FREE www.caribbeanlifenews.com QUEENS/BRONX/MANHATTAN EDITION Mar. 7-13, 2014 INSIDE: LEARN TO EARN SPECIAL READER BONUS NEW HOROSCOPE CAREER TRAINING FREE coupons to save you CASH SECTION INSIDE UNEASE ABOUT RODNEY A BLACK HISTORY SALUTE Members of Ifetayo Cultural Academy in a African Dance routine performance Monday at PROBE the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza Skylight Gallery, during the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Black History Month celebration. See Page 3. Photo William Farrington Worried about the mandate By Bert Wilkinson an jurist Sir Richard Cheltenham A Caribbean-led commission to head up the probe into Rod- US extends TPR for Haitians of inquiry into the June 1980 ney’s assassination after years of bomb blast assassination of inter- campaigning by opposition out- By Nelson A. King to extend their TPS status must sion also allows TPS re-registrants nationally-acclaimed historian fits, activists in the governing The United States Citizenship re-register during a 60-day peri- to apply for a new Employment and US Black Power Movement People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Immigration Services (USCIS) od that runs from Mar. 3, 2014, Authorization Document (EAD). activist Walter Rodney could soon and local and regional rights says Secretary of Homeland Secu- through May 2, 2014. It said eligible Haitian TPS ben- get underway in his native Guy- groups. rity Jeh Johnson will extend Tem- “U.S. Citizenship and Immigra- eficiaries who re-register during ana, but even as preparations are In the past week, the terms of porary Protected Status (TPS) for tion Services (USCIS) encourages the 60-day period and request a being heightened for the probe, reference for the commission was eligible nationals of Haiti for an beneficiaries to re-register as soon new EAD will receive one with an controversy is brewing about the published in local newspapers for additional 18 months, effective Jul. as possible once the 60-day period expiration date of Jan. 22, 2016. mandate the three-person body all to see but the main opposi- 23, 2014 through Jan. 22, 2016. begins,” it said here in a state- USCIS said it “recognizes that has been given to work with. tion A Partnership For National USCIS said on Monday that cur- ment. some re-registrants may not receive Authorities in Guyana late last Unity (APNU) is already signaling rent Haitian beneficiaries seeking USCIS said the 18-month exten- Continued on Page 4 month named respected Barbadi- Continued on Page 4 Updated daily at www.caribbeanlifenews.com • Page 2 Caribbean Life Caribbean CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP THE NEWS FROM BACK HOME Caribbean center and a new apparel manu- Mar. 7-13, 2014 7-13, • Mar. The Pan American Health facturer that invests part of its Organization (PAHO) is urging profits in its employees and their Caribbean countries to speed up families. adaption of laws to control the tobacco “epidemic,” saying that, Jamaica despite progress in the countries Cannabis Commercial and of the Americas, the epidemic Medicinal Research Task Force continues to grow. (CCMRT) says it has been assured In a new report, PAHO, the that Jamaica will this year Q regional office for the Americas decriminalize marijuana as the of the World Health Organization island seeks to establish a medici- (WHO), said applying at least six nal marijuana industry. measures could help prevent one CCMRT leader, Dealana Seiv- million deaths annually. eright said in a statement, said The six measures comprise the assurance had come from large, graphic and health warn- Science, Technology, Energy and ings on tobacco packaging that Minister Phillip Paulwell. effectively inform consumers. The statement quoted Paulwell They include as telling members of the task protect young force that “ganja will be decrimi- people from nalized in Jamaica this year and aggressive tobac- emphasized that Jamaica can- co industry not be allowed to behind on the marketing; banning all forms of issue. tobacco advertising, promotion He also reiter- and sponsorship; monitor use of ated the multiple tobacco products; protect peo- Accomodating climate change economic, social ple from exposure of second-hand and cultural ben- smoke; offer help to quit smok- Ancel Bhagwandeen with his hydroponic unit for growing vegetables indoors. The unit makes efits that Jamai- ing and raise taxes on tobacco use of smart electronics. See page 16. IPS/Jewel Fraser ca stands to ben- products. efit if the laws are not adjusted PAHO said there are 145 million sooner rather than later. smokers in the region, accounting directions and identified China investment arm of our Economic given up due to delays. Last year, CARICOM countries for 12 percent of the world’s total, and Latin America as two of the Citizenship Program which we Attorney General Anil