Month: September 2025

Edward Sisters Realty Association (ESRA), now known as ESRA Realty LLC, was started by sisters Lucille, Millicent, and Sarah Edwards. The sisters came to the U.S.A. from the Caribbean country of Guyana in South America for better life opportunities and settled in Harlem, NY.  They later established the real estate business at 740 St. Nicholas Ave., 2nd Floor, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Ramona Grey-Harris, the daughter […]

Trinidad-native Donna Bridgeman is the epitome of grace and elegance. When she stepped onto the red carpet as Queen Nefertiti and into the Exclusive Marine Park Golf Course Ball Room in Brooklyn last Saturday, Sept. 20, she was met with three hundred guests who showed up and showed out in dazzling costumes and masks to celebrate her annual All-Inclusive Royalty Masquerade Ball at the Met. Billed as one of the […]

An embarrassing situation is playing itself out in Trinidad and Tobago. Both the government and the main opposition are acknowledging that the republic's lower-ranking soldiers are poorly fed, wear tattered uniforms and bulletproof vests, and sleep on mattresses so thin that they cause aching backs. The issue has come to the fore after Opposition Leader Penny Beckles complained to local media and after Minister of Defense Wayne Sturge went on […]

The Vincent and Patricia Foundation, in partnership with the Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus officially launched the Vincent and Patricia (VP) Entertainment Cultural Enterprise Management (ECEM) scholarship at the Mona Campus on Sept. 9, 2025. This award will provide tuition assistance and academic support to two university students entering the BA degree program in Entertainment Cultural Enterprise […]

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney met on Tuesday, Sept. 23, with President of the Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti, Laurent Saint-Cyr, and Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley. The Government of Canada said Carney met with both leaders on the margins of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly Debate in New York. “Prime Minister Carney and President Saint-Cyr discussed the ongoing crisis in Haiti and Canada’s support […]

More than a decade after his death, Jamaican-born hip hop legend Dwight Myers, also known as Heavy D, was posthumously honored by the Irie Jam Foundation in New York with the Purpose Talk Legacy Honor Award. The event took place recently at the Resorts World Casino in Queens. Heavy D's parents, Eulahlee and Clifford Myers, accepted the award on his behalf. Syntyche "Syn" Clarke, co-chair of the Irie Jam Foundation, […]

Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and recording artist Minna LaFortune has officially submitted her latest album, Dance with Me, Vol. II, for consideration in the Best Reggae Album Category at the 68th GRAMMY® Awards set to take place in Los Angeles, CA on Feb. 1, 2026. LaFortune told Caribbean Life on Friday, Sept. 12, that the album, released on Jun. 7, 2025, is devoted to social consciousness and celebrating life. Blending […]