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Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) on Friday strongly condemned the spread of false right-wing rhetoric, including by former US President Donald J. Trump and his Vice President running mate JD Vance, targeting Haitian migrants, and further escalating tensions and spreading misinformation. The threats come amid bomb threats that have disrupted Springfield, Ohio schools. On Friday, two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school was closed in Springfield, Ohio, […]

Council Member Farah N. Louis (D-Brooklyn) on Friday strongly condemned the spread of false right-wing rhetoric, including by former US President Donald J. Trump and his Vice President running mate JD Vance, targeting Haitian migrants, and further escalating tensions and spreading misinformation. The threats come amid bomb threats that have disrupted Springfield, Ohio schools. On Friday, two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school was closed in Springfield, Ohio, […]

The CPL highlights began when the two-time Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) winners Barbados Royals (six points) jumped to the second spot in the 2024 season on Sept. 11 when they got a 10-run win over Antigua and Barbuda Falcons via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Method at the Kensington Oval in Barbados. The Falcons scored 176 for five, with opening batsman Justin Greaves top-scoring with 61 not out off 52 […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas on Tuesday announced the return of 263 apartments to rent stabilization and reduction of rent for an additional 43 apartments throughout New York City. James said the apartments, located in 21 buildings in Central Brooklyn, Upper Manhattan and Queens, were either illegally deregulated or were subjected to illegal rent increases by the […]

The White House has named four Caribbean counties as major drug points for international cocaine trafficking but Guyana and neighboring Suriname, which have had their own problems with the illicit trade in the past escaped the rogues list unscathed. The Bahamas, Jamaica, Belize and Haiti are the four which made the list issued by Washington on Monday with officials there saying that these are significant sources of precursor chemicals used […]

Sri Lanka got their fourth Test victory on English soil securing an eight-wicket win with the assistance of an unbeaten century by opener Pathum Nissanka in the third and final match of the series against England at The Oval. England won the series 2-1 but missed out on a second clean sweep of their international summer, after they defeated the West Indies 3-0 in July. With the Sri Lankans starting […]

Olympian Jereem Richards has been awarded TT$187,500 by the Ministry of Sport and Community Development. This funding, which is awarded under the Elite Athlete Assistance Programme (EAAP) and is aligned with the National Sport Policy, is designed to help athletes like Richards cover the cost of training, international competition fees, travel and other essential expenses. Like other athletes, the ministry has continuously supported Richards’ athletic development which allowed him to […]

Olympic and World Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will receive the Keys to the City of Kingston, a prestigious honour presented by the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), which was approved during a recent KSAMC Council meeting in Kingston. Regarded as one of Jamaica’s greatest athletes, sprint legend Fraser-Pryce’s 22-year career in track and field includes excellent performances in the 60m, 100m. 200m, and 4x100m events, obtaining multiple gold medals […]

BRIC, a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn, presents this Saturday “Unbossed & Unbowed,” an immersive and interactive one-woman show written and performed by Ingrid Griffith, chronicling the life of Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for the US Presidency. The show, winner of the 2023 Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Production about Social Justice, borrows its title from Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign slogan and […]