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Bedford-Stuyvesant's 50-year-old community space, the Magnolia Tree Earth Center, a New York City landmark, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Brooklyn Borough President.
History repeats itself, as a community fights to protect an environmental treasure.
In instances where there is no relative to hold power of attorney to handle the affairs of an elderly person, Government could step in via an independent trust fund. This is among the proposals in the new 2023-2028 National Policy On Ageing For Barbados which was discussed on Sunday during a town hall meeting at The St Michael School. “We had made specific recommendations and proposals for the adjustment to …
Government is set to significantly boost the financial resources of the National Assistance Board (NAB) to enable the state-run agency to extend its reach in caring for the elderly and other vulnerable Barbadians.Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs Kirk Humphrey disclosed on Monday that in the coming financial year, the NAB will “have the most resources they have ever had”.“We are talking about moving from a situation where the NAB in total was getting something like $13 million to a case where now we are pushing them nearly to $20 million,” he said.Humphrey said that sign...
A pioneering African-American environmentalist in the 1960s left a living legacy that is now in danger of being shut down.