Month: September 2024

The smells of Guyanese cuisine, infectious music, and pleasant temperatures on Sept. 1 were the perfect elements to bring the 24th Annual Guyana Folk Festival weekend of festivities to a memorable ending. The spectacular 2024 season included a Summer Workshop Series, an Awards Dinner, and a Kwe Kwe demonstration. It opened with President Ave Marie Brewster-Haynes paying tribute to the late Executive Director of GCA, Claire Ann Goring. A choreography […]

Arrival of US armored vehicles boost to Haiti anti-gang effort residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital which has been terrorized by heavily armed gangs in the past three years, can perhaps regard recent assurances by the head of the Kenyan security force in the country as good news as he pledged that his contingent will not let up until violent gangsters are wiped or driven out of areas. Commander Godfrey Otunge […]

Arrival of US armored vehicles boost to Haiti anti-gang effort residents in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital which has been terrorized by heavily armed gangs in the past three years, can perhaps regard recent assurances by the head of the Kenyan security force in the country as good news as he pledged that his contingent will not let up until violent gangsters are wiped or driven out of areas. Commander Godfrey Otunge […]

Following the successful release of “Shine di Light,” Jamaican-born reggae artist Minna LaFortune has returned with a heartwarming and infectious new track, “Baby Baby I Love You.” With its catchy lyrics, sultry rhythm and irresistible groove, LaFortune told Caribbean Life on Tuesday that “Shine de Light” is set to captivate fans of both reggae and pop music. “Baby Baby I Love You” showcases LaFortune’s smooth vocal delivery as she sings […]

The athlete who became the pride of the Caribbean at the recent Paris Olympics says she can hardly wait for the end of the Diamond League season to head home to St. Lucia and celebrate with her legion of supporters and well wishers. Julien Alfred who easily beat a high-class field including race America favorite Sha Cari Richardson in the women’s marquee event, is currently in Europe wrapping up the […]

Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has joined growing tributes to Caribbean statesman Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal’s passing. Guyanese-born Sir Shridath died on Aug. 30. He was 95. “It is with sadness that I learned of the passing of Sir Shridath Ramphal, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations,” said Trudeau on Monday. Sir Shridath Ramphal, the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, who served from 1975 -1990. Photo courtesy thecommonwealth.org “Born in Guyana, […]

Community members on Saturday, Aug. 24 joined elected and other officials, and families and friends in the co-naming of East 8th Street in the Kensington section of Brooklyn as Tyler Kobe Nichols Way. Nichols, whose parents hail from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was 21, when he was inexplicably fatally killed on Dec. 23, 2020 by what his aunt, Carlene Chambers, a registered nurse, described as reported knife-wielding members of […]

Rich Homie Quan has died from an apparent drug overdose, multiple sources confirmed. The Atlanta rapper was age 34 at[Read More...] The post Rich Homie Quan Dead At 34 From Apparent Overdose, Boosie Badazz Reacts appeared first on Urban Islandz.

A virtual Who’s Who in New York politics were on hand Monday during and after the Pre-Labor Day Breakfast, as the Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer of the Caribbean Carnival Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, facilitated the elected officials for speeches and photo opportunities during the massive spectacle. Yolanda Lezama-Clark, center, display certificate from CIS founder and president Dr. Claire Nelson, second from left, flanked […]