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Homeless Services paid out millions of dollars

Posted by mark on Jan 29, 2010 in Local, News | 79 comments

The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) paid out millions of dollars ($152.7 million in FY08) to non-contracted service providers based on an “honor system” of unwritten agreements, invented rates and duplicate clients lists, according to an audit initiated under former Comptroller William C. Thompson,...

Wyclef gets $250,000 to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser

Posted by mark on Jan 29, 2010 in Local, News | 1 comment

The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of...

Maxine's Party	-Photo Credit: Ajamu Duane Stephenson, Etana, Cocoa Tea, and TJB Memeber Laverne Mattie at the 'Team Jamaica on the Road to Beijing' Reggae Charity Concert. Team Jamaica is off to a Roots rocking start on the road to the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia this weekend, thanks to Reggae legend Cocoa Tea and his musical brethren who rocked Brooklyn College’s Walt Whitman Theater last Sunday for the ‘Team Jamaica on the Road to Beijing’ Reggae Charity Concert. Presented by Team Jamaica Bickle and VP Records, scores of Reggae fans were treated to the drum and bass sounds of the island, while raising much needed capital to fund Jamaica’s track and field athletes at Penn, and on their journey to dominate the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China this August.
-JIS/NY Photo- Deputy Consul General of Jamaica in NY, Lisa B. Smart and Vincent Heath, co-chair of Team Jamaica Bickle- Philadelphia Organizing Committee, discuss the upcoming reggae concert on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 7pm, at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts,Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY during last week’s press briefing/reception at the offices of Ruder Finn Agency, 301 Second Avenue, Manhattan. The concert event dubbed “Team Jamaica Bickle on the Road to Beijing”, which will be staged under the patronage of Jamaica’s newly appointed Ambassador to the USA, His Excellency Anthony Johnson, will benefit Jamaica’s student/athletes attending the April 24-26, 2008 Penn Relays Carnival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the national senior team to the Games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing, China, from August 8-28, this year. In his brief to the media, TJB Founder Irwine Clare, Sr., said that the April 20 event which is being supported by the VP Records Family, will be more than just a concert event.	CRICKET IN QUEENS: R. Singh, batsman for Richmond Hill, runs to score as fielders from the Aviation Flyers wait for the retrieval of the ball, during a high school cricket match in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April, 2, 2008. New York City schools launched a cricket league in April, apparently the first school system in the country to offer the sport. The response has been overwhelming, a reflection of the city's growing number of immigrants from the Caribbean and South Asia, where cricket is the most popular sport.