Nand- agreed to discuss the issue of estimating that about one million new paths to be allowed. believe is the way to go towards lall says the previous number of decriminalizing marijuana for people lose their lives as a conse- Brathwaite, who left recently addressing economic develop- judges was “wholly inadequate to health reasons at the inter-ses- quence of tobacco ever year. to take up his appointment in ment issues, employment and cope” with the volume of cases. sional meeting in St. Vincent and Beijing, noted that tourism, trade greater investment in our tour- the Grenadines in March. Barbados and business were key areas of ism industry,” he added. Haiti But regional leaders, who met The Barbados government says interest, noting that 83 million Range Development is cur- Former U.S. President Bill in Trinidad last September, said it wants a speedy conclusion for Chinese tourists traveled annual- rently developing Park Hyatt, an Clinton recently visited Haiti to that a decision has been taken an air services agreement with ly, spending an estimated US$102 ultra-luxury five-star resort hotel get look at some of the projects to have the Guyana-based CARI- China as it hoped to lure visi- billion. in St. Kitts-Nevis. that his private foundation has COM Secretariat conduct further tors and investors from the Asian The statement gave no indica- supported to help the country research on the medical and legal country. tion when or if negotiations for an Guyana recover from a devastating earth- implications of decriminalizing A government statement air services agreement between Guyana has increased the quake in 2010. marijuana. providing details of a meeting the two countries have started. number of judges to tackle the He began a visit with a tour of between the island’s Ambassa- country’s daunting backlog of at a solar-powered primary school Trinidad dor Designate to the People’s Dominica criminal and civil matters. in Cite Soliel, a forsaken seaside The investigation of white col- Republic of China, Dr Chelston Dominica has signed an agree- The number of judges eligible slum that is one of the Caribbean lar crime in Trinidad and Toba- Brathwaite, quoted Prime Minis- ment with the Dubai-based Range to sit in Guyana’s high court has nation’s poorest go is non-existent, said attorney ter Stuart as saying that if Barba- Development Limited (RDL) for been boosted from 11 to 20. Presi- neighborhoods. David West, an expert in anti- dos was in the development phase the construction of a 125-room dent Donald Ramotar announced The Clin- money laundering. of its relationship high-end luxury hotel in the recently. ton Foundation Trinidad and Tobago has had with China and it north of the island. Guyana’s bar has supported zero prosecutions and zero con- was now neces- Prime Minister Roosevelt association and the Institution Mixte Union des victions for money laundering sary to familiar- Skerrit said the other groups Aportes-Prodev in planting trees since institutions were mandated ize the Chinese Memorandum of have said for and a garden, meant to help feed to report sus- with this country in an effort to Understanding years that more the school’s 200 students. picious trans- attract Chinese tourists and busi- (MoU) is the first judges were And it helped organize actions to the ness people to the island. agreement to be needed to handle thousands of a donation of 64 solar panels Financial Intelli- Stuart acknowledge that the signed under the old cases. by NRG Energy Inc. valued at gence Unit (FIU) local economy had become struc- investment arm of the Economic Some accused have been wait- US$100,000. in 2010; from turally integrated into the econo- Citizenship Program. ing for more than five years to have During his visit, Clinton also 2010 to 2013 the FIU has reported mies of the United States, the “This is the first MoU the gov- their cases heard. Several civil toured a training school for Hai- TT$1.2 billion worth of suspicious United Kingdom and Canada, but ernment is signing under the Cit- cases had to be dropped because tian coffee farmers in a remote transactions. insisted there was a need in new izen by Investment Program, the litigants have died, migrated or village, as well as a recycling Compiled by Azad Ali Page 3 • Black History Life Caribbean Medical Synergy 2014 7-13, • Mar. By Nelson A. King ident and chief executive Six black doctors were officer of Brooklyn Hospi- honored for their respec- tal Center, said at the cere- tive contributions to the mony. “And that makes me medical community when proud to be part of that.” the Brooklyn Hospital Dr. Primm was born in staged its inaugural “Black Williamson, West Virginia, History Medical Synergy” but later relocated to the awards event on Feb. 27 at Bronx in 1941. He received the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- his medical degree from den.