FREE www.caribbeanlifenews.com QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN Jan. 26–Feb. 01, 2018 JAMAICA CRIME SPIKES 100 people murdered in the first 20 days of 2018 By Bert Wilkinson port for the lifeline tourism The tourists are still headed sector. to Jamaica’s scenic northwest- He told reporters that “we ern coast in record numbers haven’t seen any negative ten- despite the fact that authori- dencies. What we have had is Women march for change ties there enforcing a curfew an increase in visitors and some Bright pink “pussy hats” atop the heads of this group of young marchers as one to stamp out a spike in violent skittishness in some areas, as is holds up the sign: 2018—The Year of WOMEN. See story on Page 3. crime which has seen an aver- expected. The truth is, all the Photo by Tequila Minsky age of nearly five murders per attractions are open and have day for 2018 so far. visitors. They’re on the beaches Joint teams of heavily armed and in their hotels.” police are soldiers have been He was scheduled to meet rounding up criminal suspects with travel agencies and other NAACP files racial discrimination lawsuit and are patrolling most areas sector operators this week to in the western St. James par- both pore over figures and By Nelson A. King agency and its leaders’ move “Governmental decisions ish where nearly 340 people trends and to assure them that The largest and oldest civil “discriminates against immi- that target people based on were killed last year. Jamai- authorities are on top of the rights organization in the grants of color.” racial discrimination violate cans were jolted into silence situation. United States has filed a racial The suit asks the court to our Constitution,” said Sher- after the police administra- But even as Jamaican discrimination lawsuit against void the decision and rein- rilyn Ifill, president and direc- tion released figures this week authorities are trying to get on the US Department of Home- state the status for thousands tor-counsel of the NAACP showing that 100 people were top of the situation in the Mon- land Security (DHS), the cur- of Haitians, according to the Legal Defense and Education- murdered in the first 20 days of tego Bay area, colleagues in rent head of the agency, DHS Public Broadcasting Service al Fund in a statement. “The 2018. Police have also reported Trinidad are also holding their Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, News Hour (PBS). decision by the Department of that the heavy presence of the heads in despair about a similar and the former acting head PBS said the NAACP Legal Homeland Security to rescind joint services in that part of spike in crime that has seen the of the agency, Elaine C. Duke, Defense Fund, which is a sep- TPS status for Haitian immi- the island has led to a notice- murder rate move from one in over the Trump administra- arate organization from the grants was infected by racial able reduction in gangland every 36 hours to two per day. tion’s decision to rescind Tem- NAACP, is representing the discrimination. activities but while civil socie- Local newspapers had count- porary Protected Status (TPS) NAACP and its Haitian mem- “Every step taken by the ty, opposition and government ed 48 killings up to Wednes- for Haitian immigrants. bers and says DHS “irrational department to reach this deci- officials are at their witts end to day, Jan. 24 with the execution The lawsuit, which the and discriminatory govern- sion reveals that far from a come up with solutions, Tour- of a young man in southern NAACP Legal Defense and ment action, denying Haitian rational and fact-based deter- ism Minister Edmund Bartlett Trinidad in Tuesday. 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Blacks, browns and whites showed up on the Upper West Side for to overturn last Saturday’s second national Women’s March. By the Mayor’s estimation there were election results 200,000, one among the many marches in major —Los Angeles had 600,000—as By Nelson A. King well as smaller U.S. cities around the The main opposition New Demo- country. cratic Party (NDP) in St. Vincent The Women’s March also marked the and the Grenadines is continuing its first anniversary of the Trump administra- long battle to overturn the results in tion, falling on the morning of the short- the Dec. 9, 2015 general elections in lived government shutdown. St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The stage for the program was at 60th Respect and action — these signs urge. Photo by Tequila Minsky While the incumbent Unity Street and Central Park West, with seating Labour Party (ULP) administration for the disabled. 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