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Vol. 32, Issue 34 BROOKLYN EDITION August 20-26, 2021
NY ‘dodged
bullet’ in
2020 Census:
Immigration
group
Immigration advocate
Murad Awawdeh. REUTERS/
Carlo Allegri/File
CARICOM OFFERS
EXPERTS TO HAITI
CDEMA
prepares to
help after
devastating
earthquake
By Bert Wilkinson
Already signaling it has limited
resources, the umbrella Caribbean
disaster response agency
Wednesday readied a team to
head to earthquake-devastated
Haiti and the umbrella Caribbean
Development Bank (CDB)
said it was also on standby to
help the regional bloc’s most
populous member country as
rescue efforts heightened and
as residents sleep in the open
for fear of smaller quakes.
At the start of the week, the
Caribbean Disaster Emergency
Management Agency (CDEMA)
had said it was ready to fly
experts to Haiti to help with
relief coordination efforts but
those were stymied by the passage
of Tropical Storm Grace
which dumped tons of rain
on the island as Haiti endures
another natural disaster on top
of a string of unfortunate events
in recent years.
Haiti which shares the island
of Hispaniola with The Dominican
Republic, was hit by a magnitude
7.2 earthquake at the
weekend. Authorities have listed
An injured woman is carried to the the Immaculée Conception hospital in Les Cayes,
Haiti, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the
southwestern part of the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) Matias Delacroix
By Nelson A. King
The New York Immigration
Coalition (NYIC), an
umbrella policy and advocacy
organization for more
than 200 groups in New York
State, said on Friday that the
state “dodged a bullet” in the
2020 Census.
“If not for the hard work
of community-based organizations
like ours, the NY
Counts Coalition members,
and census workers across
the state, New York would
have lost more than one
Congressional seat,” Murad
Awawdeh, NYIC’s executive
director,” told Caribbean
Life.
“As a result of this concerted
effort, New York has
a better picture of who its
residents are and can make
plans to serve them better,”
he added. “But now, we
must build on this victory
and ensure that immigrant
New Yorkers receive the fair
representation and political
power their numbers warrant.”
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