Month: September 2024

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 […]

Sri Lanka got their fourth Test victory on English soil securing an eight-wicket win with the assistance of an unbeaten century by opener Pathum Nissanka in the third and final match of the series against England at The Oval. England won the series 2-1 but missed out on a second clean sweep of their international summer, after they defeated the West Indies 3-0 in July. With the Sri Lankans starting […]

Olympian Jereem Richards has been awarded TT$187,500 by the Ministry of Sport and Community Development. This funding, which is awarded under the Elite Athlete Assistance Programme (EAAP) and is aligned with the National Sport Policy, is designed to help athletes like Richards cover the cost of training, international competition fees, travel and other essential expenses. Like other athletes, the ministry has continuously supported Richards’ athletic development which allowed him to […]

Olympic and World Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will receive the Keys to the City of Kingston, a prestigious honour presented by the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), which was approved during a recent KSAMC Council meeting in Kingston. Regarded as one of Jamaica’s greatest athletes, sprint legend Fraser-Pryce’s 22-year career in track and field includes excellent performances in the 60m, 100m. 200m, and 4x100m events, obtaining multiple gold medals […]

BRIC, a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn, presents this Saturday “Unbossed & Unbowed,” an immersive and interactive one-woman show written and performed by Ingrid Griffith, chronicling the life of Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for the US Presidency. The show, winner of the 2023 Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Production about Social Justice, borrows its title from Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign slogan and […]

The Brooklyn-based Trinidad and Tobago Nurses Association of America, Inc. (TTNAA) on Sunday honored two of its outstanding members and awarded scholarships to two nursing students during its gala 56th Anniversary Luncheon and 32nd Scholarship Grant Award ceremony at Glen Terrace on Avenue N in Brooklyn. The group conferred its honor on treasurer Jocelyn Alleyne, a retired senior associate administrator in the Nursing Department at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and […]

The New Heritage Theatre Group (NHTG), the oldest non-profit Black theater company in New York State, celebrates its 60th anniversary with a series of landmark events through the remainder of 2024 and into the first quarter of 2025, with “Love Warrior” taking center stage this Friday at The Sanctuary, First Corinthian Baptist Church, 1912 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., New York, NY. NHTG said on Monday that “Love Warrior” is […]

On the 23rd anniversary of Sept. 11th, an estimated hundreds of thousands of local residents are still grappling with the effects of unprecedented toxic exposure. This group notably includes first responders as well as the tradesmen and tradeswomen who cleared and rebuilt lower Manhattan. Those impacted face a higher risk for certain types of cancer than the general public, and Congress has the opportunity to help them and others at-risk […]

The Brooklyn-based West Indian-American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer of Caribbean Carnival Week in New York, has announced the winners of this year’s carnival. Sherzel Production emerged as the top band in the large bands category. WIADCA also said that Pan Evolution Steel Orchestra (PESO) took the Panorama title among eight competing bands. Sherzell Production copped the Band of the Year title with its portrayal of “Kaleidoscope: Festival of Colors” […]