Newly-elected New York City Council Speaker, Adrienne Adams, has appointed granddaughter of Jamaican immigrants, Crystal Hudson to chair the Committee on Aging on the council. Hudson's appointment was not the only Caribbean American legislator in Brooklyn appointed to top leadership positions. Adams also appointed Haitian-born Council Member...
TOKYO (AP) — Restaurants and bars will close early in Tokyo and a dozen other areas across Japan beginning Friday as the country widens COVID-19 restrictions due to the omicron variant, which has caused cases to surge to new highs in metropolitan areas. The restraint, which...
WASHINGTON (CMC) – The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr Carissa Etienne Wednesday called on countries to prioritise rapid antigen tests for those with the coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms and who are most at risk of spreading the disease. She said it was necessary...
As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerging from beneath the depths. Then darkness. The eruption severed Tonga's single fibre-optic cable, rendering...
Atahabih Germain Tue, January 18, 2022, 12:07 PM A South Florida police sergeant has been taken off the street after a video of him choking a fellow officer emerged last week. Sgt. Christopher Pullease has been relieved of his supervisory duties with the Sunrise, Florida, police department and...