In 2010, New Orleans native and Dallas resident Lynette Norris Wilkinson promised to make a difference in the lives of Hurricane Katrina survivors in the Lower 9th Ward community where she grew up. On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Wilkinson kept that promise. On Friday, August 28, 2015, she returned to the Lower 9th Ward to donate items on the wish lists of several community organizations helping residents recover from the devastation of Katrina. “The local organizations are the hands and feet in the community, working to make a difference every day,” says Wilkinson. Her “Go Back – Give Back” Blessings Tour took place August 28, 2015 in New Orleans.

Wilkinson, the author of the award-winning book, “UNTOLD: The New Orleans 9the Ward You Never Knew,” (www.HurricaneKatrinaStories.com) saysGuatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has suspended all flights of deportees from the United States after a large number of migrants who were flown back this week were found to be infected with the novel coronavirus.

Giammattei said on Friday that 12 randomly selected people from the Monday deportation flight had tested positive for coronavirus when examined by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after their arrival. He suggested more on the flight had tested positive as well.

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The flight has been at the centre of a political storm since Guatemalan Health Minister Hugo Monroy this week said up to 75 percent of passengers on a deportation flight in March had been infected with the virus.

"A large part of it was infected," the president said in a televised address,