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Vol. 31, Issue 48 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2020
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By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American elected
officials on Tuesday paid
tribute to New York City’s first
and only Black Mayor, David
N. Dinkins, who passed away
Monday night at his home on
the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
He was 93.
“It’s hard to adequately
express the impact of the life
and work of New York City’s
first Black Mayor, David
Dinkins,” said Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams, the son of
Grenadian immigrants. “The
city benefited from his leadership,
and so many Black New
Yorkers benefitted from his
pioneering example.
“For me, a young man when
he was elected, he was inspiring,”
Williams added. “I could
not be the fourth citywide
Black elected leader, if he were
not the first. It was a privilege
to have met and spent time
with him, and it is an enduring
honor to work in the building
he did for so long, one that
now bears his name.”
The public advocate noted
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By Bert Wilkinson
A major row erupted in
Trinidad this week over the
deportation of a group of Venezuelan
migrants including
infant children but authorities
say the country is under
enough pressure from continued
low oil prices, the COVID-
19 pandemic, shuttered borders
and now can’t be asked to cope
with dozens of newly arriving
refugees.
The flare up occurred after
the group of more than 20 were
put back on their boats and
escorted out to the border Gulf
of Paria stretch between Trinidad
and the Venezuelan coast.
Several critics including
opposition and rights officials
and activists accused the
Keith Rowley administration of
heartlessly deporting the Venezuelans
in their greatest hour
of need but the prime minister
has countered by saying
that the island’s borders have
been closed since March and
no exceptions can be made for
any group.
With just seven miles of
gulf water separating the two
nations, thousands of Venezuelans
have in the past three
years landed on Trinidadian
beaches. Many have been registered
officially and given status
but authorities think there is
more than enough evidence to
support suspicions that there is
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Caribbean politicians pay tribute to
former Mayor David N. Dinkins
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