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February 2021 Edition PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID FEBRUARY 2021 MIAMI, FL PERMIT NO. 7315 Tel: (305) 238-2868 1-800-605-7516 [email protected] 3232 [email protected] We cover your world Vol. 32 No. 3 www.caribbeantoday.com THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE WITH THE LARGEST PROVEN CIRCULATION IN FLORIDA GUARANTEED REMEMBERING Cicely Tyson Daughter Of Caribbean Immigrants... Page 3 Celebration For Biden’s Immigration Agenda (Photo credit: AP)… Page 7 Is Dale Holness Running For Congress? … Page 14 Photo: Elle Magazine Image INSIDE News ....................................................2 Arts/Entertainment ............................11 Sports ................................................16 Feature ...............................................7 Health ................................................12 Black History Month .........................17 Viewpoint ............................................9 Food ..................................................13 Travel .................................................19 READ CARIBBEAN TODAY ONLINE AT CARIBBEANTODAY.COM 2 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • FEBRUARY 2021 Over 11,276,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years NEWS Regional Caribbean News Round Up Here’s a synopsis of all the major country would be on a two-week Monday. Caribbean news from the region lockdown next month in an effort All the victims were you can use: to reduce the risk of further chopped. One was found dead on COVID-19 spread, Mottley said the compound of the Kingston REGIONAL saving the lives of Barbadians and St. Andrew Parish Court Foreign Direct Investment in was a priority. (Civil and Tax Divisions), two the Caribbean fell by 18 percent Lamenting the deaths of were killed on Hanover Street in last year, according to latest date three elderly people in a one- central Kingston, and the body from UNCTAD, though that drop week period, which marked the of a fourth was discovered on the was far less than 2019. first COVID-deaths since the Mother White Bridge on Spanish The report, released Sunday, seven recorded up to April 2020, Town Road in west Kingston. said the FDI inflows into the the Prime Minister said the two- Two others were severely Caribbean last year was just week period of “national pause” wounded. USD 3.2 billion, as the region was necessary. Prime Minister Holness, was hit by COVID-19, which horrified by the murders, said the drastically impacted investment GUYANA Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi has tested positive for attacks represented a new kind of in the tourism sector. The news comes as Hess COVID-19. savagery, especially given what However, there was Corp. has reported an E&P appeared to be the serial nature somewhat good news for the capital and exploratory budget SARS-Co-V-2 British variant methamphetamine, 952 weapons of the attacks. Dominican Republic, which even of $780 million for 2021 for diagnosed in the country and US$51.5 million, 1,066 The Prime Minister said though it has seen the highest offshore Guyana developments were British nationals who arrests, 47,872 apprehensions of the matter was discussed at rate of COVID-19 infections in the oil sector. were diagnosed on December illegal migrants. length during Monday’s Cabinet and deaths in the Caribbean, And as the World Bank’s 17 and December 23, 2020. meeting, particularly with saw its FDI inflows drop by Board of Executive Directors The other three cases are St. JAMAICA Minister with responsibility for only 9 percent. The country was approved US$13.5 million Lucian nationals who were also Prime Minister Andrew Local Government Desmond helped by investments in the to support the ongoing diagnosed that month. Holness has committed to McKenzie, as well as Mayor manufacturing sector and new Guyana Secondary Education All five cases have since providing greater protection for Delroy Williams. He said the two projects in medical devices. Improvement Project. The made a full recovery, the the homeless community after ministers are exploring further The news comes as the project, which aims to improve Ministry said. several pre-dawn attacks left four ways of providing service and Economic Commission for Latin teaching in mathematics and On December 14, 2020, homeless people dead and two protection, both immediate and America and the Caribbean increase enrollment in secondary the UK Public Health Agency others battling for their lives. long-term, for the homeless (ECLAC), said Friday that the schools, will provide equipment reported a COVID-19 variant The police are investigating population. region’s foreign trade in 2020 and training to support that had been in circulation what they said appeared to had its worst performance innovative technology-assisted from September 20, 2020, be coordinated attacks on the Rewritten and Compiled From since the global financial crisis education delivery methods. within the UK. vulnerable men in downtown