Month: August 2024

Rickford Burke, president of the Brooklyn-based Guyana Independence Celebration Committee New York, says “excitement is building in New York City” in anticipation of Dancehall superstar Yung Bredda’s big debut in the US on Sunday, August 18. Burke told Caribbean Life on Thursday that Yung Bredda, whose real name is Akhenation Lewis, will appear at Guyana’s annual independence celebration in Brooklyn.  He said Yung Bredda will also be among four grand […]

Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday announced New York State will invest $27.5 million to expand maternal and pediatric health care facilities at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. She said the State’s investment will increase access to high-quality prenatal and mental health care by expanding the hospital’s Women’s Pavilion to more than double its current size.  The governor said this investment will also enable the hospital to build a new, state-of-the-art Pediatric […]

Peter “S.Y.” Pestano, the Guyanese-born CEO of The Programm, a multifaceted recording company, on Thursday announced a groundbreaking joint venture with LLC4/Capitol Records, the flagship label of Capitol Music Group. “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in The Programm’s mission to create a cohesive community between LLC4, The Programm and its partners at Capitol records that is built on the backbone of success,” Pestano told Caribbean Life. He said central […]

Still deeply concerned about the impact of the decision by the US Supreme Court in striking down New York’s concealed carry law in 2022, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has been pushing for gun control and redoubling his office’s efforts to keep communities safe. Two years after that watershed ruling, known as Bruen, Gonzalez on Wednesday spoke with PBS NewsHour about his remaining concerns and his strategies in light of […]

A day ago, it was Tropical Storm Ernesto as it left a trail of destruction across Puerto Rico, the British and the US Virgin Islands but the storm has now strengthened into a category one hurricane as it heads out over warm ocean waters to Bermuda in the mid-Atlantic by Saturday. Ernesto is the third of five named storms for the 2024 season so far and the third to have […]

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) has called on the region to embrace sports development and sports tourism following the outstanding performance of Caribbean athletes at the recent Paris Olympic Games. The Fort Lauderdale-based CHTA said on Wednesday that historic achievements by athletes like St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred and Dominica’s Thea LaFond, who secured their countries’ first-ever Olympic medals; Marileidy Paulino, the first woman from the Dominican Republic to […]

The United States Department of State says that Special Representative for Global Partnerships Dorothy McAuliffe, US Ambassador to Jamaica N. Nick Perry and the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, Caribbean on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) launching a Coalition for Climate Entrepreneurship (CCE) Hub in Kingston, Jamaica. The State Department said the hub will provide programming, training and mentorship, and facilitate access to capital for more than 130 climate […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in supporting what she characterized as “commonsense” state and federal laws that regulate the sale of guns to keep communities safe. James said she and the coalition filed an amicus brief in US v. Steven Perez, arguing that federal laws preventing individuals from transporting or receiving firearms from outside the state in which they reside, […]

The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella policy and advocacy organization that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York, on Tuesday condemned what it claims is Mayor Eric Adams’s statement that “right to shelter increases homeless”. Murad Awawdeh, NYIC’s president and chief executive officer, told Caribbean Life that the mayor makes the attacks “without providing solutions.”  “Today, Mayor Eric Adams and his administration said that […]