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Vol. 32, Issue 24 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN June 11-17, 2021
Worlds’ fastest woman
Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce reacts after the women’s 100m. Two-time
Olympic 100m champion Fraser-Pryce clocked the world’s fastest women’s 100m
in nearly 33 years and the fourth-best time in history during the Jamaica Olympic
Destiny Track Meet in Kingston, Jamaica, June 5, 2021. See story on Page 53
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By Nelson A. King
Brooklyn Democratic Sen.
Zellnor Y. Myrie on Tuesday
celebrated the passage of a
measure in both houses of the
New York State Legislature
aimed at the gun industry’s
immunity from civil lawsuits
stemming from the dangers
posed by its products.
“Today’s vote makes New
York the first state in the
nation to put the communities
victimized by gun industry
negligence ahead of that
industry’s profits and shareholders,”
said Myrie, representative
for the 20th Senate
District in Central Brooklyn,
who sponsored the legislation
in the Senate.
“In 2005, the federal government
granted near-blanket
protection against civil lawsuits
to gun dealers, manufacturers
and distributors.
As a result, the courthouse
doors are closed to anyone
seeking to probe the reckless,
dangerous and irresponsible
practices of the gun industry’s
worst actors, who we know
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By Bert Wilkinson
Nearly two months of heavier
than usual mid-year rains
have left large parts of Guyana’s
interior and riverain
communities under flood
waters as thousands of areas
have been turned into lakes,
farms destroyed, cattle, livestock
and birds dead in droves
and authorities under pressure
to bring relief to beleaguered
residents.
The persistent rainfall since
the last week of April have so
inundated communities across
all 10 administrative regions of
the country of about 800,000
people that government has
been forced to call an urgent
sitting of parliament this week
to appropriate at least $5 million
to immediately acquire
care packages, replanting material,
hygiene products, potable
water and other basics to distribute
across the country.
Officials say many are still
under up to two feet of water,
nearly two weeks after the
heaviest single day rainfall on
May 27 that netted five inches
of rain in less than 24 hours.
Police have reported no deaths
or serious injuries. On May 8,
the weather service recorded
four inches in less than 24
hours as the country braces for
additional bouts of rains and
high tides this week.
Though less dire, the situ-
Continued on Page 22
Myrie hails passage of gun industry liability bill
UNDER
FLOOD
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Guyana, Suriname inundated
after weeeks of rain
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FORMER NYS
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