Nearly 200 Caribbean teachers, mostly Jamaicans and Guyanese, were given termination letters from the NYC Dept. of Education, because their visas expired. Community leaders met to strategize about the impending exodus either back to their homeland or the unemployment line. more>

Some families are traumatized, experiencing weight loss, sleepless nights, anxiety attacks, and incessant crying. It’s a common experience for families watching their sons head off to war. more>

While President Bush seems adamant that the war is close at hand, some members of the Caribbean clergy have voiced their concern over the imminent war. Individual churches are holding prayer vigils and mass, and sending letters of protest. more>

The Weekly Gleaner was deluged with phone calls from the mainstream media and persons who wanted to verify that the Washington, D.C. snipers were Jamaican nationals. One international photography company was willing to pay “any money” for exclusive pictures from the Gleaner. Meanwhile, concerned Jamaicans were worried that this latest incident would again stir anti-Jamaican sentiments to the level of the Colin Ferguson/Long Island Railroad killings several years ago. more>