Month: November 2024

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Hundreds pay last respects to Guyanese community worker Minerva Beaton

Hundreds of Caribbean and other nationals on Oct. 24 flocked the pews of St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church on Hawthorne Street in Brooklyn to pay their last respects to respected Guyanese-born, Brooklyn community worker Minerva Beaton, who died on Oct. 6.  She was 66. Nationals and relatives paid tributes in speeches, scriptures, prayers, hymns and songs, as well as on steel pan and drums, during the near two-hour-long service that was […]

todayNovember 11, 2024

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100-year-old former President back in the running

Three days after Vice President Kamala Harris lost a historic bid to win occupation of the White House, a 100-year-old former president of the United States scored a coveted 10th nomination and unprecedented Grammy honors in 2025. With rewards slated for excellence in 94 categories on Feb. 2, 2025, kudos to former President Jimmy Carter, a three-time Grammy winner, centenarian, Democrat, and 39th commander-in-chief for already capturing the prize for […]

todayNovember 11, 2024

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Haiti’s presidential council fires prime minister

Worried about a growing state of anarchy in its most populous and needy member state, Caribbean leaders rushed to an emergency meeting in Jamaica in March with the aim of cobbling together an interim administration to stem the political and humanitarian bleeding in Haiti as heavily armed gangs had all but taken control of the capital and related areas. They had succeeded in setting up a nine-person transitional presidential council […]

todayNovember 11, 2024

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