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Labor Day Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, will be extra special with the return of the Oracabessa Caribbean Music festival slated for Roy Wilkins Park in Queens. The festival, which was last held in 2018, will be headlined by Reggae Queens Marcia Griffiths, Louie Culture, Jada Kingdom, Terry Linen, Lady G, Ras Emmanuel and Mr. Easy,  alongside soca stars Patrice Roberts and Edwin Yearwood. Jada Kingdom. Photo by Anthony Turner Syntyche […]

With less than a week before the start of the 57th Annual West Indian American Day Carnival Week in Brooklyn, the Family Life Committee at Fenimore Street United Methodist Church (FSUMC) in Brooklyn on Saturday ensured that the community and families were kept in the carnival spirit with mas, models, Jazz, sumptuous food and pure entertainment during the church’s second annual Block Party. Wesley Millington, the Vincentian-born band leader and […]

UN Women says it has been on the ground and working to ensure that women are fully integrated into recovery efforts, as Caribbean nations begin to rebuild after Hurricane Beryl particularly ravaged the islands of the Grenadines islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada. UN Women said over the weekend that when Hurricane Beryl tore through the Caribbean in early summer, it left a trail of destroyed homes, […]

NY State Senator Kevin Parker was thrilled to welcome a long line of students and parents last Saturday at his 17th Annual Harvest Fest Back-to-School celebration in Paerdegat Park on Albany Avenue. The lawmaker took the opportunity to meet and greet the youngsters at the event that handed out more than 1000 backpacks brimming with vital school supplies, and flyers on topics like bullying and safety, needed to start the […]

After watching fellow Eastern Caribbean nations Grenada, St. Lucia and Dominica bask in the glory of their gold, silver and bronze medals won at the Paris Olympics, Antigua is preparing a completely reboot of its sports program and is set to appoint former West Indies Captain, Richie Richardson as its sports czar, officials said this week. Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced plans to tap the services of Richardson but it […]

The pitches during the men’s T20 World Cup 2024 for the first two matches at New York’s Nassau County Stadium, as well as the one for the semi-final between Afghanistan and South Africa at the Brian Lara Academy in Trinidad and Tobago, have been rated “unsatisfactory” by the ICC. The verdict comes almost two months after the tournament, which was won by India after defeating South Africa in the final. […]

Defending Women’s Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champions Barbados Royals got off to a winning start in the tournament with a thrilling one-wicket win over the Guyana Amazon Warriors at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad. The Royals were led by a magnificent performance from their captain Hayley Matthews, the best female T20 all-rounder in the world, which helped them get up to 119-9 off 19.5 overs in reply to the […]

Growing up on the islands meant that whenever we got a fever mom would make us fever-grass tea. Basically we grew up associating being sick with this bush. Fast-forward years later and being new to Canada, I was blown away by this very same fever-grass. My cousin invited me to meet her in Toronto for lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant and things would never be the same again. From that […]

The Bahamian government is readying a contingent of troops to deploy to Haiti as signs that the presence of additional personnel from other nations are urgently needed to work alongside Kenyan police officers begin to emerge. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred Mitchell told reporters this week that Bahamian military personnel have been asked to get to Haiti “as quickly as possible” to work on management strategies and logistical plans ahead […]