FREE www.caribbeanlifenews.com BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND EDITION Feb. 09–Feb. 15, 2018 SMOKERS GET A BREAK Antigua legalizes 15 grams of marijuana for personal use By Bert Wilkinson agents. To some in Antigua, the tim- As Browne told a morning RELEASED ing and passing of a bill legal- session of the House of Rep- izing the possession of up to resentatives on Tuesday, the On the Thursday, just days after his release from upstate detention, Ravi Ragbir 15 grams of marijuana for per- island is taking its cue from joined others for Jericho Walk, seven times silent walk around 26 Federal Plaza. sonal use, have everything to many countries in the devel- See story on Page 3. Photo by Tequila Minsky do with upcoming general elec- oped world, which have taken a tions but Prime Minister Gas- rather enlightened approach to ton Browne says Antigua and marijuana possession for rec- Barbuda simply doesn’t want reational and medicinal usage to be left behind and is tired of while waiting on other govern- jailing young people for having ments in the 15-nation Carib- NYPD cops hit with lawsuits small amounts of cannabis on bean Community to approach their person. the issue as a bloc of nations By Nelson A. King Vincentian Dr. Kendall Stewart publication. 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King Despite his release from detention, In returning to the site of his Jan. Ragbir could face detention as soon as 11 arrest, Trinidadian-born immigrant next week — with federal authorities rights activist Ravi Ragbir issued a mes- ordering him to report for deportation sage of resistance against the forces try- on Feb. 10, the Daily News said. ing to deport him and others. He and his wife attended the State of “There is a psychological warfare out the Union address in Washington one there, and they want us to be weak,” day after he was set free. said Ragbir outside 26 Federal Plaza in In an impassioned rebuke of the lower Manhattan on Thursday. “They Trump administration’s immigration want us to cave ... so our spirits are policies, Judge Katherine B. Forrest, a broken.” Federal District Court judge in Manhat- Ragbir, 43, was released Monday from tan, ordered the immediate release of US federal detention following a federal Ragbir, calling his abrupt detention on judge’s ruling that keeping him behind Jan. 11 unconstitutional and cruel. bars was “unnecessarily cruel.” Judge Forrest, of the United States The executive director of the New District Court of the Southern District Sanctuary Coalition was arrested and of New York, said Ragbir, who has been locked up last month after appearing ordered to leave the US by immigration for a regularly scheduled check-in with officials, should have been entitled to immigration officials in lower Manhat- “the freedom to say goodbye.” tan, according to the New York Daily “It ought not to be — and it has never News. before been — that those who have “It’s been a long, long journey,” said lived without incident in this country Ragbir, who migrated to the US 27 for years are subjected to treatment years ago. “As I continued to walk, I got we associate with regimes we revile as stronger and stronger.” unjust, regimes where those who have Ragbir and about 50 other protesters long lived in a country may be taken joined in the so-called “Jericho Walk” without notice from streets, home and outside the federal building. The dem- work. And sent away,” said Judge For- onstration is modeled after the Israel- rest, reading from the seven-page writ- mmigrant activist Ravi Ragbir, right, receives The Bishop’s Cross from Bish- ites’ march around the city of Jericho as ten order she delivered soon after oral op Lawrence C. Provenzano,left, on Sunday, February 4, 2018 in Brooklyn. written in the Bible. arguments. This is a rare honor given to individuals in recognition of “exceptional ser- vice to the Church and to the community it serves” a spokesperson to the After seven single-file trips around “We are not that country; and woe diocese said. St. Ann and The Holy Trinity 157 Montague street. the block, the protesters stopped and be the day that we become that country Debbie Egan-Chin / New York Daily News screamed at the building, the Daily under a fiction that laws allow it,” she News said. added. “The court finds that when this “It feels good to march for him, but country allowed (Ragbir) to become a elty when the time came. deportation on several fronts, according it feels better marching with him,” said part of our community fabric, allowed “By denying (Ragbir) these rights, to the New York Times. the Rev. Micah Bucey of the Judson him to build a life with and among us the government has acted wrongly,” In a stinging response, the US Immi- Memorial Church. “We’re trepidatious, and to enjoy the liberties and freedom Judge Forrest continued. gration and Customs Enforcement because we don’t know what the next that come with that, it committed itself Ragbir was released Monday night (ICE) agency described Ragbir as “an steps are. But for now, we celebrate the to allowance of an orderly departure from the Orange County Correctional aggravated felon” in reference to his justice has been served. We march with when the time came, and it committed Facility in Goshen, Orange County, New wire fraud conviction in 2000, saying it our feet, we pray with our feet.” itself to avoidance of unnecessary cru- York, and will continue to fight his was “actively exploring” an appeal.