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Morton
 CBA'S BARRISTER'S
 BALL
Frederick Morton, general
manager for MTV's
Caribbean Cable Channel
TEMPO, is the scheduled
keynote speaker at the 2006
Barrister's Ball to be staged
on June 10 by the Caribbean
Bar Association's Central
Florida Chapter. The black tie
event will kick off the CBA-
CF's Caribbean American
Heritage Month celebrations.
 Morton was born and
raised in St. Croix, United
States Virgin Islands, to
Nevisian parents. Before join-
ing TEMPO, he was senior
vice president and deputy gen-
eral counsel of business and
legal affairs at MTV
Networks. Prior to joining
MTV, he practiced law at the
firm of Simpson & Thatcher.
Before that, the graduate of
Rutgers University School of
Lawhe was a corporate coun-
sel at Johnson and Johnson.
 For more information
about the CBA and the ball,
visit www.caribbeanbar.org

 JAMAICA YOUTH
 PAGEANT
 The annual Miss Jamaica
Florida 2006 Pageant will be
held on June 25 in South
Florida.
 The pageant, presented
by the Partners for Youth
Foundation in association with
ABI Startime, allows contest-
ants who are either Jamaican-
born or of Jamaican parentage
to vie for titles in four age cat-
egories: five to eight; nine to
12; 13-16 and 17-21.
 This year's event is sched-
uled to be held on at the
Coral Springs Center for the
Arts.
 For more information,
call June Minto at 954-739-


 STORYTELLING
 The Miami-Dade Public
Library System will present its
5th Annual International Art
of Storytelling Family Festival
Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
May 20 at the Main Library,
Miami-Dade Cultural Plaza,
101 W. Flagler St.
 The festival, presented in
collaboration with the Rio de
Janeiro Public Library, will
feature live music, food,
Brazilian martial arts, games
and crafts. Children will be
treated to a special appear-
ance by PBS characters
Arthur & DW, Clifford, Maya
& Miguel, and they will also
have the chance to win free
books with stamps collected
in their festival passport.
 The event is free and
open to the public. Miami-
Dade Transit is offering free
bus and Metrorail passes
(while supplies last).
 For more information,
call 305-375-BOOK (2665), or
visit www.mdpls.org

 PASSPORTS
 The National Passport
Information Center (NPIC),
the United States Department
of State's single, centralized
public contact center for U.S.
passport information, is offer-
ing a toll free service and has
expanded its service availabili-
ty/options.
 Persons with questions or
need status checks on pending
passport applications can call
1-877-487-2778. Customer
service representatives are
available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday through Friday,
excluding Federal holidays.
Automated information is
available 24 hours a day, seven
days a week.
 For e-mail access, visit:
npic@state.gov Website of
passport and other interna-
tional travel information is
available at travel.state.gov

 'GREEN CARD' FILING
 The United States
Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) has
announced that aliens must
mail applications to renew or
replace permanent resident
cards, commonly known as
"Green Cards", directly to the
Los Angeles Lockbox.


 The Lockbox is a process-
ing facility used by USCIS to
accelerate the collection of
applications and petitions.
The announced change allows
the agency to improve the
processing of Form 1-90
(Application to Replace
Permanent Resident Card) by
electronically capturing data
and images and by performing
fee receipting and depositing
from one central location,
rather than at the local district
office, service center, or appli-
cation support center (ASC).
 Aliens filing a Form 1-90,
regardless of their state of res-
idence, must mail those appli-
cations with an application fee
of $185 and a biometrics fee
of $70 to one of the following
addresses:
 For U.S. Postal Service
(USPS) deliveries:
 U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, P.O.
Box 54870 Los Angeles, CA
90054-0870;
 Or for non-USPS deliver-
ies (e.g. private couriers):
 U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services,
Attention: 1-90, 16420 Valley
View Ave., La Mirada, CA
90638
 Applicants should not
include initial evidence and
supporting documentation
when submitting the Form I-
90 to the Los Angeles
Lockbox.
 Applicants will receive a
notice for a biometrics pro-
cessing appointment at an
ASC and will submit their ini-
tial evidence during that


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for independent gains, but for
collective gains they shudder.

C.T.: In terms of the vulnerabil-
ity of the Caribbean (undocu-
mented) population, you men-
tioned the 'bogeyman'...who
offers them sweet deals and
don't deliver, that will show up
more now?

E.C.: And is going to show up
itself more. I am optimistic that
some form of immigration
reform will come. I don't know
when, because it creates a new
industry for fraud. When you
start to put up cut off points
(for an undocumented alien to
qualify for amnesty) and a man
misses the cut off point by two
days, do you really think he's
going to say 'I missed the cut
off point by two days I'm
gonna go back home?' Hell no,
he's going to make sure he
qualifies himself one way or
another. That's why we say any
immigration reform that is to
be passed has to be wide
enough to the largest possible
amount of persons are
involved. So those who are left
out is a more manageable
group to be controlled.

C.T.: Do you think Washington
hears the Caribbean?

E.C.: No, Washington hears the


C.T.: And that's whose fault?

E.C.: I think the answer is self
explanatory Recently, case in
point, CARICOM met with
(U.S. Secretary of State)
Condoleezza Rice and the sub-
ject matter they were discussing
was deportation. Nobody is
gonna listen to them when you
start with deportation. You speak
on immigration, its implication,
how we assist the United States,
how the United States need to
reciprocate. You look at it in a
general sense. Once you pigeon-
hole yourself with deportation,
the argument locks. No one in
the (U.S.) Executive, no one in
Congressional is going to go back
to their constituents saying we
are going to relax situations so
that criminals to remain here.
Hell no.

C.T.: So Caribbean people are
not carrying their own weight
on immigration matters?

E.C.: We are not carrying our
own weight, no. We need to
take a page from Vincente Fox,
(president) from Mexico.
Vincente Fox, in every oppor-
tunity that he gets to address
the United States government
or services, he mentions his
Mexican people.


 CARIBBEAN COLLAGE
 May 2006 Film Series
 In collaboration with The Miami International Film Festival

thing More (Nadamds) 7pm FREE May18 FILM lam Cuba.
D8 SW Eighth St., Little Havana The Siberian Mammoth 7pm FREE
los Cremata Malberti is a charming romantic Historical Museum, 101 W Flagler St Downtown Miami
postal worker who intercepts the mail of Vicenre Ferraz examines the making of Mikhail Kalotosov's
solicited replies, with hilarious consequences. 1964 film lam Cuba (Yo soy Cuba). This documentary provides
Jury Prize, 2003 Miami International Film insights into the production of the movie by Cuban and Soviet
Film, Havana Film FestivaL 2002. collaborators, the ideology of the Cold War and the recent history
&. of Cuba. 2004. BraziL Subtitles.

Ian by the Shore May 25 FILM H-2 Worker 7pm FREE
s uais) 7pm FREE Historical Museum, 101 W Fiagler St Downtown Miami
01 W Flagler St, Downtown Miami Set near Lake Okeechobee, this documentary by Stephanie
1960s, during the dictatorship of "Papa Doc" Black focuses on the more than 10,000 men from Jamaica and
symbolic tale of Haiti's hopes and desires fldlows other Caribbean islands who, until recendy, performed the
niglmzares of a man who put an end to her brutal task of cutting sugar cane by hand-a job so dangerous
y Raoul Peck, this film was die first Caribbean and low-paying that Americans refuse to do it. 1990
lm Festival and was nominated for the Golden Jamaica/U.S.


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