By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com With increasing attention in the Capitol being placed on mental health services, and agencies such as the Department of Children and Families pushing for cultural sensitivity among their workers, lawmakers agreed that understanding specific details of intercultural relations is becoming more important than ever. “We want to make sure that folks [...]
Head Start Wins Award for STEM Curriculum
By Alberto Suris Rumbo News LAWRENCE, MA — The GLCAC’s Head Start program recently won recognition for its innovation and leadership in teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics to preschoolers. In a ceremony attended by Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua, Lawrence Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Riley, parents and GLCAC staff, three prize-winning teachers were honored for using [...]
Latina Taking the Lead on Making Urban Areas Green
By Keith Griffin CTLatinoNews.com During the day, Wildaliz Bermudez is an energy policy research analyst for the City of Hartford. But after work she breaks out her green thumb as co-founder and co-chair of the City of Hartford’s Green Action Team. It is a group of volunteer employees who promote environmental stewardship in the workplace [...]
Historic Swearing In of First Hispanic Justice to Connecticut Supreme Court
By Wayne Jebian CTLatinoNews.com Carmen Espinosa is now the first Hispanic Connecticut Supreme Court Justice. She is one of only eight Latino state supreme court justices in the United States and the first Puerto Rican. She was sworn in by Judge Jose Cabranes, 2nd Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, who is a native of Puerto [...]
An Emotional Plea for Latinos to Join the Struggle For Tougher Gun Control
CTLatinoNews In a powerful interview, Elba Márquez, the grandmother of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, one of the young victims of the Newtown massacre, offered a scathing indictment of the country’s political leaders after Senate leaders announced last week that they would not seek to limit the ban on 157 assault weapons proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein [...]
New Twist in International Case Involves Ex-Mexican President Now At Yale
By Robert Cyr CTLatinoNews.com A new ruling has been issued in an intriguing international human rights case involving a former Mexican president and unfolding in Hartford federal court that has jurisdiction because he is now a professor at Yale University and a resident of Connecticut. Last week, a decision by a Mexican court may possibly [...]
