Month: September 2025

Queens Democratic Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, the ranking member of the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, is demanding answers from the Trump administration for the legal justification for the US Armed Forces’ strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean Sea. “I am deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s shifting narratives, contradictory facts, and utter failure to provide a legal justification for this strike,” Meeks, who represents […]

Democratic Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez, ranking member of the US House of Representatives’ Veterans’ Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, says she has led a new investigation into the Trump administration’s arrest, detention, and deportation of non-citizen service members, veterans and military families. Ramirez, the daughter of working-class Guatemalan immigrants, who represents Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, said on Sept. 4 that she was joined in the probe by Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren […]

On the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Caribbean-American legislators in New York paid tributes to the victims of the attack. “Today, we pause to remember the nearly 3,000 innocent lives lost on September 11, 2001, and reaffirm our promise to never forget,” New York State Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, who chairs the Brooklyn Democratic Party, told Caribbean […]

Atelier Artist, a new affordable and inclusive artist and professional creative co-working studio in Central Brooklyn, debuts “Lakay” on Sunday, Sept. 14, showcasing a dozen artists from its residency program. "We established Brooklyn's first BIPOC-owned and-operated co-working artist studio with a focus on empowering our community as the first and foremost priority, and the artists featured in our inaugural exhibit reflect that,” Co-founder Jonathan Pierre Lafleur told Caribbean Life on […]

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, that up to $80 million in capital funding is now available to nonprofit arts and cultural organizations through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSA) Capital Projects Fund. Hochul said the fund has three grant categories: Small and Midsized Capital Improvement Grants, Large Capital Improvement Grants and Capital Design Grants for Arts and Culture. She said the $80 million funding […]

Celia Bramble, chairperson of the Scholarship Committee of the Brooklyn-based Council of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Organizations, USA, Inc. (COSAGO), the umbrella Vincentian group in the US, says that the organization has established a Scholarship Fund in honor of two of its “esteemed” late, founding members, Dr. Errol G. King and Dollis Forbes. Bramble, a retired Registered Nurse and colonel in the US Army Reserve, told Caribbean Life on […]

City Council Member Rita Joseph and school administrators were present on Thursday, Sept. 4, for the unveiling of an AIMS school at the annex to P.S. 6 on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. The AIMS school is the first of its kind in Central Brooklyn. The AIMS program (Acquisition, Integration, Meaningful Communication, and Social Skills) is a specialized early childhood initiative within New York City Public Schools designed for autistic students […]

Jamaican sprinting legend Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce has revealed that this month's World Championships in Tokyo will be her last hurrah. She intends to retire from the track after having redefined what is possible for women in sports. The 38-year-old, known as one of the greatest sprinters of all time, will compete in the women's 100 metres at the Championships, which will run from Sept. 13 to 21. Fraser-Pryce, a three-time […]

Beyond The Call 24 7 Inc., a New York City-based nonprofit organization that focuses on supporting the people and populations of the Caribbean Diaspora, will on Friday, Sept. 12, host an innovative and culturally immersive event to empower members of the community through their healing journey. Trinidadian-born founder and president Ozzie Stewart told Caribbean Life on Tuesday, Sept. 9, that the organization will host the epic event to help heal […]