Month: January 2025

CARICOM Two CARICOM states which includes Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago have declared state of emergencies (SoE) eight days apart due to increasing murders and gun and gang violence in both countries. After a series of violent gun attacks in Haiti by gangs the government had to implement a SoE which took effect on Dec. 22, 2024, and will end on Jan. 21. Eight days after Haiti declared its SoE, […]

Music has always been integral to Brooklyn Academy's annual commemmoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Regularly spotlighting choruses from Harlem and the borough, choirs provide the gospel for a lively program which integrates civic and cultural tributes to America's best-known civil and human rights advocate. This holiday’s presentation adds Ailey 2 Dance to its diverse repertoire marking the 39th anniversary of its national attraction. It's been 56 years since […]

As leaders of his National Democratic Party (NDP) had bragged, Desi Delano Bouterse needed no formal send-off from the state as he was cremated on Saturday. Thousands of Surinamese either joined the funeral procession or lined the route from his city home to NDP headquarters, where he was eulogized and remembered as a fierce nationalist who had changed the country's politics, albeit sometimes through extra-parliamentary means. Bouterse, who died hours […]

Christians and Christmas lovers at Fenimore Street United Methodist Church (FSUMC) braved the frigid weather on Christmas Eve Night in singing popular Christmas Carols during an annual ritual to the community on the steps of the church at the corner of Rogers Avenue and Fenimore Street in Brooklyn. With severe wind chill and temperatures in the 20s, die-hard members bungled up, singing lustily various carols for almost an hour. They […]

State prosecutors in Trinidad are not only demanding stepped-up security for them and other staff but are also staying away from courts in Trinidad this week following the brutal New Year's Eve assassination of a special prosecutor hours after authorities had imposed a state of emergency measures to help curb an upsurge in violent crime. Attorney Randal Hector was gunned down just after leaving a late-night mass at a church […]

The indelible life of Walter Arlington Greene, an iconic son of Guyana soil, a life well lived, was celebrated after a moving going home service on Dec. 12, with family, friends, and colleagues in attendance at Unity Funeral Chapel in New York City. Greene, a well-known fashion aficionado who died at 74 on Dec. 2, was a model and stylist, Mr. Black New York 1978-79. He was honored with hymns […]