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Openers Evin Lewis and Shai Hope provided a historic batting performance to propel the West Indies to a 62-run victory against Ireland in the third and final T201. Player-of-the-Match Lewis was just nine runs short of his third T201 century, while captain Hope smacked 51 runs off 27 balls, as the West Indies posted a massive 256 for 5 from their 20 overs after being sent in to bat at […]

Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson honored Caribbean Life and several community figures and entrepreneurs during her Gala Annual Caribbean-American Heritage Month Celebration at Andrew Freeman House, 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, on Wednesday, June 18. The other honorees included D.J. Kool Herc, widely regarded as the founding father of Hip Hop; Cindy Campbell, model, fashion industry leader, and cultural ambassador, who played a key role in the early days of […]

Bahamas According to Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper, the Bahamian government is moving swiftly to restore the Florida-Bahamas air routes after Silver Airways abruptly terminated operations on June 11 after filing for bankruptcy. This disrupted services to several key destinations, including North Eleuthera, Governor's Harbour, Exuma, Marsh Harbour, Bimini, Freeport, and New Providence. However, beginning June 23, the national carrier Bahamasair will increase flights to fill the gap caused by […]

Two Queens restaurant owners celebrated the fifth anniversary of their restaurant located at JFK Airport. Michael Duncan and Annette Runice celebrated the anniversary of the J&P Runway Cafe during National Small Business Week on May 8th. They were joined by the Queens Borough President and other elected officials to mark the major milestone.  Duncan owns and operates the Jamaica Breeze restaurant chain, Queens-based self-serve buffet-style restaurants serving popular Jamaican breakfast, […]

Moruga, Trinidad, is not only known for having one of the world’s hottest peppers, like the ones I used in making my take on the World’s Hottest Homemade Peppersauce a few years ago. Having a vibrant Merikin community, the Moruga Hill Rice is world-renowned. Which they brought to Trinidad and Tobago around 1812. You’ll Need… 4 chicken legs (drumsticks with thighs) 1 lb pumpkin 2 onions 2 large carrots 1 […]

Rickford Burke, president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), welcomed the dismissal of the defamatory libel charges against him by Guyana's Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire late Friday, June 20.   Earlier Friday, the justice ruled that criminal defamatory libel is unconstitutional and violates the enshrined right to freedom of expression.  “I thank the court for this historic ruling,” Burke told Caribbean Life. “The judgment of the Chief […]

New Yorkers love their city, but they are very clear about what they don’t love about living here: noise, trash, illegal vending, open-air drug use, reckless driving, double parking, and other everyday offenses. These and many other quality-of-life issues affect not just the reality of public safety, but the feeling of safety that makes life in our city possible. As we have so often said, public safety is about more […]

A thorn in the side for years of the governing People's Progressive Party (PPP), Guyanese authorities have announced plans and efforts to have a top Brooklyn-based political activist extradited to Guyana to face alleged extortion charges. Critics say that if American authorities agree to a request to send Rickford Burke back to his native Guyana in the coming months, this would fulfill the PPP's long-held ambition to silence one of […]