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NEW YORK — Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les-Robin­son has em­pha­sised the crit­i­cal role re­mit­tances play in sup­port­ing Caribbean fam­i­lies and economies, recog­nis­ing the sac­ri­fices of di­as­po­ra com­mu­ni­ties across the Unit­ed States.

Speak­ing at the Caribbean Di­as­po­ra Unit­ed, Inc’s (CDU) Sec­ond An­nu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Uni­ty Break­fast at Rus­so’s on the Bay in Queens, New York, Beck­les-Robin­son not­ed that over 15 mil­lion peo­ple of Caribbean her­itage re­side in the US, in­clud­ing more than four mil­lion in the New York Met­ro­pol­i­tan area.

“The Caribbean re­gion val­ues your re­mit­tances to fam­i­lies and wor­thy caus­es,” she said. “But more im­por­tant­ly, the re­gion knows that re­gard­less of where you re­side, you love your home­land. And that love tran­scends all. We may not say it as of­ten as we should, but we love your love.”