Month: April 2024

One of the Caribbean’s remarkable and prominent business leaders Patrick Jolly succumbed to his illness and died at his home in Long Island, New York, last Thursday. The community knows of him because Patrick Jolly was affiliated with the well-known Jamaican Tower Isle Frozen Food business on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, with its delicious, mouthwatering golden patties the company became a house-hold name for many Caribbean residents in New York […]

Kimberly Parris, 42, is a jack of all trades. She’s a mother, chef, entrepreneur and innovator. The Rosedale resident has spent the past 20 years of her life on a journey where she started as an educator before going on to establish a successful catering business. Currently, Parris is also creating an app designed for Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color (BIPOC) food businesses and agriculturalists.  Parris’ story began […]

Are you ready for a unique mashup of amazing Caribbean music and dance this May? Flushing Town Hall is hosting another edition of their popular Global Mashup Series, where Haitian dance meets Puerto Rican salsa music on stage this Saturday, May 4.   Brooklyn-based Jalopy Theatre, will take over Flushing Town Hall, bringing the lively Haitian folk dancing troupe La Troupe Zetwal, Latin jazz artist Willie Martinez and the NYC Salsa All-Stars […]

Barbados The Barbados government is looking at the possibility of negotiating payment for reparations with the British owners of the Drax Hall Plantation with reference to the inhumane treatment of enslaved African ancestors for centuries. Drax Hall, a sugar cane plantation, has been described by historian and University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles as a “killing field” for the enslaved. An estimated 30, 000 enslaved people […]

Kabaka Pyramid and the legendary Ghetto Youths International/Bebble Rock Music label on Friday released the deluxe version of Pyramid’s GRAMMY Award-winning album, “The Kalling.” Executive produced by Damian “Jr Gong” Marley, the deluxe edition features “an exciting lineup of five brand new remixes and two dub mixes,” according to Ronnie Tomlinson, the Jamaican-born chief executive officer of the New York-based Destine Media. “Dub mixes, ‘The Kalling (deluxe)’ promises to take […]

For over two years, cities across the country have struggled to respond to the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In New York City, slowing tax revenue growth combined with low office occupancy rates, and the expiration of temporary federal stimulus dollars have put a strain on our city’s budget. At the same time, as we all know only too well, the pandemic exposed cracks in education, health care, and housing […]

Registered Nurse Jean G. Leon says she is currently retired but “remains fully committed as a healthcare change agent.” Trinidadian-born Leon told Caribbean Life that she was the executive director of the sprawling Kings County Hospital Center and senior vice president of the Central Brooklyn Family Health Network. She said she was responsible for the budget of the facilities, for overseeing the entire operations of the facilities and for ensuring that […]