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Vol. 30, Issue 15 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN April 12–18, 2019
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International
Beer Garden
Music, Dance,
Match made in Heaven
Stanley “Luxie” Morris and Dr. Roxie Irish for the fi rst time as husband and wife. See
story on Page 30. Photo by Nelson A. King
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MAY 18 & 19, 2019
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By Nelson A. King
New York City Council
on Tuesday approved legislation
from Public Advocate
Jumaane D. Williams, which
bans pre-employment testing
for marijuana usage in the
vast majority of cases.
The legislation was coprime
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sponsored by Majority
Leader Laurie A. Cumbo and
Council Member Carlina Rivera,
and passed by an overwhelming
majority at Tuesday’s
Stated Meeting of the
full Council, said Williams,
the former representative for
the 45th Council District in
Brooklyn.
Williams said the bill, Intro
1445-A, prohibits employers
in New York City from requiring
a prospective employee
to submit to testing for the
presence of any tetrahydrocannabinols
(THC), the active
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By Bert Wilkinson
Violent crimes linked to gangs
armed with high powered weapons
smuggled from South America
and the United States continue
to trouble authorities in
Trinidad and Jamaica with the
two accounting for nearly 500
murders with a mere 14 weeks
completed for this year so far.
The situation is of such concern
in Trinidad that authorities
there are moving to take
the highly unusual steps in the
region of acquiring weapons
with carry permits for the country’s
prison officers because exconvicts
and their friends are
gunning them down in record
numbers.
No other country in the Caribbean
Community grouping of
15 nations can boast of having
on record 28 prison guards being
killed by convicts or gang members
in the past three decades like
Trinidad and no other government
is moving to arm as many
officers like those in Trinidad.
Of the 28, 16 have been gunned
down in the past decade.
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Ban on marijuana pre-employment testing
BRUTAL
CRIME
SPREE
Stab vests, guns for Trinadad
and Tobago prison guards
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