Plenty of Soup Joumou will be consumed on Jan. 1, 2025, when Haitians gather in Brooklyn to commemorate the 221st anniversary of independence. Not only will the first day of the new year mark a new beginning for nationals, but the date signals a reason for a festive event marking the celebration of a historic triumph. Slated to begin at 3 p.m. at 3116 Clarendon Road, a feast and festival […]
West Indies fast bowler Shamar Joseph has been one of the individuals nominated for the ICC’s prestigious Men’s Emerging Cricket of the Year award. Joseph, Gus Atkinson of England, Kamindu Mendis of Sri Lanka, and Pakistan’s Saim Ayub were announced as the first shortlist for its 2024 awards. The 25-year-old Joseph took 29 wickets in eight Tests and hit the spotlight in January when he took seven wickets in the […]
T&T Football Association (TTFA) Technical Director Anton Corneal is one of a select group of technical leaders worldwide to graduate from the first edition of FIFA’s Technical Leadership Diploma. According to a release from TTFA, Corneal attended the final block of an 18-month-long course, which concluded with a series of assessment presentations and a graduation ceremony at the FIFA museum in Zurich from Dec. 5-6. The program commenced in May […]
The hospitality and tourism industry are the lifeblood of New York City’s economy. When we came into office three years ago, our city was emerging from the depths of the pandemic. Streets were empty and businesses were struggling to survive — and our tourism industry was hit hard. But our administration went to work to build a safer, more affordable city for working-class New Yorkers and their families. We worked to revitalize […]
President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Dr. Kishore Shallow, has set the record straight about undertaking governance reform of regional cricket. Recently, the directors from the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) decided not to attend a board meeting where the regional cricket body was due to continue discussing and implementing recommendations from the Wehby Report on the governance of West Indies cricket. Gregory Nichols, the BCA […]
Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh dismantled the West Indies Women's batting, carrying India Women to a comfortable five-wicket victory and a sweep of the three-match One-Day International series at India's Kotambi International Cricket Stadium. Player-of-the-Match Sharma collected six wickets, her second five-wicket haul in ODIs, and Singh, who was named Player-of-the-Series, bagged the other four wickets as the Windies were dismissed for an insignificant 162 in 38.5 overs. Chinelle Henry […]
Bahamas The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB) says provisional data suggest that in November, the domestic economy experienced growth but at a tempered pace compared to the previous year. "In particular, economic indicators continued to trend closer to their expected medium-term trajectory," the CBB said in the Monthly Economic and Financial Developments (MEFD) November 2024 report. It said that tourism sector activity continued to expand, reflecting robust gains in […]
Authorities in Suriname have returned the body of former military strongman and ex-president Desi Bouterse to close relatives and to his National Democratic Party (NDP) after learning over the weekend that he had died of liver failure linked to excessive drinking while in hiding from a 20-year prison sentence for mass murder. The autopsy performed on Bouterse, 79, showed that “that the probable date of death was on Monday or […]
On Dec. 12, the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History (BPL-CBH) hosted a hybrid conversation with Dr. Zinga Fraser about her newly edited book, "Shirley Chisholm: In Her Own Words" (University of California Press, 2024). The book description states: "This long-overdue treatment of her work establishes Chisholm as an unparalleled public intellectual and Black feminist both in her time and now. The book not only contextualizes the Civil Rights […]
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