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Guyana's President, Dr. Irfaan Ali, has condemned the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for its decision to prohibit players from competing in overseas T20 leagues, including the Guyana-based Guyana Super League (GSL). Describing the move as "unsustainable," Dr. Ali said the BCCI could enforce such legislation because it was now the superpower of world cricket. While the Indian Premier League (IPL) is regarded as the biggest T20 […]

With the clock ticking on Grenada's decision whether to allow the US to set up a military radar system on the island to monitor its nemesis, Venezuela, Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has said he will update the nation when parliament meets later this week, even as a key sub-regional bloc says it fully supports the nation at this hour. Speaking on his social media program with constituents and citizens, Mitchell […]

As Vincentians in the United States began celebrating their 46th Anniversary of political independence from Great Britain on Sunday, Oct. 19, Ambassador to the United States Lou-Anne Gilchrist urged nationals to also celebrate the country’s new identity. “On Oct. 27, 1979, the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a newly independent nation, was hoisted for the very first time. From that moment, our blessed homeland became a sovereign state, […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul slammed Washington Republicans on Tuesday, Oct. 21, for sending health care costs skyrocketing for 140,000 New Yorkers. Hochul said that, as the GOP refuses to extend the existing enhanced premium tax credits, New Yorkers who rely on the ACA subsidies for affordable, quality coverage are now being notified that their health insurance premiums will increase by an average of 38 % next year – an […]

Due to an impending union strike by Broadway musicians, there is uncertainty along the Great White Way about the viability of staging musical productions. However, Off-Broadway sounding chords of lyrical nostalgia, "44 The Musical" offers alluring, audio entreatments at the Daryl Roth Theater in Union Square. Staged to reprise two consecutive terms of an unprecedented US presidency, the musical pays tribute to the first elected African-American whose storied ascendancy from […]

Two aspiring Caribbean-American registered nurses on Saturday, Oct. 4, were awarded scholarships from the Bronx, Manhattan and Westchester Chapter of the Caribbean American Nurses’ Association, Inc. (CANA) during the group’s 28th Annual Vernese Weekes Scholarship Luncheon, at Eastwood Manor, on Eastchester Road, in the Bronx. The recipients were Veronica Weekes, the daughter of the late Barbadian-born registered nurse Vernese Weekes after whom the Scholarship Award is named, and Dominican Republic-American […]

Caribbean Community leaders issued a statement at the weekend, urging a peaceful resolution to the crisis in the Southern Caribbean but as they united on the issue, one of its founding members made it clear it has a much different view of the situation. Trinidad and Tobago said it had adopted a much different attitude to the others in the 15-member grouping by throwing its full support behind the region, […]

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. on Oct. 16 lit the religious Diya at the Kissena Boulevard, Queens Hindu Center in observance of his Administration’s Annual Diwali - a festival of lights observed by Hindus. The politician who was draped with a Hindu scarf in honor of the festival, later, presented Citations of Honor to community members who have been leading in various ways throughout the borough. They are Rasik […]