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Growing up on the islands meant that whenever we got a fever mom would make us fever-grass tea. Basically we grew up associating being sick with this bush. Fast-forward years later and being new to Canada, I was blown away by this very same fever-grass. My cousin invited me to meet her in Toronto for lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant and things would never be the same again. From that […]

The Bahamian government is readying a contingent of troops to deploy to Haiti as signs that the presence of additional personnel from other nations are urgently needed to work alongside Kenyan police officers begin to emerge. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred Mitchell told reporters this week that Bahamian military personnel have been asked to get to Haiti “as quickly as possible” to work on management strategies and logistical plans ahead […]

Leah Clark Brisard, an executive member of the Brooklyn-based Carlos Lezama Archives and Caribbean Cultural Center (CLACC-C), says that the center on Saturday hosted a very successful, free 12th annual youth pan festival competition that honored late stalwarts in the community. Clark Brisard told Caribbean Life that the event – which took place on St. John’s Place, between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, from 1 p.m. to […]

The USVI and the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are continuing efforts for more collaboration and advanced partnership between the two parties. This is according to a recent report coming from a meeting, which included the USVI Governor, Albert Bryan, Jr., Teri Helenese, director of State-Federal Relations, and Washington’s Representative for the USVI, and Elizabeth Solomon, CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General for Foreign and Community Relations and her team. This new development is […]

Antigua and Barbuda The Heart Bible International University (HBIU) and Seminary, a historically Black institution based in Connecticut, has honored Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda. In a letter to Browne, the academic institution said he was being given the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and was being made an honorary professor in humanitarianism. In the letter, Chancellor Professor Dr. Donnett Mcintosh and vice chancellor Professor Peter Abraham credited […]

“A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune” by Noliwe Rooks c.2024, Penguin Press                                                 $28.00                                 208 pages   Ten feet tall. Larger than life. Surely, that describes the person in history you most admire. He was a giant among men. Her actions were bigger than anyone could imagine in her time and place. You think about that a lot, and the rest of their story. […]

United Community Centers (UCC) Mas in East New York, Brooklyn will be portraying “A Day at the Circus” for the very first time in competing in the Junior Carnival in the Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Association’s (WIADCA) Carnival. “I just want to do something fun and whimsical to introduce carnival to our young kids,” Diana Barnes, band leader, designer and executive director at the center, 613 New Lots Ave., […]

A week after Grenada threw a huge party, motorcade and presentation of gifts for three medalists at the just-concluded Paris Olympics, fellow Eastern Caribbean island nation of Dominica on Sunday did likewise for triple jumper Thea La Fond-Gadson who brought the first ever Olympic medal to the Emerald Island. La Fond-Gadson, her husband and coach Aaron as well as other family members rode in a state vehicle and motorcade from […]