Month: August 2024

West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews and West Indies Men’s white-ball head coach Daren Sammy said they were looking forward to making purposeful contributions to a new health, fitness and well-being advisory board being established by the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) organizers. Matthews and Sammy, the League’s joint chief medical officer, Dr. Akshai Mansingh and the Principal Medical Officer of the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Health, Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards […]

Artists including tap dancer/choreographer Lisa La Touche and jazz saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins will be working with the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) until October, as they are a part of the 2024 cohort of the museum’s Armstrong Now Artist-in-Residence program, announced last month.   This comes as the museum’s Center celebrates one year of being opened in Queens. The Museum has also recently won the IMLS National Medal for Museums, which […]

Rickford Burke, chairman of the Brooklyn-based Guyana Independence Celebration Committee New York, says that his organization will host the official annual celebration of Guyana’s 58th Anniversary of Independence on Sunday, August 18, in Brooklyn. Burke, who is also president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), told Caribbean Life on Tuesday that the celebration comprises the Independence Parade, Flag-Raising and Award Ceremonies, and the grand Guyana Independence Unity […]

Basking in the glory associated with its first Olympic gold medal, St. Lucia’s government has plans to soon declare a national holiday in honor of Julien Alfred, 23, who triumphed in the women’s 100-meter race on Saturday. Alfred defeated a star-studded field by a sizeable margin to put the Eastern Caribbean nation on the world map for reasons other than tourism and Nobel Peace prizes. Seizing the moment as Alfred […]

Given the global publicity in the wake of the recent arrests of several Americans with ammunition in their luggage in the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), one would have assumed that visitors to the Caribbean island would thoroughly search their bags when traveling there. But authorities there have arrested two people in the past week, one with a full box of handgun ammunition as they were […]

The United States on Aug. 2 affirmed tat Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia received the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election as documented by what Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken described as “the democratic opposition’s extensive efforts to ensure a transparent accounting of the votes.” US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that Blinken, who also spoke with Venezuela’s opposition member María Corina Machado, “expressed […]

A newly-formed virtual group called Caribbean Americans United in Support of Kamala Harris for President is strongly pushing for the election of the first Caribbean-American Vice President in November’s Presidential Elections in the United States. The Steering Committee of the group, which was formed on July 22, comprises members who are primarily New York residents.  The seven-member Committee comprises former  City Council Member Una S.T. Clarke; state Sen. Kevin Parker, […]

United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Congresswoman Stacey E. Plaskett has welcomed the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) announcement of US$4.5 million in immediate humanitarian assistance to Caribbean countries impacted by Hurricane Beryl. “Immediately after learning of the impact of Hurricane Beryl on our Caribbean neighbors, I reached out to Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-12), who serves on the Appropriations Committee as the Ranking Democrat for the Subcommittee on State, Foreign […]

Attorney General Letitia James reminded New Yorkers that a new law establishing deed theft as a crime and expanding the Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) ability to prosecute deed theft has taken effect. The legislation, which was co-authored by James and sponsored by State Sen. Zellnor Myrie and Assemblymember Landon C. Dais, establishes deed theft as a crime, amends the statute of limitations to give homeowners and prosecutors more […]