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The one day in the year which most articulates gratitude of past, and present enlistees to the US Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard arrive on Nov. 11, Veterans Day. While the last day in May maintains significance as Memorial Day, the nation’s commemorations then annually focus on the contributions of deceased military personnel. However, on this particular fall date, an all encompassing period enables citizen to citizen […]

“Groundbreaking Magic: A Black Woman’s Journey Through the Happiest Place on Earth” by Martha Blanding with Tim O’Day c.2024, Disney Editions                                        $25.99                               364 pages   Your dream job is still a job. You still must be there on time, looking presentable and ready to go. You can love the work and dislike your coworkers, embrace the challenge but hate the drudge, enjoy the process but dread the politics. And […]

As Americans vote in the Presidential Elections on Tuesday, an overwhelming number of Caribbean community and political activists and legislators in New York are urging Caribbean nationals to cast ballots for Democratic United States Vice President , the daughter of retired Jamaican economist Dr. Donald Harris, saying she is the better candidate to be the next President of the U.S. In what polls and pundits indicate is a dead-locked race, […]

Consul General of Guyana to New York Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, during a recent diaspora outreach in Queens, announced that his office had engaged the International Organization for Migration, ((IOM) on a diaspora project which will take professionals from the Tri-state area to lend their skills in Guyana, and to learn more of the Republic during an upcoming mission. The program, in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed […]

Amanda Fludd, LCSW-R, has called Brooklyn home for over 15 years and is of Trinidadian descent. In a surprising twist, Fludd was naturally left-handed. However, her Caribbean mother, following a superstition that being left-handed meant one “owed the devil money,” raised her to use her right hand instead. “I vividly remember catching myself signing my name with my left hand as a teenager and dropping the pen like I’d been […]