Month: September 2024

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Where does your food come from? (Hint: It’s Not Just From the Grocery Store…)

Books on Farms, Food, and Farming History by various authors c.2024, Various publishers                              $27.00 – $30.00                       Various page counts   Last spring, all you saw was rows and rows of dirt, with a promise of more to come. Then there were soft rows of green, followed by real plants, then crops of bales or food or cobs. That acreage you know or imagine is dear to your heart, so why […]

todaySeptember 28, 2024 2

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Miss Grenada USA reflects on one-year-reign

Mickalia Forrester-Ewen, a young, fledging actress born in Brooklyn to a Grenadian mother, was crowned Miss Grenada USA 2023 in September of that year. She says winning the crown was “surprising and exhilarating,” she had no idea what would follow. “But this achievement propelled me to become more deeply involved in my community,” she said, reflecting on her one-year reign in an exclusive Caribbean Life interview over the weekend. “It […]

todaySeptember 28, 2024 4

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St. Lucia honors Olympic champion Julien Alfred

Olympic 100-meter women’s champion Julien Alfred on Tuesday stepped off an aircraft bringing her home to St. Lucia for the first time in nearly a decade as the island starts almost a week of celebrations for the 23-year-old who whipped a star-studded field at the recent Paris Olympics to win the gold medal and keep that title in the Caribbean. She also won a silver in the 200 meters. Dressed […]

todaySeptember 27, 2024 2

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Mixed reaction in Caribbean community to Adams’s indictment on bribery, campaign finance offenses

The Caribbean community in New York has expressed mixed reaction to Thursday’s indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams on federal bribery and campaign finance offences. Damian Williams, the Jamaican-American United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James E. Dennehy, the assistant director in charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Jocelyn E. Strauber, the commissioner of the […]

todaySeptember 27, 2024 2

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