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The New York State Senate has passed a resolution by state Sen. Zellnor Y. Myrie (D-Central Brooklyn) honoring the contributions of Black Baseball to the State of New York. The resolution came on the heels of Major League Baseball’s decision to include in its official statistics the career records of Black players from the game’s segregated era.  The Assembly adopted a companion resolution sponsored by Assembly Member Al Taylor (D-Manhattan).  […]

Bahamas British carrier Virgin Atlantic will end flights to Bahamas early next year, only after two years of introducing flights in response to “real demand.” The airline’s final flight to The Bahamas will be on Feb. 23, 2025.  While Virgin is ending flights to The Bahamas, it will increase flights to other islands which include Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. According to the airline, its decision followed a review of […]

St Lucian Julien Alfred and Dominican Thea La Fond magical performances at the Paris Olympics to deliver historic gold medals for their respective nations. The 23-year-old Alfred stunned reigning World champion Sha’Carri Richardson of the United States in the 100-meter final, clocking a new national record of 10.72 seconds, securing St Lucia’s first-ever medal at an Olympiad. While celebrations were ongoing, 30-year-old La Fond produced a new national record of […]

Legendary former West Indies captain Sir Clive Lloyd is calling for better disbursement of allocations for cricket boards from the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lloyd was speaking during the 47th Regular meeting of the Caricom Heads of Government where he was honored with the Order of the Caricom Community in Grenada recently. The current financial model adopted by the ICC, sees the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) taking […]

West Indies Women’s captain Hayley Matthews and West Indies Men’s white-ball head coach Daren Sammy said they were looking forward to making purposeful contributions to a new health, fitness and well-being advisory board being established by the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) organizers. Matthews and Sammy, the League’s joint chief medical officer, Dr. Akshai Mansingh and the Principal Medical Officer of the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Health, Dr Maryam Abdool-Richards […]

Artists including tap dancer/choreographer Lisa La Touche and jazz saxophonist/composer Immanuel Wilkins will be working with the Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) until October, as they are a part of the 2024 cohort of the museum’s Armstrong Now Artist-in-Residence program, announced last month.   This comes as the museum’s Center celebrates one year of being opened in Queens. The Museum has also recently won the IMLS National Medal for Museums, which […]

Rickford Burke, chairman of the Brooklyn-based Guyana Independence Celebration Committee New York, says that his organization will host the official annual celebration of Guyana’s 58th Anniversary of Independence on Sunday, August 18, in Brooklyn. Burke, who is also president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), told Caribbean Life on Tuesday that the celebration comprises the Independence Parade, Flag-Raising and Award Ceremonies, and the grand Guyana Independence Unity […]

Basking in the glory associated with its first Olympic gold medal, St. Lucia’s government has plans to soon declare a national holiday in honor of Julien Alfred, 23, who triumphed in the women’s 100-meter race on Saturday. Alfred defeated a star-studded field by a sizeable margin to put the Eastern Caribbean nation on the world map for reasons other than tourism and Nobel Peace prizes. Seizing the moment as Alfred […]

Given the global publicity in the wake of the recent arrests of several Americans with ammunition in their luggage in the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), one would have assumed that visitors to the Caribbean island would thoroughly search their bags when traveling there. But authorities there have arrested two people in the past week, one with a full box of handgun ammunition as they were […]