Month: July 2025

West Indies Captain Hayley Matthews secured yet another award in her already successful and dazzling career when she won the ICC's Women's Player of the Month award for June. This is the fourth time the 27-year-old Matthews has copped the award, ahead of her team-mate Afy Fletcher and South African opening batter Tazmin Brits. Matthews was awarded based on her impressive performance in the recently concluded ODI and T20I series […]

Bahamas The government of The Bahamas says a new study has found that one in five Bahamian students between the ages of 13 and 18 has attempted suicide. Prime Minister Phillip Davis described the 2025 Global School Health Survey as "staggering and heartbreaking. "There is no single cause, but we know the pressures are real: the expectations, the silence, the bullying, the economic strain at home, and the ever-growing influence […]

When Jocelyn Rivera launched The Pressplay Agency in 2017, it wasn’t just a passion project — it was a movement. Today, she is the founder and CEO of not one, but three ventures: Pressplay Agency, The Female Manager Co., and Staff Stars, a staffing company she built from the ground up. Rivera, who proudly represents her Trinidadian and Dominican heritage, says her mission has always been clear: to bridge gaps, […]

“Joy Goddess: A’Leila Walker and the Harlem Renaissance” by A’Lelia Bundles c.2025, Scribner                                                  $29.99                                             364 pages   Mama said. Mama said to be nice to others. Stand up for yourself, she said. You can do whatever you put your mind to. Stay out of trouble. Take care of yourself and those you love. Mama said many things that shaped your life, and in the new book “Joy Goddess” by […]

Ask any young person, senior citizen, or working-class New Yorker about the biggest issues facing our city and you’ll hear the same response: affordable housing. When our administration came into office, we were clear that our city could not afford to keep kicking the can down the road on housing; it was not enough to tinker around the edges of our housing crisis, and we could not pass the buck […]

On July 11, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA), in partnership with the International Teaching Artists Collective (ITAC), hosted the virtual event, "Art & Health Panel: Exploring the Power of the Arts in Health - A Global Perspective," as a part of the Summer Forum from July 9-12, which was included in the 2025 Summer for the City Series. Madeleine McGirk Rutherford, the current managing director of ITAC, […]

Thousands of disenchanted Americans stormed state Capitol and federal buildings to protest recent budget cuts and reaffirm messaging from Congressman John Lewis, who was regarded as the country's "moral compass." Brandishing signs and placards reading "Good Trouble Lives On," demonstrators echoed organizers' attempts to parody the words of the Alabama native. Punctuating with a reminder that "the most brazen rollback of Civil Rights in generations" should not be tolerated, more than 1000 gatherings were recorded […]

In observing Black Women’s Equal Pay Day on Thursday, July 10, Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams lamented what they regarded as “structural inequities” that Black women continue to face in the US. “Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a sobering reminder of the Black women still earn 66 cents for every dollar paid to white men, forcing them to work nearly eight extra […]

For the second time in almost eight months, two different governments have placed Trinidad under a state of emergency to beat back what authorities say is a troubling spike in gruesome killings and an increase in gangland activities, including plots to assassinate top officials. President Christine Kangaloo signed the state of emergency declaration early Friday, giving police and the military special and additional powers to detain known gangsters and criminals. […]