Month: January 2025

West Indies Women’s Captain Hayley Matthews again led with the bat and ball to give her team a nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh Women in the first One-Day International at Warner Park in St. Kitts. Matthews captured two wickets with her off-spin, cracked an exhilarating, unbeaten century to ensure the Windies victory, and took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Player-of-the-Match Matthews added 163 runs for the opening partnership with […]

Pakistan’s bowlers Sajid Khan and Abrar Ahmed trampled West Indies’ batsmen to give their side a 127-run victory inside three days at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Player-of-the-Match Khan bagged five wickets, while Ahmed grabbed four wickets, which overshadowed a career-best bowling performance by West Indies leg spinner Jomel Warrican. Warrican’s superb 7-32, which saw him end with 10-101, had earlier instigated a Pakistan middle-order collapse that resulted in them losing […]

For many who are not fans of the Jamaican Dancehall genre, superstar performer Vybz Kartel was a detested convicted murderer facing a lengthy sentence in a local jail for a murder committed back in 2011. was a detested convicted murderer facing a lengthy sentence in a local jail for a murder committed back in 2011. However, for the millions of fans in the Caribbean and worldwide, Kartel is a superhero […]

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On Jan. 13, the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History (BPL-CBH) hosted an in-person and virtual conversation with Michelle Adams, who discussed her debut book "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (MacMillan, 2025). Aaron Robertson, author of "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (MacMillan, 2024), moderated the event. An excerpt of the book description […]

Caribbean The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New York (MRNY), are calling on the New York City Public Schools (NY- CPS) Chancellor to take "immediate, decisive steps to better protect Caribbean and other immigrant students against potential United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement actions." They have sent a letter to the NYCPS Chancellor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos, urging her to protect […]

Two senior Caribbean Community diplomats have warned regional governments and nationals to prepare for larger than unusual numbers of deportees in the coming months, given moves by the Donald Trump administration to get rid of thousands of so-called undocumented or illegal immigrants, some of whom will undoubtedly come from the Caribbean. Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua’s Ambassador to the US, and David Commissiong, Barbados’ Ambassador to CARICOM, have suggested that governments […]