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AUSTIN, Texas.- La soldado hispana Vanessa Guillén desapareció el 22 de abril de 2020 de la base militar Fort Hood, ubicada en Killeen, Texas, y a dos años de su muerte tanto autoridades estatales como federales han realizado una serie de cambios en la forma en que trabaja el Ejército con casos de hostigamiento sexual.

A new funding project that's a part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill doled out over $10 million to health care institutions — and a Houston initiative is cashing in on a chunk of that funding.

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Prime Minister Dr the Hon. Keith Rowley is calling for greater cooperation between American and Caribbean Banks.

Dr Rowley made the call while speaking at the opening of the Roundtable Discussion on De-Risking and Correspondent Banking held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Bridgetown, Barbados today (Wednesday 20th April, 2022).

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley beleives greater cooperation between American and Caribbean banks will benefit business for both regions.

Dr Rowley made the call while speaking at the opening of the Roundtable Dicussion on De-Risking and Correspondent Banking hekd at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Bridgetown, Barbados.

WASHINGTON — Tucked into the folds of the federal government's latest $1.5 trillion spending bill lies more than $280 million to fund initiatives for Texans. Those projects range from expanding the San Antonio police department's mental health unit and improving flood mitigation in coastal counties to planting a sustainable community garden at a high school and building a Gandhi museum in Houston.

On April 20, Chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters (D-CA), joined Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to co-host a Caribbean Financial Access Roundtable at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Center in Barbados. The full-day roundtable focused on concrete proposals to tackle the challenges that small island states face due to the continued reduction of the availability of trade and financial services for their economies and people.

A delegation of six members of the U.S. Congress arrived to Barbados April 18 and 19 to reinforce the strong U.S.-Barbadian bilateral relationship and explore opportunities to expand access to financial services and banking in the Caribbean. The congressional delegation, led by the Chairwoman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters (D-CA), includes Representatives Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Troy Carter (D-LA), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), and Stacy Plaskett (D-VI).

Sunny Bryant has been busy lately working to advocate for equality and justice for transgender children like herself who have been targeted by Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas lawmakers in anti-trans legislation.

But on Monday the now 9-year old Houston activist got to take a break from the fight for transgender kids' rights to roll colorful eggs on the South Lawn of the White House as part of its famed Easter Egg roll.