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As several islands including Jamaica, Carriacou, Petite Martinique clean up from superstorm Beryl last month, the region is once again preparing for possible landfall from another storm as the global community monitors the development of Tropical Storm Ernesto as it barrels its way through the regional island chain this week. Puerto Rico, The US Virgin Islands, others as far north as Bermuda in the mid-Atlantic have all issued storm warnings, […]

Clive W, Blackwood, executive vice president and general auditor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was among a number of luminaries who were honored Saturday night at the Third Annual Jamaica People’s Independence Ball at Terrace On The Park in Queens.  The glitzy, sold-out, Black-tie gala, organized by the New York-based Jamaica Independence Foundation, Inc., headed by Julie L. Brook, celebrated Jamaica’s 62nd Independence Anniversary.  Other honorees included […]

Organizers are anticipating another massive Vincy Day USA Picnic on Saturday at the picturesque Heckscher State Park in East Islip. Vincy Day USA, Inc., the Brooklyn-based Vincy Day Organizing Committee, said on Monday that the much-anticipated annual gathering “brings together the Vincentian community for a day filled with culture, camaraderie and celebration,” stating that the “the lush landscapes” at Heckscher State Park will “provide the perfect backdrop for a day […]

On August 16, jazz vocalist and trumpeter Jumaane Smith, a native of Seattle, Washington, will be celebrating the release of his new album, Come on Home. “This album is my life experience put into music, all of the ups and downs, peaks and valleys, trials and tribulations,” Smith says.  When Smith was a kid he went through a lot of tough things at home, and in the midst of all […]

Sri Lanka beat India for the first time in 27 years in a bilateral one-day international series when it cascaded to a 110-run win in the third and final match, winning the series 2-0 in Colombo. They pulled off a thrilling tie in the first ODI before winning the second by 32 runs. India hadn’t lost an ODI series to Sri Lanka since 1997. They were bowled out for 138 […]

Antigua and Barbuda  The newly formed LIAT 2020 made its inaugural flight to St. Lucia last Tuesday, returning to the skies of the inter-regional airline, whose previous owners, LIAT (1974) Ltd went bankrupt in January this year.  LIAT 1974 Ltd has been under administration since July 24, 2020, and the new entity has been formed in partnership with Air Peace, a private Nigerian airline, founded in 2013 would be putting […]

Prime Minister Andrew Holness called an early Monday meeting of his security advisers after eight people were killed in overnight violence in the central-southern District of Clarendon just weeks after 24 people were killed in gun violence in a single week late last month. Facing a general election next year with his governing Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) trailing in the polls, Holness urged police and soldiers to relentlessly pursue those […]

Jamaican Kishane Thompson was beaten out for gold by the slimmest of margins on a perfectly timed lean from American Noah Lyles on August 4, for the 100-meter race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.  Their times of 9.79 seconds needed to be calculated farther out to determine the winner with Lyles winning 9.784 to 9.789. Thompson was five-thousandths of a second away from joining the company of fellow Jamaican Usain […]