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New York City Mayor, Eric Adams is celebrating, and last Thursday he explained his reason, because new data is showing a huge downward trend in unemployment in New York City especially among Black and Latino. The growth is built on the progress made in previous quarters. The all-time jobs high the city is now experiencing falls between the period of January 1, 2022, and July 1, 2024. According to Mayor […]

The family, friends, and legal counsel of Brooklyn resident Christin Emile said Monday that the NYPD’s account of his shooting death at the hands of police was not accurate.  Holding signs just outside of City Hall, a small group of Emile’s loved ones said they were rallying to set the record straight. Emile, 33, was shot to death on May 12 by police near the corner of 52nd Street and […]

Robert Persaud foreign secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on July 27, stated studies show that there is a gap of 100,000 job vacancies available across the Republic, and called on nationals in the New York diaspora to make good use of these opportunities. During a keynote address at the first ever Guyana Diaspora Job Fair in the United States, held in the ballroom of the […]

Nigel “Nigy Boy” Hector, the 23-year-old New York-based visually impaired reggae artist from Montego Bay, Jamaica returned to his hometown recently in making his stunning Reggae Sumfest debut. Anthony Turner, the New York-based Jamaican entertainment publicist, told Caribbean Life on Tuesday that Nigy Boy surprised attendees with “a blistering performance that left many reggae lovers stunned.  “They could not believe that the blind artist, who was led on the massive […]

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