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Tropicalfete, last Sunday, for the third year in a row, brought the colorful spirit of the West Indies to the cross-roads of the world, putting thousands of on-lookers, many nationals, into a screaming frenzy at its Pop-Up Caribbean Carnival in Times Square, on Broadway, between W46th & W47th avenues. Alton Aimable, founder, and president of the non-profit, that promote culture as a tool for social transformation, brought popular Trinidad Soca […]

Jamaican residents of Chicago are enthusiastically embracing policies Vice President Kamala Harris proposed during last week’s Democratic National Convention which was held in the state of Illinois. “A change is coming,” Ephraim Martin said after hearing priorities laid out by the potential first female commander in chief. “I accept your nomination to be president of the United States,” a confident, fast ascending challenge to the Republicans said. “We’ve come a […]

Shelley V. Worrell, the Trinidadian-American founder, chief vibes officer and band leader of I AM CARIBBEING and Little Caribbean in East Flatbush and Flatbush in Brooklyn, says she’s “honored” to portray “Sailing Di Parkway” for the massive West Indian American Day Carnival Parade on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, for Labor Day Monday. “Sailing Di Parkway’ is our interpretation of Sailor Mas, which originated in Trinidad and Tobago,” Worrell told Caribbean Life […]

Caribbean governments Friday appealed to the region to take precautions against the mpox disease outbreak saying it is not impossible for it to spread from Africa to the Caribbean in the coming months. Bloc Chairman and Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said health officials and the public need to be on the lookout especially for the clade1b version of the disease as he called for a proactive posture to prevent […]

Though his band is not participating this year in Brooklyn’s West Indian American Day Association’s (WIADCA) panorama competition, Trinidadian pannist Brian Nicholas is still very busy practicing and preparing Blacklove Steel Orchestra for prospective performances. Nicholas, the founder and chief executive officer of the Brooklyn-based Blacklove Steel Orchestra, told Caribbean Life that he is “looking at a broader picture” in which he envisages Blacklove’s future participation in WIADCA’s panorama, competing […]

Since dropping the hard-hitting “Ghetto People Song” 30 years ago that made him a household name, veteran singer Everton Blender’s career is about to take flight again with his latest project, “Can’t Take my Space,” a new album that is scheduled for release later this month. Blender, 68, told Caribbean Life on Monday that the 14-song disc is his first studio album since his last album in 2011, titled “Higher […]

In participating this year, for the very first time, in the West Indian American Day Carnival, the Brooklyn-based On Your Toes Dance Studio will be portraying the “The Four Elements” in the Junior Carnival category. “On Your Toes Dance Studio has been serving the community with high quality for 15 years and decided to launch our own junior mas band,” Jamaican-American band leader Althea Holmes, who also owns On Your […]

By the end of this year, the Trinidad government would ensure that the national coat of arms no longer bears the images of the three ships that Christopher Columbus and his sailors used on their maiden voyage to “rediscover” the West Indies more than 800 years ago, saying it will be removed as part of the process of sanitizing the country from its colonial past. Prime Minister Keith Rowley told […]