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Vol. 32, Issue 23 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN JUNE 4-10, 2021
Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Zellnor Y. Myrie.
Myrie’s gun industry liability
bill passes State Senate
By Nelson A. King
New York State Senate
on Wednesday voted to pass
S.1048-A, legislation, sponsored
by Brooklyn Democratic
Sen. Zellnor Y. Myrie, aimed at
the gun industry’s immunity
from civil lawsuits stemming
from the dangers posed by its
products.
“Over the past year, neighborhoods
across New York
have been struggling with a
sharp rise in gun violence,”
said Myrie, who represents
the 20th Senate District in
Central Brooklyn. “Communities
of color, from Brookhaven
to Buffalo and every place
in between, are besieged by
an influx of guns from other
states, sold and manufactured
by companies with little interest
in how their products are
used or misused.
“Since 2005, the courthouse
doors have been closed to anyone
seeking to protect their
rights against these irresponsible
businesses,” he added.
“It’s past time to change that.
Enough is enough.”
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COVID
DEATHS
SOAR
Pandemic batters Southern
Caribbean in May
By Bert Wilkinson
As some Caribbean Community
countries including Jamaica
move to slightly ease Covid-
19 restrictions, the situation
in the big three nations in the
south continues to deteriorate
rapidly with deaths and positive
cases spiking and as some
medical institutions run out of
available beds.
Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname
this week all reported
record numbers of fatalities in
May and most in government
and the medical fraternity
believe that the situation will
get appreciably worse before it
gets better.
So dreadful is the case in
Suriname that the umbrella
Chamber of Commerce has
donated a large assembly hall
to the government to be used
as a special makeshift hospital
as most of the regular
facilities are running out of
space. The administration of
President Chan Santokhi last
week put aside any lingering
national pride relating to its
former colonizer and asked The
Netherlands to send a team
of doctors and other specialists
to beef up the local capacity.
Santokhi also asked The
Hague to send a shipment of
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