to use has yet to score a point after losing World Cup qualifying with a 3-0 the next 2 years and it reinstates running with an assured victory you because of who you are. both of their matches. triumph over British Virgin Islands 10CRIC’s position as a leading in Willemstad, Curacao. over Turks and Caicos Islands. “We wanted a high energy cricket betting brand in India. Group F dancing song that the people can In Group B Group D “We are over the moon And in Group F, Saint Kitts move to and once we created with the fact Chris has agreed to Suriname is tied with Canada In Group D, the Dominican and Nevis leads the group with the hook ‘Wack we a Wack,’ promote our brand, we see in him for 6 points after winning both of Republic is tied with Panama 6 points, after winning all two everything else just came together the perfect match to represent the their matches. Bermuda has three for 6 points while Barbados has of their matches. Trinidad and nicely,” Gayle explained. “There 10CRIC values – he is a winner, points after winning one of its three and Dominica and Anguilla, Tobago has four points while are persons around you that aren’t full of fun and always aims to two matches while Aruba and the nil. Barbados was made to work Guyana has three. T&T won one happy for you they are just there please and surprise his fans,” Cayman Islands have no points overtime to end a strong challenge of their matches and drew the other to use you and we don’t want the company said in a statement. after losing both matches. from an Anguilla side who had avoided defeat in just one of 11 while Guyana won one and lost no bad vibes or negative energy “This is what 10CRIC is all about the second. Puerto Rico has one around us. Who not adding value and we hope that through the Group C previous World Cup qualifiers. point in the Group after drawing to your life we a wack off the image of Chris Gayle we will be Curacao is tied with one match while the Bahamas has link.” able to introduce the brand to an Guatemala on 6 points each after Group E so far lost both matches. Guyana Gayle also sees his newfound even wider audience of cricket winning both their matches. St. In Group E, Haiti, Belize and Nicaragua has three points apiece won their first World Cup qualifier platform as an opportunity to passionates looking to have fun Vincent and the Grenadines has 3 share more with his fans and after winning one match and losing since November 2011 and did so while watching cricket.” points while Cuba and the British connect with them even more another. Turks & Caicos and St decisively. Virgin Islands are zero. St. Vincent than he currently does as an Lucia both have zero on the points ~ NewsAmericasnow.com and the Grenadines ended an Y award winning sports personality. Y Contention Again Surrounds Cricket West Indies Contention again surrounds the auditors. meeting proceed as scheduled. West Indies cricket brand as “This is the first time in our “I very much hope, maybe the Annual General Meeting history we’ve had consolidated naively, that the 11th will that was set to include the financial statements and that’s happen. Barbados said clearly election of the new management because we now own Coolidge that they wanted longer to look for another year has now Cricket Ground Inc, a subsidiary at the consolidated statements been postponed to April 11th company,” Grave told Starcom so they now would’ve had following the snubbing of the Radio’s Mason and Guest four weeks to look at the CWI boards of two countries. cricket show. accounts and two further weeks The Barbados Cricket “Other than the rental to look at the CCG accounts,” Association and the Guyana income from the Antigua he added. “I would like to think Cricket Board both snubbed Athletics Club and some car that on that basis the BCA the March 28th virtual meeting, park rent, all the costs of running would attend.” leaving the meeting short of that cricket ground are already The meeting comes as a nine-member quorum and in the CWI accounts, so the West Indies head coach Phil forcing its postponement. substantial difference between Simmons has urged authorities More significantly, the our financial statements and in the Caribbean to prepare postponement stalled the those consolidated with CCB are more results-oriented pitches, presidential elections which extremely minor,” he explained. following a nil-all draw in the were expected to pit the “That’s why the Audit, Risk and recent two-Test series against GCB’s Anand Sanasie against Compliance Committee and the Sri Lanka. incumbent president Ricky Finance Committee approved the Both matches finished in Skerritt and the BCA’s Calvin The antagonism comes as the West Indies team is finally starting to shine again audited statements on Tuesday, tame stalemates on flat wickets Rookie Nkrumah Bonner made his maiden Test hundred during the recently Hope against CWI vice- concluded drawn test series. March 9, that’s why the Board at the Vivian Richards Cricket president Dr Kishore Shallow. of Directors approved them Stadium and Simmons said it Both Sanasie and Hope them enough time to peruse financial statements, however, on March 11 subject to those was important to provide more subsequently announced they them and thus causing their which were only required consolidated audited statements.” competitive pitches in the region were dropping their bid for the representatives to skip the AGM. because of the recent acquisition Grave said with the two- in order to lift the profile of Test