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Vol. 30, Issue 43 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN OCTOBER 25-31, 2019
Dr. Mathieu Eugene hoists the Haitian Flag at Bowling Green as singer Corine Jean looks
on. Offi ce of Councilmember Dr. Mathieu Eugene
By Nelson A. King
Brooklyn Council Member
Dr. Mathieu Eugene, in partnership
with the Haiti History
and Culture, Inc., Haitian Solidarity,
The Haitian American
Council on Unity and Empowerment,
For The Love of Haiti
and the Haitian community
recently hosted The 2019 NYC
Haitian Day Celebration at
Bowling Green.
The festivities commenced
with the Haitian Flag Raising
Ceremony, at which Eugene
was joined by Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams, Assembly
Member Haitian-American,
Mathylde Frontus, and students
from Walt Whitman
Middle School in Brooklyn.
“The event served as an
important moment of reflection
on the current socioeconomic
and political crisis in
Haiti, and an opportunity to
Continued on Page 22
By Bert Wilkinson
In what is being seen as a
major signal that the elections
season is on in Trinidad, the
main opposition United National
Congress (UNC) is moving to
scuttle the sale of the island’s
major oil refinery to a group
led by a powerful labor union
because the party feels that the
body was given a sweetheart
deal by the administration of
Prime Minister, Keith Rowley.
The UNC is not openly saying
so, but it has been implying
that Rowley’s governing
People’s National Movement
(PNM) has favored the Oilfield
Workers Trade Union (OTWU)
because the union is closer to
the PNM than the UNC and a
successful sale of the firm to
the union could win the PNM
votes ahead of general elections
by next fall.
Authorities closed the Petrotrin
Oil refinery in southern
Trinidad last year, contending
that it had been losing billions
of dollars annually, was severely
overstaffed and had racked up
billions in unpaid debts. Officials
also contended that daily
oil production in Trinidad is so
low that oil had to be imported
Continued on Page 22
Eugene hosts 2019 NYC Haitian Day
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