Month: April 2025

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced on Thursday that they will offer a $500 bank card to anyone for turning in operable guns and assault rifles at a gun buy-back event on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Gonzalez said the event will take place, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 574 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “Brooklyn made […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga recently announced that the city's minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers has increased to $21.44 per hour before tips following a phase in of the pay rate. He said the $21.44 rate reflects the final phase-in of the minimum pay rate for app-based delivery workers, which was […]

Internationally celebrated soca artist Kees Dieffenthaller, frontman of Kes the Band, has made history once again — this time as the first soca performer to sell out two SummerStage concerts at Central Park within hours of going on sale. “Set for July 5 and July 6, 2025, these back-to-back sold-out shows mark a groundbreaking moment not only for Kees but for the entire Caribbean music scene,” Ronnie Tomlinson, the Jamaican-born […]

Jamaica's cabinet and its lifeline tourism sector are celebrating a pledge from American Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his visit to the island last week to review the contents of periodic travel advisories because negative or inaccurate ones do indeed hurt tourism destinations like Jamaica. For decades, Jamaica and other Caribbean Community nations have been worrying about seemingly inaccurate or harsh travel advisories and how devastating they could be […]

After returning recently from several performances and TV appearances in the Gambia, West Africa, where he was given a hero's welcome, Jamaican-born, New Jersey-based dancehall DJ Ras Emmanuel has dropped an explosive new single, "Jah My Provider." On Tuesday, the award-winning Emmanuel told Caribbean Life that the new single is a collaboration with Kingston, Jamaica-based DJ Little Robert. The song speaks to "a steadfast reliance on Jah's support and mercy […]

A Far Rockaway-based pastor has received one of the nation’s highest civilian honors directly from the White House. Reverend Marie Berbick, a Jamaican-born pastor, motivational speaker, and life coach, was awarded the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award in January by the administration of then-President Joe Biden. The award, established by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, is the highest recognition a U.S. president can bestow on a civilian for […]

On Wednesday, Jamaican-American New York City Mayoral Candidate, the Rev. Michael Blake, condemned a federal judge's dismissal of corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho dismissed "with prejudice" the sweeping public corruption charges against Adams, ruling that "There may or may not be good reasons to drop this prosecution. But the reasons articulated by DOJ (President Donal J. Trump's Department of […]

Caribbean governments reacted cautiously Thursday to the new system of tariffs imposed on countries worldwide by the Trump administration in the US, with most saying they will either wait and see or are willing to engage American authorities in the coming weeks. For most countries in the region, the tariff rate for exports hovered around 10 %, but Guyana, which exports crude oil, rums, gold, timber, fish, shrimp, and agricultural […]