By Tangerine Clarke
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced
by the end of this week, her office
would have already distributed more
than 14 million tests to schools, and
she will continue efforts of sending
two tests home with every K-12 student
ahead of the winter break.
She said testing is a critical tool to
keep ‘our kids safe in the classroom,
noting we’re sending two tests home
with every K-12 student ahead of the
midwinter break.
Tests are widely available across
the state, via this link https://coronavirus.
health.ny.gov/covid-19
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“We’re making it even easier
for kids to get vaccinated with 76
new Vax for Kids pop-up sites set
up to date. Vaccines are safe and
effective, and over 1.5 million New
York kids already have received at
least one vaccine dose. Parents &
guardians, if you’ve been waiting
to get your child vaccinated, now’s
the time to do it, said Gov. Hochul,
noting that persons could make
an appointment by going to this
link- https://covid19vaccine.health.
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“Our efforts focused on controlling
the spread of COVID in nursing
homes are working — cases are
down 30 percent in nursing homes as
of Jan. 22. We have deployed 2.2 million
tests to nursing homes and congregate
care settings already, with
200,000 more coming this week.”
“When it comes to our fight against
the winter surge, we are trending
in the right direction and making
progress. For six days straight, our
COVID positivity rate has been below
10 percent, the lowest since Dec. 20,”
said the governor.
“And thanks to New Yorkers wearing
their masks and getting vaccinated,
boosted, and tested, we’ve
been able to bring new positive case
numbers down to a third of what
they were just two weeks ago — and
hospitalizations are down by nearly
2,700 over the past week,” she said.
“We’re not through this surge just
yet. We’re working hard to bring
New Yorkers more tests, more testing
locations, and more places to get vaccinated
and boosted — please, keep
using these tools,” states the release.
Caribbean Life, JAN. 28-FEB. 3, 2022 3
Barbadian-born Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix. Jovia Radix, Esq.
Adams appoints prominent Caribbean
jurist as City’s Corporation counsel
By Nelson A. King
Newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric
Adams on Friday appointed Barbadianborn
Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix as the
City’s Corporation Counsel, becoming the
first Caribbean-born woman to serve in
that capacity in the city’s history.
As Corporation Counsel, Justice Hinds-
Radix will lead the City’s Law Department,
which is primarily responsible for providing
legal representation to the City, the Mayor,
other elected officials, and City agencies in
all affirmative and defensive civil litigation.
Justice Hinds-Radix, who currently
serves as an associate justice of the New
York State Appellate Division, Second
Department, a position she was appointed
to in 2012, conducted the Mayor’s swearing
in ceremony, on Jan. 1 at the Times
Square New Year’s Celebration in midtown
Manhattan.
The eminent jurist, who, in 2020, was
designated a member of the New York State
Constitutional Bench, is highly likely to be
confirmed as Corporation Counsel by the
51-member New York City Council.
“The Law Department plays an indispensable
role in providing the legal architecture
needed for the administration to
carry out its vision,” said Mayor Adams, the
second Black man to become Mayor of New
York City after the late David N. Dinkins, in
appointing Justice Hinds-Radix as Corporation
Counsel.
“Sylvia Hinds-Radix has not only the
brilliant legal min but also the emotional
intelligence needed to lead the department
as our next Corporation Counsel,” he
added. “I congratulate her on her historymaking
appointment.”
Prior to her appointment to the Appellate
Division, Justice Hinds-Radix served
as Administrative Judge for Civil Matters in
the Second Judicial District for three and
a half years.
In her capacity as Administrative Judge,
she oversaw both the New York State
Supreme Court, Civil Term and the New
York City Civil Court, which also encompasses
the Housing Court of the City of
New York.
Hinds-Radix, the first and current president
of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean
American Lawyers Association (CALA)m
was elected to the Supreme Court, Kings
County (Brooklyn) in November of 2004,
and served as a New York City Civil Court
Judge, from 2002 through 2004, spending
her first year in the Criminal Court of
Kings County.
She began her legal career at District
Council (DC) 37 Municipal Employees
Legal Services, where she was a supervising
attorney. DC 37 is the largest union
representing municipal workers in New
York City.
In February 2021, New York’s Unified
Court System’s Committee to Celebrate
Black History Month, The Tribune Society,
Inc., and the Judicial Friends Association
bestowed the Hon. Theodore “Ted” Jones
Lifetime Achievement Award on Justice
Hinds-Radix.
Justice Hinds-Radix received the award
during the groups’ annual Black History
Month celebration.
Brooklyn-born Theodore Theopolis
Jones, Jr. (Mar. 10, 1944 – Nov. 6, 2012)
was a judge on New York State’s Court of
Appeals.
In July 2020, Justice Hinds-Radix,
a graduate of Howard University School of
Law in Washington, D.C., was elected president
of CALA.
On her election at the time, she said
she epitomized the statement, “it takes a
village to raise a child,” by the outstanding
work she does in giving back to her own
community.
A staunch advocate for children’s education,
every Saturday morning, Justice
Hinds-Radix said she and her family tutor
young people at the Brooklyn-based Barbados
Ex-Police Association.
She is also a former President of the
Nathan K. Sobel American Inns of Court,
the Second Vice President of The Judicial
Friends, a Board Member of the Women
in the Courts Committee and a member of
the Board of Directors for the St. Gabriel’s
Senior Citizens Center and the St. John’s
Bread and Life Agency in Brooklyn.
Justice Hinds-Radix served as the president
of the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association
and the Supreme Court Justice of the
City of New York.
She is also a member of several organizations,
including the Brooklyn Bar Association;
the New York State Association
of Supreme Court Justices; the New York
State Bar Association; Catholic Lawyers
Guild; Columbian Lawyers of Brooklyn;
the Association of Black Women Attorneys;
the New York County Lawyers Association;
JALBCA; Puerto Rican Bar Association;
Latino Judges Association; The Tribune
Society; the Metropolitan Black Bar Association;
the National Bar Association’s Judicial
Section; and the Caribbean American
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc.,
as well as being an active participant in
several workshops conducted at the Judicial
Institute.
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