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This Jamaican style escovitch fish takes be back 21 years, when my friends and I would head down to Toronto to shop for records (remember 45’s and 33’s?) for our aspiring DJ business. That trip usually had us end up in the Jamaican community on Eglinton Ave where there were not only many record stores selling the latest dancehall tracks from Jamaica, but quite a few restaurants where we would […]

Grenadians turned out in their thousands on Sunday, to in relative terms, celebrate a ‘pot’ of medals at the just concluded Paris summer Olympics with team members and coaches being honored at public ceremony where cash and material gifts were also handed out and after a motorcade that had snaked its way through various city streets whipping up a level of national fervor perhaps not seen since independence 50 years […]

On Oct. 7, 2023, our world changed forever. As families in southern Israel celebrated the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, unleashing a brutal attack that left over 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage, nearly all civilians. It was the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Nine months later, 120 hostages remain in captivity, including eight US citizens. These are our neighbors, colleagues […]

Trinidadian-American Nancy Tannis says the Brooklyn-based Kaisokah Moko Jumbies USA will “Watch Meh” for Junior Carnival this Labor Day. “We came up with that theme after our band leader Jason Edwards had a dream of the kids and parents talking about their costumes and simply saying to each other ‘Watch Meh’”, Tannis, section leader for the Special Needs Section, told Caribbean Life. “The theme gives the kids the chance to […]

“The Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans” by Theresa McCulla c.2024, The University of Chicago Press                          $32.50                              345 pages   You’ve spent a lot of time scouring the internet in search of menus. Will you try this dish, or that one? Sample two entrees, or three? Can you understand the people in a city without tasting their best dishes? You’ll know soon enough because you’ve chosen the […]

NYC Health + Hospitals on Thursday announced the appointment of Dominican Republic-born Cristina Contreras, LMSW, MPA, FABC as the CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, and Trinidadian-born Julian John, MPA as CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan. In these roles, NYC Health + Hospitals said the CEOs will ensure all New Yorkers have access to high-quality health care, grow services at the hospitals, and develop strategies to support staff recruitment […]

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says 20 officials involved in the management and administration of justice and citizen security in St. Lucia have participated in a two-day workshop aimed at strengthening human rights-based and gender-sensitive policing in St.  Lucia. UNODC said on Thursday that it organized and facilitated the August 14-15 workshop, dubbed “Enhance Equal Access to Justice for All in St. Lucia, with coordination support […]

The Government of Canada says that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille have agreed on the importance of working closely with the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) and taking the “appropriate steps” toward holding free and fair elections in the violence-wracked, beleaguered French-speaking Caribbean country. In speaking with Conille on Thursday, the Canadian Government said Trudeau congratulated him on his appointment and thanked him for his efforts […]