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The music of Grammy-award artistes Gwen Stefani and Lainey Wilson took center stage at King's Theatre on Flatbush on April 3 to bring awareness to women's health. Thanks to "Women Who Rock," a crusade to champion women in music and women's health, the show, titled "Audacy Leading Ladies," revved up the audience of hundreds of women. The theatre, illuminated with radiant lighting, opened with the passionate voices of Kassi Ashton, […]

Antigua and Barbuda The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has hired a United States-based legal firm to defend the country in a legal battle taking place in Florida where the attorneys of a Russian woman have sought permission to issue subpoenas to access the records of Prime Minister Gaston Browne and other officials involved in the sale of a mega-yacht that her father had abandoned. The mega-yacht, abandoned by […]

Broadway looks a tad more colorful. In part attributed to the transformation of a 1930s animated cartoon character popularly known as Betty Boop, the formerly black-and-white comic feature is now a musically engaging spectacle of the Great White Way. Spotlighting the rainbow-enchanting Jasmine Amy Rogers, "Boop! The Musical" starts off in muted black-and-white settings. It's no secret that Betty's universe encompassed the dullest gray, the bleakest black, and pale pure white. […]

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced on Thursday that they will offer a $500 bank card to anyone for turning in operable guns and assault rifles at a gun buy-back event on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Gonzalez said the event will take place, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 574 Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “Brooklyn made […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga recently announced that the city's minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers has increased to $21.44 per hour before tips following a phase in of the pay rate. He said the $21.44 rate reflects the final phase-in of the minimum pay rate for app-based delivery workers, which was […]

Internationally celebrated soca artist Kees Dieffenthaller, frontman of Kes the Band, has made history once again — this time as the first soca performer to sell out two SummerStage concerts at Central Park within hours of going on sale. “Set for July 5 and July 6, 2025, these back-to-back sold-out shows mark a groundbreaking moment not only for Kees but for the entire Caribbean music scene,” Ronnie Tomlinson, the Jamaican-born […]

Jamaica's cabinet and its lifeline tourism sector are celebrating a pledge from American Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his visit to the island last week to review the contents of periodic travel advisories because negative or inaccurate ones do indeed hurt tourism destinations like Jamaica. For decades, Jamaica and other Caribbean Community nations have been worrying about seemingly inaccurate or harsh travel advisories and how devastating they could be […]

After returning recently from several performances and TV appearances in the Gambia, West Africa, where he was given a hero's welcome, Jamaican-born, New Jersey-based dancehall DJ Ras Emmanuel has dropped an explosive new single, "Jah My Provider." On Tuesday, the award-winning Emmanuel told Caribbean Life that the new single is a collaboration with Kingston, Jamaica-based DJ Little Robert. The song speaks to "a steadfast reliance on Jah's support and mercy […]