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The Prospect Park Alliance, in partnership with the League of Women Voters NYC, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter, and Brooklyn NAACP, will on Sept. 7 commemorate 100 years of Shirley Chisholm. Voter activation and registration will he held from 1:00 – 3 p.m., and performance and talk-back, 3 – 5 p.m. The late civil rights leader will be honored in a memorial at Lefferts Historic House in […]

The sweet sounds of the steel pan reverberated for over five hours Saturday night and early Sunday morning over the Brooklyn Museum Grounds and the surrounding neighborhoods in Crown Heights as the West Indian Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer of the annual New York Caribbean Week, showcased Panorama. Guest Steel Orchestra Eruption Steel Orchestra performs at Panorama 2024. Photo by Nelson A. King Thousands of pan lovers filled the grounds […]

Zahra Scott lives in Flatbush and will be starting 11th grade at Basis Independent Upper School in Brooklyn this fall. People would be surprised to know that Scott is “actually very shy, especially when meeting new people or being in new environments.” She is also obsessed with the NBC sitcom The Office. Both of her parents are from Trinidad and Tobago. My dad was born in Toco, Trinidad, and my […]

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is set to launch its first-of-its-kind global online graduate business school focused on leadership within the context of supporting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After almost two years of negotiations and operational procedures last Wednesday in Barbados, at the UWI’s Global Campus, the University of the West Indies established the new International School for Development Justice (ISDJ)  to respond to the […]

Citing current commitments to the international cricket circuit, former West Indies cricket captain and legend Richie Richardson has backed away from an offer to become sports minister as part of wider plans by the federation with Barbuda to put the country in a position to win medals at the next Olympics in the US in 2028. Prime Minister Gaston Browne had tapped Richardson, a match referee with the International Cricket […]

“The Fallen Fruit” by Shawntelle Madison c.2024, Amistad                                              $28.00                                       437 pages   You’re lucky you didn’t hit your head! The damage you did to yourself was bad enough, you didn’t need a head wound to lay you low, too. You haven’t skinned your knees like that since you were ten years old. Your elbow still hurts from that tumble. But read the new book, “The Fallen Fruit” by Shawntelle […]

The West Indian American Day Carnival Junior competition on Aug. 31, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, reached a fever pitch, as thousands of children showed there moves in dazzling costumes during an hours-long parade, fueled by loud Soca music. The parade assembled at Kingston Avenue approximately at its scheduled time and then traveled on St. John’s Place, for a riveting presentation as it moved on to Franklin Avenue. Machel Montano’s infectious […]

Barbados The Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) says it does n0t intend “to manipulate or distort economic data” as it dismissed accusations that it is involved in publishing questionable data in its economic report and analysis. In a statement the CBB said, “We assure all Barbadians that there is no intent to manipulate or distort economic data. We will continue to refine our models and methodologies, ensuring that the Central […]

In picture-perfect weather, millions of spectators and thousands of masqueraders and revelers on Monday converged on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway for the 57th Annual West Indian American Day Carnival Parade. The New York Caribbean Carnival Week, which started on Thursday, culminated on Monday, Labor Day, a public holiday in the United States, with the grand parade of masqueraders, with large and small costumes, displaying the culture of the Caribbean, along a […]