CWI leadership. But Cricket West Indies of Coolidge Cricket Ground, week postponement of the match cricket. The BCA and GCB chief executive, Johnny Grave, had been issued to shareholders AGM, he hoped it would now contended that CWI had not said territorial boards had been on March 26th. provide enough time for the ~ Rewritten from CMC provided the audited financial sent the audited statements Grave also stressed that BCA and GCB to look over the Y statements the stipulated 14 days 14 days before the AGM as the consolidated statements had consolidated statements, so a in advance, therefore not giving required. The consolidated also been a late request from the quorum could be had, and the Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 • 17 HEALTH NEWS US Ignores Caribbean In Vaccine Diplomacy The US plans to send millions of doses of stockpiled AstraZeneca vaccine to Mexico and Canada but none to the Caribbean. The vaccine diplomacy with Mexico comes as the Joe Biden administration, with a Caribbean roots Vice-President, tries to curb a massive flow of immigrants from the Mexican border who have streamed in since Biden lifted the Trump rolls on COVID-19 and loosened asylum application The US has sent no vaccines to the Caribbean, but India and China have processing. stepped up. Mexico had publicly asked island developing states. deaths as a result of the SARS- the Biden administration to send it “It would perhaps be useful for CoV-2 virus, according to official doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in them to think of their third border, data from the country. a video call this month. At the time, the Caribbean,” he said. COVAX seeks to provide Biden did not agree. But as some The region will have to vaccines for at least 20% of the 14,000 unaccompanied minors have depend on China, India and the population of each participating come into the US and the Jen Psaki, Pan American Health Organization country during 2021. In this first the White House press secretary, (PAHO), the Coalition for Epidemic round of vaccine allocation, all herself called it a “crisis” Thursday, Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), COVAX participating countries will the US is now ponying over 2.5 Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Gavi, receive doses to vaccinate between million doses of the vaccine to UNICEF and the World Health 2.2 and 2.6% of their population. Mexico and 1.5 million to Canada. Organization (WHO). The only exceptions are small The Caribbean is out in the The bodies have worked to island developing States, which will cold, putting the United States far get 15 Caribbean countries over receive an allocation of vaccines behind China, India and Russia 2 million free doses of COVAX to cover between 16 and 20% of in the race to use vaccines as COVID-19 vaccines which will their population, due to the high diplomatic tools in the Americas, reach them by May. logistical cost of delivering small including the Caribbean. The 15 Caribbean countries quantities of vaccines. India and Beijing have shipped that will receive the vaccines are In response to vaccine thousands of vaccines to the region Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, hoarding by a select few nations, as has Russia even as Biden has Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, including the US, CARICOM drawn criticism for not making Dominica, the Dominican Republic, nations drafted and successfully it easier for poorer countries to Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, negotiated an OAS resolution gain access to generic versions St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia, that was adopted by acclamation. of coronavirus vaccines and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The “Resolution on the Equitable treatments. Surinam, and Trinidad and Tobago. Distribution of COVID-19 A Caribbean minister of Six of these countries (Dominica, Vaccines” was co-sponsored by all government has urged the US to Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, St. Lucia, CARICOM states as well as eight donate COVID-19 vaccines to the and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. other OAS members, and it argued Caribbean. Jamaica has already gotten that “the world will not survive if St. Kitts and Nevis Minister 14,400 doses, becoming the first 15 percent of the world holds for of Foreign Affairs Mark Brantley country in the Caribbean to receive itself 60 percent of vaccines, and 85 made the formal request to the the COVID-19 vaccines through percent of the people must struggle US Ambassador to the Eastern the COVAX Facility. Jamaica is for an equitable share.” Caribbean and Barbados as The US expected to continue receiving The Biden administration, plans to send millions of doses of doses through May until it reaches however, is asleep to that reality as stockpiled AstraZeneca vaccine to 124,800, the amount specified by its Third Border neighbors struggle Mexico and Canada - but none to COVAX. on their own. the Caribbean. Since the first case of Brantley is urging the Joe COVID-19 was reported in ~ NewsAmericasnow.com Biden administration to also make Jamaica, the country has recorded vaccines available to the small 31,305 confirmed cases and 492 Y Guyanese Journalist Is Latest COVID-19 Fatality Infectious Diseases years, worked at the Department Hospital where she had of Public Information and the been admitted after Guyana Chronicle. testing positive. According to reports, ~ NewsAmericasNow.com she reportedly suffered Y a heart attack and slipped into a coma on Sunday. She never regained consciousness. The Guyana Press Association has ex- Guyanese journalist Namela Baynes-Henry died of tended its sympathy to COVID-19 on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Baynes-Henry’s family and loved ones. A Guyanese journalist has Guyana now has 223 become the latest victim of deaths from CVOID-19 and is COVID-10 in the South Ameri- closing in on 10,000 infections. can CARICOM nation. Henry was the founder of the Namela Baynes-Henry died of First Look Morning Show and COVID-19 on Thursday, March First Look News on Channel 25, 2021, just over two weeks Nine. She was also the former after being hospitalized with the Personal Assistant/ Public virus. Local media reported that Relations Officer at the Ministry the 63-year-old passed away in of Legal Affairs. In more recent the Intensive Care Unit of the 18 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2021 Over 11,336,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years NEWS Florida House Eyes Cuts For Nursing Homes, Hospitals The Florida House Speaker has Springs, for the upcoming 2021- the House health-care plan rolled out a health care spending 2022 fiscal year would spend less recommended reducing Medicaid proposal that includes deep than what the Senate has proposed. payments for inpatient and cuts, including slicing Medicaid Florida Health Care Association outpatient hospital care by $288 reimbursements to nursing homes President Emmett Reed said the million. by 2 percent, or $80.4 million in proposed Medicaid cuts to nursing Moreover, the House plan state and federal funding. homes would translate to about a proposes eliminating $226 million The proposal, unveiled by $125,000 reduction in payments from what the Safety Net Hospital House Health Care Appropriations per facility per year. Alliance of Florida calls the Chairman Bryan Avila, R-Miami Similar to the Senate proposal, “critical care fund.” The fund is

The state Legislature is proposing deep cuts, including slicing Medicaid reim- bursements to nursing homes by 2 percent. used to offer enhanced Medicaid health coverage to poor, elderly and payments to 28 hospitals that disabled residents. Enrollment in provide the largest amounts of Florida’s Medicaid program stands charity care in the state, according at more than 4.5 million people, to the industry group. an increase of more than 730,000 In all, the House proposed people in the past year since the spending roughly $42.1 billion COVID-19 pandemic hit the state. across the state’s six health care- Reducing nursing home related agencies. By contrast the reimbursements by 2 percent Senate released a $42.3 billion “saves” about $31.1 million in state proposal. The proposals are an dollars, about one-third the amount early step that will ultimately be the House needs to fund the part of House and Senate leaders extension for postpartum women. negotiating a final budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. ~ Rewritten from News Service of Jointly funded by the state and Florida federal governments, Medicaid is Y a safety net program that provides Study To Gauge Acceptance Of COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Workers Let us help you live your best life.

ADVANCED ORTHOPAEDIC CARE STARTS WITH BROWARD HEALTH Public Health Nurse, Marcia Thomas-Yetman, was the first person in Jamaica to receive the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. Whether you’re a professional athlete, weekend warrior or an active senior, we can treat a variety of conditions from sudden In an effort to help country and recommend COVID-19 officials better understand vaccines, factors influencing injuries to lifelong wear-and-tear. Broward Health offers specialized the concerns, attitudes and these intentions, and general compassionate care to help you get moving again, pain-free. intended practices of Caribbean attitudes towards the COVID-19 health care workers regarding and flu vaccines. WE SPECIALIZE IN: COVID-19 vaccines, the Pan PAHO/WHO has American Health Organization recommended that health care • Hand, forearm, elbow & shoulder pain (PAHO) Subregional Caribbean providers be the first group to be • Hip, knee and ankle pain office has launched a survey vaccinated against COVID-19. which will inform a targeted Health care workers are also • Fractures regional communication recognized as significant • Pediatric injuries & deformities campaign for this priority group. influencers of health-related The survey will target attitudes and behaviors related to • Spine conditions health care workers in 14 vaccination in their communities. • Sports injuries countries: Antigua and Barbuda, This group is being Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, prioritized for communications Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, to support them in accepting To make an appointment, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and COVID-19 vaccines, as well as call 954.940.7000 or visit Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and to ensure they are equipped to the Grenadines, Suriname and share correct knowledge with BrowardHealth.org/BHPGOrtho. Trinidad and Tobago. their patients and other members It will seek to ascertain of the public. BrowardHealth.org attitudes to vaccines in Y general, intentions to take

