Month: May 2025

Dancehall superstar Konshens returns with an electrifying new single titled "BDAUP" ('Back Dat Azz Up'), released May 16 via Submachine Entertainment/FTS Global Management/ADA Worldwide. "The track is built on the legendary beat made famous by Juvenile's classic hit, with hip hop mogul Birdman personally sending the instrumental to Konshens' team inviting him to infuse it with authentic Dancehall energy," Jamaican entertainment publicist Ronnie Tomlinson told Caribbean Life on Monday. "The […]

While electoral officials were frantically counting votes from general elections in Suriname on Sunday, the head of state in neighboring Guyana announced Monday, Sept. 1, as the date for general elections 2025. President Irfaan Ali, speaking late Sunday during 59th independence anniversary celebrations, unveiled the date and announced plans to dissolve parliament, setting the stage for what is likely to be one of the most consequential elections since independence in […]

Chef Marie Armand, owner of Zoe's Kitchen, never doubted her destiny. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Croix-des-Bouquets until moving to the U.S. at four, Armand says she always knew she would become a chef. "I was always in the kitchen," she recalled. "Even as a baby, I was sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night just to see what my uncle was cooking." The culinary […]

India's great Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket on May 12 after playing 123 matches in his glorious 14-year red-ball career. The 36-year-old Kohli's retirement comes only days after Rohit Sharma announced that he will also be stepping down from Test cricket, taking two senior batters out of selection for India's tour to England beginning on June 20. Kohli made his Test debut in 2011 against the West […]

This week, China hailed its growing relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), noting the dramatic increase in trade in the past decade and its ongoing fight for hearts and minds with the US in the region. In remarks celebrating 28 years of diplomatic relations with The Bahamas, Ambassador Yan Jiarong used the opportunity to reply to recent comments from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had warned Caribbean […]

Guyana's diplomats raised their glasses last Wednesday, May 21, in a celebratory toast to the nation's 59th Anniversary of Independence during a reception imbued with honor and patriotism. Consul General Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, against a backdrop of the country's symbolic national colors at the Jamaica Performance Arts Center (JPAC), hailed the celebration of Independence at a time when Guyana was recognized as a significant and reliable actor in the […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 20 other attorneys general won a court order on Thursday, May 22, stopping the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the Department of Education (ED). On March 13, Attorney General James led the coalition in suing the administration after it announced plans to eliminate 50 % of ED’s workforce. Following an executive order directing the closure of ED on March 20 […]

On May 8, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library (NYPL) hosted its hybrid kickoff of a yearlong celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of its founding. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was born in 1874 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He was the son of Mary Joseph, a freeborn Black midwife from the island of St. Croix, and Carlos Federico Schomburg, a merchant and […]