comments feedPrison slaveryPrison labor: “Our government is abusing New Yorkers”Activists and state legislators are calling for a minimum wage for incarcerated individuals in New York, who currently earn between 10 and 65 cents per hour of work. Many have described the current situation as modern slavery, pointing to how the state benefits financially from the work carried […]
US: Healthcare professionals urge New Yorkers to get their annual breast cancer screenings
October 10, 2022 by Leave a Comment
From anmy With the COVID-19 pandemic easing, health care professionals are using Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October to remind women and those with prior histories of breast cancer in their families to schedule regular check-ups. MetroPlusHealth, a New York City-based healthcare and health insurance agency which offers eligible New Yorkers care at little to […]
US: Manhattan power is back on hours later as governor calls outage unacceptable
July 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment
By Faith Karimi and Steve Almasy From CNN New York (CNN)Power was fully restored in New York early Sunday after an outage left parts of the city in darkness for hours, leaving thousands trapped in subway cars and elevators, and people guiding traffic at intersections. The outage started Saturday evening and the lights were back […]
NY governor grants Caribbean nationals clemency
January 2, 2019 by Leave a Comment
From iNews Guyana NEW YORK, United States (CMC) — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has granted pardons to several Caribbean nationals, including five Jamaicans, convicted of minor drug and other offenses and saving them from possible deportation under the Donald Trump administration’s tough policy on immigrants. Cuomo said he was granting clemency to 29 immigrants “who […]
Caribbean American legislator opens campaign committee for NYC Public Advocate race
October 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By CMC From St Lucia Online (CMC) – Caribbean American New York City Council member, Jumaane Williams, says he intends to run for Public Advocate of the City of New York after opening a campaign committee with the Board of Elections in anticipation of the race. Williams, the son of Grenadian immigrants, who represents the […]
US City of Fear
July 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This story is a collaboration with The Marshall Project. From New York Mag 20,000 of New York’s immigrants have been identified for deportation since Trump took office. The rest worry they’ll be next. An estimated half a million New Yorkers are undocumented. Whether they’ve lived here for two months or 20 years, they came to this […]
This dog’s heartwarming rescue from a New York subway tunnel will bring you happy tears
February 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
BY BRIAN KOERBER From Mashable One lucky pup found compassiom in a most unlikely place: The New York City subway. Dakota, aka Loppy the dog, was playing with her dog walker at a park in Brooklyn on Friday when the pooch managed to escape. Frightened, the poor pup ran to a place that she knew […]
California’s plan to dodge tax reform is a shell game
January 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment
By JAZZ SHAW From Hot Air When the Democrats were railing against the tax cut package which was passed before Christmas, one of their major rallying cries was to say that Trump and the Republicans were “punishing blue states” by capping SALT deductions (the amount of state and local taxes you pay which may then […]
NY Halloween parade
November 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Halloween parade marches on amid heavy security after attack Associated Press From Las Vegas Sun NEW YORK — New York City’s always-surreal Halloween parade marched on Tuesday evening under the shadow of real fear, hours after a truck attack killed eight people on a busy city bike path in what authorities called an act of […]
Art from Guantánamo
October 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
By Erin Thompson From The Paris Review I’m looking at an image of a beach. Deserted, framed by distant headlands, with unsullied sands and clear waters. It is rendered in delicate strokes of watercolor. I’m thinking, as I have every time I have looked at the painting, about how much I would like to go […]
