Month: April 2009

NEW YORK, NY, Tues. April 7, 2009: Two nationals from the Caribbean were among 13 innocent victims shot down by a crazed gunman in Binghamton, NY, police there say.

The two were Haitian couple, Marc Henry Bernard, 44, and Maria Sonia Bernard, 46. Both were at the American Civic Center to learn English and lived in Endicott, NY. They moved to the Endicott Terrace apartment building only about a year ago.

Maria Sonia reportedly worked at a McDonald’s on East Main Street in Endicott. Her husband, Marc Henry Bernard, 44, had just been hired at the same restaurant after losing his job at a local manufacturing company recently.

NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. April 2, 2009: More than five dozen Caribbean community leaders and the media gathered in Brooklyn, New York, the borough with the most migrants from the Caribbean region, to mark Census Day 2009 on Wednesday April 1 and the message was clear to all across the country – `Stand Up and Be Counted` or face being ignored by the U.S. government, politicians and corporations.

LONDON – President Barack Obama has arrived at Buckingham Palace for a private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II. Several thousand well-wishers crowded the traffic circle in front of the gated palace on Wednesday to cheer and wave as the limousine carrying Obama and first lady Michelle Obama rolled past.

On the eve of a global economic summit, Obama promised world leaders he would listen, not lecture, as they seek a common fix to the financial crisis. “We can only meet this challenge together,” he said Wednesday as the U.S. and Russia spoke on the summit sidelines about nuclear warhead reduction.