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Monica Shoy, the mother of Vincentian-born New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Deryck Shoy, said her son died suddenly on March 19, 2025. He was 45. Mrs. Shoy, also a Vincentian native, told Caribbean Life on Friday, April 11, 2025, that Officer Shoy, who had resided in Jamaica, Queens, died at Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens. “Deryck’s passion for law enforcement led him to proudly join the NYPD,” said […]

T&T's Nicholas Paul attained his second individual gold medal, the third of four medals he won when he took the top spot in the men's time trial final on the final day of the Elite Pan American Track Cycling Championships at the Paraguay National Olympic Cycling Velodrome in Asuncion, Paraguay. Paul, the penultimate rider of the eight-man final, clocked 59.729 seconds with an average speed of 60.272 kilometers per hour […]

Bahamas The Securities Commission of The Bahamas (SCB) is warning citizens against investing in a company named Incomemax, which appears to be an organization that purports to act as an investment platform and could potentially be involved in a Ponzi scheme. SCB said that Incomemax "may be conducting activities in or from within The Bahamas that are either registrable/licensable or illegal under one or more of the acts." "The Commission […]

Melissa G. Andrieux, of Haitian descent, a partner at the law firm Dorf, Nelson & Zauderer LLP in Rye, New York, although an introvert by nature, is leading the charge for stronger workplace diversity initiatives. Her fellow partner at the law firm, Jonathan Nelson, has had the most significant influence on her career. “He is a mentor to me and helped guide my path in the firm to partner and […]

Caribbean Community governments have been doing as much as possible to support an interim government in Haiti that they helped establish in the past year. However, it is now clear that they fear that that same administration could fall at the hands of a coalition of increasingly powerful marauding gangs. Frustrated at the deteriorating situation in the bloc’s most populous but politically unstable member nation, regional governments issued an international […]

April 22 marks the 55th-anniversary commemoration of Earth Day. Born in 1970 from the idea that our planet was in peril, this year's theme, "Our Power, Our Planet," continues the tradition started decades ago. Inspired by a consortium following an oil spill in Santa Barbara, fires in 1960, and other catastrophes, Wisconsin Senator and environmentalist Gaylord Nelson is credited with configuring a 24-hour period of action. "It was on that […]