Caribbean Life News Headlines Archive for June 24, 2024

Grenada PM Dickon Mitchell addresses town hall at Brooklyn College on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022.

Barbados

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

News

Puerto Rico power company suspends $65M worth of maintenance projects, sparking outcry amid outages

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS

News

US judge sentences Germine Joly, former leader of a powerful gang in Haiti, to 35 years in prison

By DÁNICA COTO

Caribbean Media Awards: From left, Romardo Lyons from TVJ Jamaica, Kaitlyn McNab, Teen Vogue, Kenneth Bryan, minister for Tourism & Ports of the Cayman Islands, Melissa Noel, ESSENCE and Brent Pinheiro of the Trinidad Guardian.

Tourism

Caribbean Media Awards 2024: A celebration of excellence in promoting tourism

By Tracey Khan

Rita and Cedella Marley in Nassau, Bahamas on July 25, 2016.

Music

Dawn to dusk global Reggae tribute to Marley matriarch

By Vinette K. Pryce

News

Haiti’s interim government battles to settle in

By Bert Wilkinson

Books about the Civil War.

Books

What do you know about history? (Learn more here)

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Award recipients, from left, Rev. Ingrid Herod Van Sertima, Bibi Alli, and Tangerine Clarke, at East Orange NJ City Hall, during a 58th Independence Anniversary flag raising and awards celebration on June 14.

Guyana

East Orange leaders applaud Guyanese impact at Independence Flag Raising

By Tangerine Clarke

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Throggs Neck celebrates Irish pride at 28th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade

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Whitestone Republican Club draws packed crowd as Blakeman, Paladino rally support for 2026 elections

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Op-Ed | Flawed 340B Program raises costs for taxpayers and employers. It’s time for reform.

Iran World Cup

FIFA suggests it will not move Iran’s World Cup matches from USA to Mexico