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Bloomberg Philanthropies has made Montego Bay, Jamaica, the first Caribbean city to benefit from the Bloomberg Global Initiative, which spans over six continents and almost 100 cities. Jamaica will receive a boost to enhance its climate change resilience and youth empowerment program. This contribution is a double effort of J$16 million, following an initial investment of J$8 million. The initial $8 million investment funded several impactful projects across Montego Bay. […]

Gudakesh Motie and Jomel Warrican's performances handed West Indies a nine-run, first-innings lead against Pakistan as 20 wickets fell on the opening day of the second Test at Multan Cricket Stadium. Motie scored 55 to lift his team from a precarious 54-8 to 163 all out. The left-arm spinner then bagged 3-49 to dismiss Pakistan for 154. His all-round performance over-shadowed Noman Ali's hat trick for Pakistan and 6-41 as […]

The MVP Track Club duo of Jamaicans Kishane Thompson and Tia Clayton, both won gold at the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes in Kazakhstan recently. The 23-year-old, Olympic 100 metres silver medallist, Kishane Thompson was able to get his indoor season off to a winning start by capturing the 60 metres final in a time of 6.56 seconds at the opening World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of […]

West Indies Women’s Captain Hayley Matthews again led with the bat and ball to give her team a nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh Women in the first One-Day International at Warner Park in St. Kitts. Matthews captured two wickets with her off-spin, cracked an exhilarating, unbeaten century to ensure the Windies victory, and took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Player-of-the-Match Matthews added 163 runs for the opening partnership with […]

Pakistan’s bowlers Sajid Khan and Abrar Ahmed trampled West Indies’ batsmen to give their side a 127-run victory inside three days at the Multan Cricket Stadium. Player-of-the-Match Khan bagged five wickets, while Ahmed grabbed four wickets, which overshadowed a career-best bowling performance by West Indies leg spinner Jomel Warrican. Warrican’s superb 7-32, which saw him end with 10-101, had earlier instigated a Pakistan middle-order collapse that resulted in them losing […]

For many who are not fans of the Jamaican Dancehall genre, superstar performer Vybz Kartel was a detested convicted murderer facing a lengthy sentence in a local jail for a murder committed back in 2011. was a detested convicted murderer facing a lengthy sentence in a local jail for a murder committed back in 2011. However, for the millions of fans in the Caribbean and worldwide, Kartel is a superhero […]

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On Jan. 13, the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History (BPL-CBH) hosted an in-person and virtual conversation with Michelle Adams, who discussed her debut book "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North" (MacMillan, 2025). Aaron Robertson, author of "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (MacMillan, 2024), moderated the event. An excerpt of the book description […]