NEW YORK – The Caribbean community in Brooklyn, New York, has expressed profound sadness over the passing of Rodrick F. Daley, the prominent Jamaican-born chair of Community Board 17 in Brooklyn.
Daley died on April 13. He was 54.
Community Boards are local representative bodies in the City of New York. Community Board 17 is one of 59 Community Boards created by a City Charter amendment in 1975.
Community Board 17 said that, like all of the community boards within New York City, it “plays a very important advisory role in dealing with land use and zoning matters, the city budget, municipal service delivery, and many other matters relating to the communities’ welfare.”…