Month: September 2024

Hours before former President Donald Trump was set to take the stage at a campaign rally in Uniondale on Long Island on Wednesday, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the nation’s largest healthcare union, held rallies at Brooklyn’s Interfaith Medical Center in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park. The rallies condemned Trump’s recent racist attacks and hateful rhetoric against Haitians. During a Sept. 10 presidential debate between Trump and […]

Following rave reviews for her Christmas album “Caribbean Christmas,”Jamaican reggae artiste Minna LaFortune has officially submitted her album and the single “Christmas is the Reason” for consideration at the 67th GRAMMY Awards. Brooklyn resident LaFortune told Caribbean Life that the album has been entered in the Best Reggae Album category, while the single is vying for Best Global Music Performance. “’Caribbean Christmas’ is a delightful journey into the heart of […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday celebrated what he described as another year of making New York City “safer, cleaner and more affordable for hardworking New Yorkers.” Adams said the celebration is in light of the latest Mayor’s Management Report (MMR) for Fiscal Year 2024 that assesses city agency performance for all of Fiscal Year 2023, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. The report shows significant […]

Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) on Friday strongly condemned the spread of false right-wing rhetoric, including by former US President Donald J. Trump and his Vice President running mate JD Vance, targeting Haitian migrants, and further escalating tensions and spreading misinformation. The threats come amid bomb threats that have disrupted Springfield, Ohio schools. On Friday, two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school was closed in Springfield, Ohio, […]

Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) on Friday strongly condemned the spread of false right-wing rhetoric, including by former US President Donald J. Trump and his Vice President running mate JD Vance, targeting Haitian migrants, and further escalating tensions and spreading misinformation. The threats come amid bomb threats that have disrupted Springfield, Ohio schools. On Friday, two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school was closed in Springfield, Ohio, […]

The CPL highlights began when the two-time Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) winners Barbados Royals (six points) jumped to the second spot in the 2024 season on Sept. 11 when they got a 10-run win over Antigua and Barbuda Falcons via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Method at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. The Falcons scored 176 for five, with opening batsman Justin Greaves top-scoring with 61 not out off 52 […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas on Tuesday announced the return of 263 apartments to rent stabilization and reduction of rent for an additional 43 apartments throughout New York City. James said the apartments, located in 21 buildings in Central Brooklyn, Upper Manhattan and Queens, were either illegally deregulated or were subjected to illegal rent increases by the […]

The White House has named four Caribbean counties as major drug points for international cocaine trafficking but Guyana and neighboring Suriname, which have had their own problems with the illicit trade in the past escaped the rogues list unscathed. The Bahamas, Jamaica, Belize and Haiti are the four which made the list issued by Washington on Monday with officials there saying that these are significant sources of precursor chemicals used […]