Caribbean Life News Headlines Archive for June 23, 2025

Mayor Eric Adams speaks at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Restoration Plaza on July 28, 2022 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City

Guest Perspective

Community Op-Ed: Q-Teams: Addressing quality of life issues across our city

By Mayor Eric Adams

CGID President Rickford Burke.

Guyana

Guyana to seek extradition of Brooklyn activist Rickford Burke

By Bert Wilkinson

Lilia Burunciuc, World Bank Director for Caribbean countries.

Grenada

Closing the skills gap to create more jobs in the Caribbean

By Lilia Burunciuc, World Bank Director for the Caribbean

Andrew and Jean Morris owners of Sam's Caribbean Marketplace in West Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island.

Business

Sam’s Caribbean Marketplace: A Long Island legacy born from $50 and a dream

By Nelson A. King

Book cover of “The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery,” by Clarence A. Haynes.

Books

Looking for a great vacation read? Yeah, here’s your book!

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Guyanese-born Colle' Kharis, drops fourth album Lot 3.

Music

Colle’ Kharis turns the page with Lot 13, a bold new musical journey

By Tangerine Clarke

More from Around NYC

congestion pricing

Governor Hochul announces congestion pricing is funding air quality improvements at Hunts Point Market

Maspeth resident Roman Amatitla was arrested Wednesday and booked at the 109th Precinct in Flushing where he was charged with murder, arson, and other related crimes for setting a fire last month that killed four occupants of a residential building on Avery Avenue.

‘An act of mass murder’: Maspeth man charged with murder, arson for setting fire at Flushing residential building that killed toddler, three adults: DA

Sen. Addabbo to hear community concerns at ‘Java with Joe’ in Forest Hills

Simon Holmstrom Islanders Blackhawks

Islanders’ Simon Holmstrom talks promotion to 1st line with season teetering on brink | EXCLUSIVE