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Far Rockaway, New York, Oct. 3, 2025—Episcopal Health Services (EHS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dheeraj Khurana, MD, as chief of Cardiology. In this role, Dr. Khurana will lead the department’s clinical, education, and strategic initiatives. He will oversee patient care, ensure the highest quality standards, mentor physicians and students, and drive innovation in cardiovascular services.  “Since joining EHS as an attending physician, Dr. Khurana has already significantly […]

"A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence On Black Life in America" by Trymaine Lee c.2025, St. Martin's Press                                   $29.00                                 257 pages   Face it: some scores can never truly be settled. You can try tit-for-tat, scheme, and plan, but make things even? Not a chance; the other guy is probably scheming, too, so full pay-back isn't happenin'. And besides, why let revenge live in your […]

I’ve always had a soft spot for butternut squash, and this year, when I visited my dad’s garden in Toronto (you would have seen the ‘story’ on my Instagram), he had a bumper crop of pumpkins and squash waiting to be harvested. That inspired me to revisit a Caribbean classic—butternut squash with shrimp. If you’ve been following along on my “in season” series, you know I love showing how everyday […]

Barbados The Ministry of Health recently revealed that three confirmed Mpox (monkeypox) cases have been identified in three adults since August. One female and two males are affected, bringing the number of Mpox cases identified in Barbados to six since 2022. The ministry added that the three individuals have no apparent travel history. However, two are known to have been in contact with each other. The cases were isolated at […]

The Adams administration’s North Star has always been public safety. New Yorkers want to be able to send their kids to school, go to work, shop in their local store, go out for dinner, and come home safely to their family and their community. They want to feel safe AND they want to be safe, and this administration has delivered that for them. Last week, we released the 2025 third […]

Shurla Alleyne Tyler grew up in Goodwood, Tobago, the smaller island of the Brooklyn Neighbor Spreads Hope Through Essential Giving, and she has She described what life was like growing up there: "As a community, we would always go to the river, pitch marbles, walk to and from school, which made our town very tight-knit. We would go to my paternal grandmother's house in Trinidad during the holidays. It was […]

Halloween conjures up acts of ghoulish activities, gloom, dread, dark deeds, and scary situations. For a day rooted in a period of observances on the eve of All Saints Day, a Christian tradition of an evening vigil marked its origins. How it evolved to All Hallows' Eve and a celebration combining ancient pagan customs, it is now the tradition for children and adults to dress up as characters of fantasy, […]

Family members, friends, supporters, and former netballers on Saturday night, Sept. 26, feted Gloria Lewis, the Vincentian-born founding member of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean-American Netball Association (CANA), as she celebrated her 90th birthday. During the gala, at Paint Your Blessing, on Liberty Avenue in Brooklyn, patrons paid adoring tributes to Lewis, a former St. Vincent and the Grenadines national netball star, who also served as CANA’s treasurer. “What can I say […]