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Vol. 32, Issue 41 BROOKLYN EDITION October 8-14, 2021
Eric Adams, Democratic candidate for New York City Mayor, gestures as people gather
for the Hometown Heroes ticker tape parade, to honor essential workers for their work
during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), up New York City’s “Canyon
of Heroes” in lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., July 7, 2021. REUTERS/
Brendan McDermid/File
Adams: Combat root causes of gun violence
By Nelson A. King
Brooklyn Borough President
Eric Adams on Tuesday
joined New York City Housing
Authority (NYCHA) residents,
violence interrupters
and elected leaders to heighten
his call to combat the root
causes of gun violence and
the chronic disrepair of public
housing amid a spike in shootings
targeting young people at
public housing developments
in Brooklyn.
They gathered outside
Fiorentino Plaza, a complex in
East New York where 16-yearold
Cahlil Pennington was
fatally shot last Tuesday afternoon.
Adams, a 22-year veteran
of the New York City Police
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HAITIANS
FACE
DESPAIR
The Bahamas gov’t sends
back Haitian refugees
than 25 percent of The Bahamian
population but the country’s
new government says it is in no
mood to accept anymore.
The administration of Prime
Minister Phillip Davis, which won
general elections just three weeks
ago, said it has already sent back
more than 500 while ordering
the coastguard to deploy all of
its assets to ensure additional
boatloads of refugees do not land
in some of its far flung southern
islands.
Government says it has noted
a spike in boat people heading
north to The Bahamas in the
aftermath of the early July assassination
of Haitian President,
Jovenel Moise as well as the obvious
hardships stemming for the
island’s most recent but devastat-
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Department (NYPD) and longtime
anti-violence advocate,
spoke about urgent actions
that are needed on the local
and national level to address
the gun violence epidemic.
Joining him were Assembly
Member Latrice Walker, Council
Member Adrienne Adams,
Council Member Darma Diaz,
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By Bert Wilkinson
In recent months, Guyana
imposed travel restrictions on
Haitians entering the country
and neighboring Suriname did
basically the same. Now, nearby,
The Bahamas, a favorite destination
for desperate Haitian refugees,
has begun an aggressive
campaign to return more than
1000 Haitians who beached on
some of its southeastern islands
in the first week of October.
Authorities said this week they
will repatriate every single Haitian
who lands on any of its islands in
the archipelago as the country of
about 400,000 is already overrun
with large numbers of Haitians
who have made The Bahamas
their home in recent decades.
Latest estimates indicate that
Haitians could account for more
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