The Dominican consulate in New York will act as a facilitator between the uninsured and healthcare providers, reports El Diario-La Prensa. It’s good news for some in a community where many don’t have health insurance but for others, it’s just a “political ploy.”
Complaints stemming from recently-arrived white residents to Moore Street in East Williamsburg has meant tension in the community and fines for longtime Latino shopkeepers who play salsa and merengue music at their stores, reports El Diario-La Prensa.
El Diario-La Prensa is calling for the dismissal of a police detective who fatally shot an unarmed national guardsman after pulling him over last October in Queens, in a scathing editorial entitled “Fire Dt. Hamdy from the NYPD.”
The first church to serve the city’s Spanish-speaking Catholics, Our Lady of Esperanza, has not only been a house of worship in Washington Heights for a century, but a second home to its members, reports El Diario-La Prensa.
The Rebel Díaz Arts Collective plans to open the Richie Pérez Radical Library next winter, where people can learn about hip-hop culture, reports El Diario-La Prensa. The group wants to promote reading and collective learning among young people.
The New York Latino community bid an emotional goodbye to Cuban journalist, poet and playwright Dolores Prida, who died on January 20, just hours after attending a 20th anniversary celebration of a Latina women’s group.
For Thanksgiving this year, reports El Diario-La Prensa, many Latino families will gather not just to share the meal but also to share the expenses of the dinner, a means to combat the weak economy.
Many businesses closed their doors before and during Hurricane Sandy, but a few served their communities until the very end, El Diario La Prensa reported.
Language barriers and a lack of education have long hindered immigrant parents’ participation in their children’s education. This could start to change with the opening of the Bronx Parent Center, El Diario La Prensa reported.
Even in a Bronx district that’s 45 percent Latino, an Albanian upstart may give the incumbent Puerto Rican Assemblywoman a run for her money in next month’s primary, reports El Diario La Prensa. Residents of District 80 say they’re impressed with challenger Mark Gjonaj’s door-to-door campaign, while Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera is hardly seen.
The Dominican Republic has re-instituted a law from 1973 that prohibits the importing of used clothes. With Dominicans in New York often sending clothes to family on the island, the ban has triggered concern in the local community, according to a report translated from El Diario/La Prensa.
With two to three bodegas closing every day in New York, the Spanish America Grocery in Tremont is yet another bodega that has fallen victim to high rent, El Diario reported. The store owners relied on a Dominican credit system to keep their business going in the low-income neighborhood.
El Diario La Prensa profiled Scarlett Ortiz, a 19-year-old who overcame four years of alcoholism with help of a Latino chapter of Alcoholic Anonymous. The article is translated from the Spanish below.
As students around the city celebrate their high school graduations or party at their proms, El Diario La Prensa reported on the thousands of students who didn’t make it though the city’s school system.
A language barrier may be partly to blame for dangerous conditions at an Inwood apartment building, El Diario La Prensa reported. Tenants complain about leaking water, cracks in ceilings and windows, and a cut off gas supply, but city officials say the landlord’s very limited English may account for her confusion about city regulations.
