A vigil in honor of the fourth anniversary of the Ecuadorian immigrant’s death in Patchogue marked the start of a week dedicated to “Understanding, Accepting, and Respecting Cultural Differences” in Suffolk, Noticia reported.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has signed an order ensuring that interpretation services are available at all county agencies and that essential public documents are translated into six language, Long Island al Dia reported.
The balance of power in the State Senate could have tipped in favor of Democrats had their leadership in Suffolk County generously funded the campaign of Rick Montano for the State Senate, La Tribuna Hispana reported. Montano lost by a small margin.
On Long Island, a place with a growing Latino population that is known for its racial strife, the area’s first Latino auxiliary bishop has been designated, La Tribuna Hispana reported.
Marcelo Lucero’s attackers have been convicted, but thanks to a new documentary, his murder case is again in the limelight, three and a half years after a teenager stabbed the immigrant from Ecuador in Suffolk County for being Latino, Long Island Wins reported.
New York City’s Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 10 will focus on higher education and getting out the vote in the Boricua community. But while organizers of New York City’s Puerto Rican Day celebrations have honed their messages, organizers of Long Island’s parade have been scrambling just to hold the event.
Suffolk County’s growing Latino population made itself heard in the rise in youth voter turnout for the election of a new county executive.
Focusing on the new administration elected on Tuesday to lead Suffolk County, the Long Island Immigrant Alliance held a rally Wedmesdau outside the Suffolk Legislature to call for making Suffolk a “Hate Free Zone.”
Nearly five hundred people attended the first-ever bilingual debate between candidates for Suffolk County executive.
Suffolk County’s Hispanic population turns out in record numbers at the Central American Independence Parade.
Despite touting new translation tools and cursory Spanish-language trainings, Suffolk County police consistently deny basic services to residents with limited English proficiency, according to a coalition of community members and advocates that spoke at a press conference in Bay Shore on September 21.
Newsday’s Joye Brown reported yesterday on what Latino leaders found when they went inside the Third Precinct in Bay Shore last week. The group had just finished a press conference calling for the Suffolk County Police Department to be more accessible to immigrants following the release of a memo fromRead More
