Month: September 2024

A total of 24 Jamaican soldiers and police officers are headed to Haiti where they will eventually join up with local police and about 400 Kenyan colleagues as part of a multinational force battling heavily armed gangs disrupting life in the CARICOM member nation, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said Tuesday. Announcing the pre-deployment of 20 soldiers and four policemen, PM Holness said Jamaica had been ready for most of the […]

Brooklyn Council Member Mercedes Narcisse says she hosted a very successful Back to School Health Fair and Backpack Giveaway on Saturday at the South Shore High School Field in Canarsie, Brooklyn. “The event saw a fantastic turnout from local families and community members, with the day filled with activities, health services, and support for students returning to school,” Narcisse, the Haitian-born representative for the 46th Council District in Brooklyn, told […]

The Jamaica Consulate General in New York says that the Jamaican community in New York will be able to engage directly with Prime Minister Andrew Holness during a Town Hall meeting at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, at 6 p.m. “The Consulate General of Jamaica has organized this event to bring together members of the Jamaican Diaspora and others interested […]

Caribbean Community governments continue to celebrate and honor athletes who won medals at the recent Paris Summer Olympics, with St. Lucia getting ready to roll out the red carpet for global sprint queen Julien Alfred later this month following similar high-energy events in neighboring Dominica and Grenada recently. Alfred beat a star-studded field to win the 100-meter sprint race and came back hours later to pick up a silver medal […]

Katherine Ragazzino served with the U.S. Marine Corps as a staff non-commissioned officer (NCO) and a Staff Sergeant on two deployments with the 13th MEUSOC (Marine Expeditionary Unit Special Operations Capable). Everything was normal for her in daily life until she suffered a traumatic brain injury during her 2004 tour in Iraq, leading to her being medically retired. Before moving to New York from California in 2012, according to the […]

As SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and Medical Center hosted a Community Healthy Lifestyle Fair on Sunday, a distinguished professor and physician at the university hospital’s Center for Community Health Promotion & Wellness (the Center) says that the hospital, in the heart of the Caribbean community in Brooklyn, has stepped up to address challenges facing the elderly population and caregivers. Dr. Michael Reinhardt – a physician, assistant professor, clinical advisory […]

Shimron Hetmyer and the Guyana Amazon Warriors produced a spectacular batting performance to beat the St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots and remain unbeaten in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) at Warner Park. Hetmyer contributed a boundary-laden 91, as the Warriors posted the second highest ever score in the CPL of 266 for seven in their 20 overs, just one run short of the 267 for two scored by the Trinbago […]

Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, Dr. Kishore Shallow, recently announced that a domestic T20 competition in 2025 is in the works to determine who will represent the region at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. He said talks were already under way with the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) to stage the domestic competition next year. “To add cricket to the agenda in the next Olympics is certainly going to be […]