New York: Mayor DeBlasio honors Fly Jamaica Airways
– By Tangerine Clarke – Caribbean Life News – NY
Mrs Roxanne Reece
Mayor Bill DeBlasio recently honored Fly Jamaica Airways’ executive director and co-owner, Mrs. Roxanne Reece, with a citation for the stellar service the carrier provides to the Diaspora, and for her years of philanthropic work.
Pastor James Richmond, community liaison, on behalf of the politician, presented Mrs. Reece with the prestigious honor during an event hosted by the Brooklyn based, Guyana Unity Movement (GUM), to welcome First Lady of Guyana, Sandra Granger to New York.
Roxanne Reece, who was also presented with a plaque from Mrs. Granger, on behalf of the Guyana Unity Movement (GUY), was congratulated, and thanked by President of GUM Sherif Barker Fraser, for Fly Jamaica Airways’ commitment to the community. Continue reading
Exploitation: A history ignored, a debt unpaid — and the barbarians at the gate By Mohamed Hamaludin
Exploitation: A history ignored, a debt unpaid — and the barbarians at the gate
By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN
22nd June 1948: MV Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks in London
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May joined more than 2,000 others at Westminster Abbey in London on Friday to recognize the contributions to the country by immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean and elsewhere invited in 70 years ago to help rebuild its war-ravaged economy. But it was more an act of contrition over the way the British government treated these people during its own crackdown on illegal immigration, giving birth to the Windrush scandal.
The ship Empire Windrush – yes, empire was flouted in those days – docked in London on June 22, 1948, with 1,027 passengers, 802 of them from the Caribbean, but the “Windrush generation” eventually totaled more than 50,000, coming from several other countries, with a promise that they could live and work in Britain. Continue reading →
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