Month: December 2024

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US uncovers major Bahamian drug smuggling ring – several indicted

US authorities have uncovered a major cocaine and weapons smuggling ring operating out of The Bahamas and have nabbed 11 locals including several police officers and a soldier triggering calls for a major overhaul of the police force protecting a country that is the nearest geographically to the US. The arrest of the group in the past week has placed tremendous political pressure on the administration of Prime Minister Phillip […]

todayDecember 5, 2024

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National Book Foundation celebrates 75 years of hosting National Book Awards this year

      On November 20, the National Book Foundation (NBF) hosted the 75th National Book Awards, which celebrates five authors worldwide who write the best books throughout the year, in the following categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.   In addition to announcing the National Book Award Winners, the Ceremony & Benefit Dinner drives funding for the Foundation’s year-round work connecting books with readers of […]

todayDecember 5, 2024

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St. Kitts and Nevis donates artwork to OAS Art Museum of the Americas

The Organization of American States (OAS) says the Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis has donated the artwork “Mosaic – A Woman of Power in an Everyday World” by artist Vaughn Anslyn into the permanent art collection of the OAS Art Museum of the Americas. In a ceremony at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 8, Permanent Representative of St. Kitts and Nevis Jacinth Henry-Martin noted that the […]

todayDecember 5, 2024

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‘This is the Time for Me’: Minna LaFortune

With an anthem of resilience, empowerment, and hope, Brooklyn-based, Jamaican-born reggae artist Minna LaFortune drops her latest single, “This is the Time for Me.”  Inspired by Kamala Harris’s historic journey and dedicated to all who may feel the disappointment of recent setbacks, LaFortune told Caribbean Life over the weekend that “this powerful song encourages women of color and individuals of immigrant heritage to stay on the path of self-empowerment and […]

todayDecember 5, 2024

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