CMC, NewsAmericasNow.com of 2008-2009 because of the Kingston, in the early hours of Y economic crisis prompted by SURINAME BAHAMAS the global COVID-19 pandemic Suriname’s President The US Customs and and the restrictions imposed by Chandrikapersad Santokhi has Border Protection (CBP) agency, St. Lucia Independence governments to stop its spread. tested positive for COVID-19. agents from its Air and Marine In its annual report, unveiled Santokhi, however, said he Operations (AMO) and US St. Lucia turns 42 on on Friday, ECLAC estimated was feeling strong and had federal partners seized about Feb. 22, 2021 but this that the value of regional exports no symptoms of the virus, but US$500,000 in undeclared year independence dropped -16 percent in 2020. would remain at home on the currency after stopping a vessel, in the pandemic will However, FDI flows to advice of health authorities. heading to the Bahamas, for an also be one without the Caribbean in 2019, had He is in isolation at his private outbound inspection near Fort one of the island’s reported a worst decline. In the residence where he said he will Lauderdale, Florida. most revered cultural Caribbean, excluding offshore be working for the next few CBP said the Fort icons and foremost financial centers, flows declined days. Lauderdale Marine Unit, Miami composers. by 32 percent in 2019. That So far, the Ministers of Marine Unit and Miami Air Charles Cadet, contraction was owed to lower Foreign Affairs, International and Marine Branch Multi- who dedicated much of FDI – $2.5 billion – in the Business & International Role Enforcement Aircraft his life to preserving St Dominican Republic, the largest Cooperation, Spatial Zoning and crew stopped the vessel and Lucia’s culture through recipient in the sub-region, Environment and Finance and coordinated with US Homeland music, died on Sunday, Charles Cadet (YouTube screengrab) Jan. 24, 2021, after a despite strong economic growth Planning have tested negative. Security Investigations (HSI) St. Lucia’s Minister in the prolonged illness. He was 96. there in 2018. So far almost 8,550 cases and the Drug Enforcement Ministry of Tourism, Information One of his most popular Flows to Haiti and Jamaica have been recorded in Suriname Administration (DEA) during the and Broadcasting, Culture songs included ‘Poinsettia also had fallen in 2019, to since the start of the pandemic and vessel inspection. and Creative Industries with Blossoms,’ which is described $105 million and $775 million, the death toll has reached 156. A K-9 alerted to the center responsibility for Culture and as a cult classic. Cadet also respectively. console during a search of the Creative Industries, Fortuna collaborated with Roderick ST. LUCIA vessel, CBP said, where agents Belrose, described him as a gem Walcott on the musical, ‘The BARBADOS The St. Lucia Ministry of discovered the currency in the who gave of himself for his Banjo Man,’ and was officially Prime Minister Mia Mottley Health and Wellness has reported lining of a cooler and laundry country and worked exceedingly a National Cultural Icon. He has acknowledged that the that it had received confirmation detergent boxes. hard. economy could lose as much as from the Caribbean Public In 2020, CBP said also received the Order of the British Empire in recognition of US$12.5 million as a result of Health Agency (CARPHA) of AMO enforcement actions Rewritten from CMC and St. his work and the St Lucia Cross. the two-week lockdown that will five cases of the United Kingdom resulted in the seizure or Lucia Times. go into effect next month. strain of COVID-19 on the disruption of 194,220 pounds Cadet also was the first recipient However, during a televised island. of cocaine, 278,492 pounds of of the M&C Fine Arts Lifetime Y address in which she said the It said two cases of the marijuana, 15,985 pounds of Achievement Award. Most of us try to attract other people by the friends we keep and the way we carry ourselves. If you are going to a party or a formal function, don’t you dress well? We all want to promote a favorable impression of ourselves to other people we meet and talk to. If we agree on that, then think of this. Why should it be any different for your business? If you want to project a favorable image of your company, in order to win customers, you should keep your company with good friends and...dress your company well in... Over 11,276,000 copies printed and delivered in 31 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • FEBRUARY 2021 • 3 NEWS Remembering CICELY TYSON: The Daughter Of Caribbean Immigrants in the celebrated series East Side/ her work in Sounder, and also actress to win an Emmy Award Davis in a ceremony conducted West Side (1963–1964). She also won the NSFC Best Actress for Outstanding Lead Actress by Atlanta mayor Andrew had a role in the soap opera, ‘The and NBR Best Actress Awards. in a Television Movie for her Young at the home of actor Bill Guiding Light.’ Her career exploded after with performance in that movie.
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