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Twenty-six-year-old Jenine Shepherd, president of the Jamaican American Youth Alliance (JAYA), a NY-based 501 © (3) that has supported over 30,000 young Jamaican diasporans in the USA through its advocacy, networking, and mentorship opportunities, has recently been invited to become an Honorary Advisor of the New York Committee on Sustainable Development-NY, Inc. This comes from Ms. Shepherd’s attendance at the United Nations Summit of the Future during the UN79th General […]

The highly anticipated music video for Tosh Alexander’s Reggae-fusion single “My Ting Different,” featuring Lady London, is finally in the Big Apple.  Fresh from releasing the intoxicating dance-ready audio earlier this month, entertainment publicist Paul Thom of The Thom Brand told Caribbean Life on Friday that the official music video serves as the soundtrack for the two Jamaican-American trailblazers, “chronicling Tosh and London’s extravagant takeover of recent weeks while capturing […]

Democrats across the country are reflecting on lessons learned after the party’s failure to secure the presidency and other races in the 2024 election. One such lesson can be gleaned from a ballot initiative in Massachusetts, an overwhelmingly blue state where residents rejected an attempt to eliminate the restaurant industry’s tip credit compensation system. It’s a move some New York electeds want to make in the Empire State, much to […]

Jamaicans with outstanding college loans and living in the United States will encounter several obstacles when attempting to modify or renew their immigration status. The government of Jamaica and its US counterpart have partnered to identify Jamaican immigrants with outstanding student loan arrears. Cheryl Surjue made this announcement as the manager of the Loan Servicing Department at the Student Loan Bureau (SLB) in Jamaica. She noted that there are outstanding […]

Pre-eminent Caribbean calypso-soca arranger Frankie McIntosh and Ray Allen, professor emeritus of music and American studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), on Sunday, released their book, “Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger,” during a book-signing ceremony and Steel Pan Jazz Performance at the Don Buchwald Theater and Tow Atrium, Brooklyn College. Several calypso-soca fans, music lovers, and book lovers were on hand to […]