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To check for availability, minority communities. websites frequently for updates. to administer visit CVS.com or call customer This year’s theme for Hospitals and Clinic Locations: second-dose service at 800-746-7287. National Minority Health Month Pfizer shots. • Broward Health of Corals ▪ Some Winn-Dixie and Fresco is #VaccineReady as the OMH Springs You can just is also highlighting the need for show up y Más stores offer vaccines in • Broward Health Imperial Point South Florida. For Winn-Dixie, these vulnerable communities to • Broward Health Medical Center because the get vaccinated as more vaccines to anyone 40 and over according sites don’t take visit winndixie.com/pharmacy/ • Broward Health North covid-vaccine. For Fresco y Mas, become available. • Cleveland Clinic to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. appointments. County sites include Tropical Park, Anyone who lives in Florida and visit frescoymas.com/pharmacy/ Getting A COVID-19 Vaccine In • Florida Medical Center covid-vaccine. Florida • Holy Cross Zoo Miami and Homestead Sports falls under the state’s vaccine The State is currently now • Memorial Hospital Miramar Complex. criteria can get the vaccine at ▪ Some Walmart and Sam’s Club MDC North. This includes people allowing any adult 18 and up to get • Memorial Hospital Pembroke Federally Supported Sites stores offer vaccines, including the vaccine. Pines with at risk conditions who have in Broward and Miami- ▪ Miami Dade College North • Memorial Hospital South an “at risk” form signed by their Dade counties. To schedule a Registering campus is the first federally • Memorial Regional Hospital physician. A doctor’s note is also COVID-19 vaccine appointment The Florida Division of supported vaccination site • Plantation General Hospital accepted. Pre-K-12th grade school at Walmart, visit walmart.com/ Emergency Management launched to open in South Florida. • University Hospital employees and childcare workers COVIDvaccine. For Sam’s a statewide preregistration Appointments are not required, • Westside Regional Hospital can also get the vaccine. Clubs, visit samsclub.com/covid. system for COVID-19 vaccine but they are recommended. The • Local Pharmacies and Retail State-run sites in Miami- appointments. Eligible residents site is open every day from 7 ▪ Some Walgreens stores offer Stores: Dade County include Hard Rock can visit myvaccine.fl.gov to pre- a.m. to 7 p.m. and is a walk-up, vaccines, including in Palm • Walmart and Sam’s Club Stadium in Miami Gardens and register for vaccine appointments which means people wait in line Beach County. To check for registration Marlins Park in Miami. that become available in their area. instead of in their car. Anyone availability visit walgreens.com/ • Walmart.com/COVIDvaccine or Pharmacies: Those who have registered who would prefer to book an topic/promotion/covid-vaccine. samsclub.com/covid will be contacted by phone call, appointment, visit myvaccine. 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Miami-Dade For a list of state and county- In Miami-Dade, county-run run vaccine locations, visit: vaccination sites are now open Caribbean Born Lauderdale Lakes Mayor Encourages All To Get The COVID-19 Shot Caribbean-born Lauderdale Lakes Mayor, Hazelle Rogers, is urging all Caribbean Americans and all Floridians to get their COVId-19 vaccines once they are eligible. Mayor Rogers recently received her second dose of Lauderdale Lakes Mayor Hazel Rogers getting her final the Pfizer vaccine COVID-19 vaccine recently. at the parking lot of Leading. Walmart Supercenter arrived on March 22nd, and At Jackson, your health is our priority all year long. April is National located at 3001 N. State Road 7 approximately 4,676 running by Minority Health Month, but in our health system your wellbeing is a priority 365 days in Lauderdale Lakes, FL under the end of the day. a year. That’s why we’ve been out there since the beginning of this pandemic, urging the sounds of “DJ Mickey Mike” Beginning on Monday, everyone to wear masks, avoid crowds and save lives. And that’s why we’ll be out there with WZOP Radio. March 29, 2021, persons 40 through April and beyond, vaccinating our community and keeping you informed of the Mayor Rogers had received and older began receiving the her first round of the COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine, and on facts around vaccination. We’ve seen, firsthand, how this terrible virus has singled out vaccine about a month ago. Monday, April 5th, all persons some in our community: people with diabetes, high blood pressure, minorities. We’ve “We all have to do our part to 18 and older will be eligible to responded with additional outreach deeper in our community, partnering with churches keep each other safe,” stated receive the vaccine. and non-profit groups to get seniors and high-risk individuals vaccinated. Together, we Mayor Rogers during the on-air Pre-register at www.myvaccine. shall overcome. A healthier, happier future is on the horizon. interview. fl.gov or call (866) 201-6313 The importance of reaching to schedule an appointment. Visit JacksonHealth.org for a specialist or for more information on COVID-19. everyone, including the Lauderdale Lakes residents Haitian American community, can also dial (954) 535-2807 was reiterated. As a result of for the City to schedule your collaboration with neighboring appointment. cities and the partnership with Y Walmart, 140 vaccines went into arms by the time the mayor

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