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Vol. 31, Issue 4 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN January 24-30, 2020
Outgoing Brooklyn Democratic Party boss, Frank Seddio pins his successor Assemblywoman
Rodneyse Bichotte. Hassan Bakriddin
By Nelson A. King
As Americans on Monday
celebrated the birthday of slain
civil rights leader the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., a Haitian
American legislator in
New York created history by
becoming the first woman and
first Caribbean American to be
elected chair of the Brooklyn
Democratic Party, otherwise
known as the Kings County
Democratic Party.
New York State Assemblywoman
Rodneyse Bichotte,
the daughter of Haitian immigrants,
who represents the 42nd
Assembly District in Brooklyn,
replaced Frank Seddio, 74, who
retired last Wednesday as chair
of the Brooklyn Democratic
Party.
Bichotte, who is also a Democratic
State Committeewoman
for the 42nd District, was
the first Haitian American in
New York City to be elected to
the New York State Assembly.
“With a new decade comes
the need for a fresh perspective
and a commitment to transparency
as Brooklyn’s diverse
Continued on Page 20
By Bert Wilkinson
The Caribbean Community’s
most resource-rich country
on Monday joined a long
list of nations globally as crude
oil exporters as the country
shipped away its first million
barrels of oil from an offshore
field that American super major
ExxonMobil and an international
consortium discovered back
in 2015.
Elated government officials
and Exxon announced the
development overnight Monday
saying that the oil tanker, the
MV Yannis P, is on its way to the
US with its cargo of one million
barrels of sweet, light crude.
Loading began on Saturday
from a massive Floating Production,
Storage and Offloading
(FPSO) vessel, which is being
used to store oil being produced
from the Liza-1 oil field, about
120 miles offshore Guyana.
The loading began just hours
after Exxon executives, government
officials and a large group
of VIPs celebrated Guyana officialy
becoming an oil producer
with a glitzy cocktail party in the
city. The military later on Friday
night coordinated an impressive
fireworks display to mark the
event, watched by thousands on
the Atlantic seashore.
Guyana now joins Trinidad
and Suriname as oil exporters
in the 15-nation bloc of
nations. Barbados also produces
about 1,600 barrels of oil daily
from a small collection on land
wells. The Guyana discovery
has sparked massive interest in
the region with The Bahamas,
Jamaica, Barbados and Grenada
all moving to step up exploration
in recent months.
Continued on Page 20
Bichotte makes history in Brooklyn
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