Month: May 2025

Antigua and Barbuda The Antigua and Barbuda government is saying that the cost of the legal defence in the United States court regarding the sale of the mega yacht Alpha Nero is now US$136,000. A statement was issued following the weekly Cabinet meeting, reiterated that the court action had been triggered by operatives of the main opposition party, the United Progressive Party, but the party maintained its innocence in the […]

Consul General to New York, Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, in collaboration with Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, will showcase the beauty of Guyana's multi-cultural heritage at historic Bowling Green in lower Manhattan, with a flag raising ceremony in observance of the nation's 59th anniversary of Independence. The event will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, May 23. The vibrant colors of red, gold, green, black, and […]

A Jamaica-born diva is headed back to Manhattan and Brooklyn. Grace Jones is booked to headline the Blue Note Jazz Festival on May 27 and join Janelle Monae at Prospect Park's Lena Horne Bandshell on June 9. Celebrating her 77th birthday on May 19, the fashion-forward singer/songwriter/actress/model/ acclaimed "amazing" by fashionistas, music insiders, and film buffs, plans to celebrate Brooklyn with her unique, unapologetic performance. Often described as energetic, androgynous, […]

As renowned British journalist Laura Trevelyan on Thursday, May 1 discussed the "reckoning" of the cruel history and current legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Grenadian Adjunct Prof. Martin P. Felix, coordinator of the Caribbean Studies Minor, in the Department of Social Sciences, at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York (SUNY), says that the Grenadian people should be the ultimate determinants of any slavery reparatory […]

"Blair Underwood Presents Sins of Survivors" by Joe McClean c.2025, Amistad                                              $19.99                                     288 pages   Mom never had to worry. She didn't have to tell you again after she reminded you to look out for your siblings. From then on, you had one another's backs; you were a team nobody messed with. And all these years later, you still watch out for them today because family comes first in your […]

Guyana's military Thursday reported three separate attacks by gunmen from across a border river with Venezuela in the past 24 hours in an apparent escalation of tensions ahead of the May 25 elections for lawmakers in an area in Guyana that Venezuela has long claimed as its own. The Guyana  Defense Force (GDF) said in a statement early Thursday that soldiers on river patrols along the sprawling and winding Cuyuni […]

Raehann (pronounced Ray-Ann) Bryce-Davis is a mezzo-soprano opera singer whose family is from Jamaica. She was born in Mexico, while her sisters were born in Canada, and they mostly grew up in Texas with their parents. Bryce-Davis acknowledges her mom as the most significant influence on becoming a professional opera singer. “My mom, Hortensia Bryce, made sure we were in piano lessons, attended concerts, sang in her children’s choir, and […]

The Brooklyn-based Guyana Independence Celebration Committee New York (GICCNY) said on Wednesday, May 14, that it will honor Guyana's 11-year-old murder victim Adrianna Younge at Guyana's annual Independence Parade and Celebration in Brooklyn on June 1. The celebration, which marks Guyana's 59th Anniversary of Independence, will comprise the Independence Parade on Church Avenue, Brooklyn, the flag-raising and award ceremony, and the grand Guyana Independence Unity Concert at 1450 Utica Ave. […]