Manhattan News – Caribbean Life

NY: Brooklyn celebrates Pride

Pridefest ‘For All Of Us’ culminates month-long period of Big Apple revelry

By Vinette K. Pryce

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Photos: Puerto Rican Day parade says ‘¡Wepa!’

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library (NYPL).

Schomburg Center to host festival celebrating 100 years next weekend

By Milette Millington

Battery Dance will begin on Aug. 10 with dynamic community workshops led by selected local dance groups.

Dance

Battery Dance to host free performances in Wagner Park

By Nelson A. King

Chef India Doris

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Chef India Doris mixes heritage with global flavor at Markette in Chelsea

New York Family

Join us at the 2nd Annual Bronx Charter School Fair on Saturday 2/‌28!

Father drumming on a couch next to his daughter and wife on Kwanzaa

New York Family

Awesome Kwanzaa Events in New York City 2025

Residents set out compost bins for collection under New York City’s expanded sanitation program.

Bronx

‘Trash Chaos’: New Yorkers frustrated by rollout of City’s new composting rules

By Tracey Khan

Jamaica Consul General to NY Alsion Wilson addresses the official launching of the Caribbean Diaspora United in June 2024 in honor of Caribbean-American Heritage Month at Russo's on the Bay in Howard Beach, Queens.

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Jamaica Consulate NY announces independence anniversary celebrations

By Nelson A. King

Consul General Ambassador Michael E. Brotherson, Bharati Kemraj (with Mayor's office Citation) Mayor Eric L. Adams, Manuel Castro, Richard David, First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella, Sookranie Dhanpat, NYPD Officer, and Marcia Martinez, pictured with the Guyana Gateway in Brooklyn & Little Guyana in Queens and the Bronx immigrant poster, in honor of the country's 59th Independence Anniversary, flag raising on May 23.

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Mayor Eric L. Adams presents Guyana with Proclamation in honor of the nation’s 59th Anniversary of Independence at a flag-raising ceremony in Manhattan

By Tangerine Clarke

Supervisor Don Clavin, Hempstead Town Board, left, Consul General of Guyana to New York, Michael E. Brotherson, Permanent Representative to the UN, Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, during an Independence flag raising ceremony last year.

Guyana

Guyana Consulate celebrates Republic Anniversary with Times Square video and Poughkeepsie Bridge lighting

By Tangerine Clarke

Mayor Eric Adams.

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Op-Ed | Celebrating 400 years of the greatest city in the world

Marcus Garvey.

Harlem Village shines spotlight on African-American heritage

By Vinette K. Pryce

BMCC President Dr. Anthony E. Munroe, left, signs agreement with Prof. Colin Gyles, CD, UCC president, flanked by officials

Jamaica

BMCC, UCC sign agreement for ‘knowledge exchange, cultural enhancement’

By Nelson A. King

Wyclef Jean performing at the Annual Haitian Day Parade with elected officials, advocates and members of the community.

Haiti

Wyclef Jean headlines star-studded Second Annual Haitian Day Parade NYC

By Nelson A. King

Far Rockaway, Queens native Gary Hilliard annually attends AADP in Harlem. Last year was no different, here he is joined by senior from the Bronx, Vena Baker.

Africa

Harlem bids farewell to summer with weekend last lap street fest

By Vinette K. Pryce

More from Around NYC

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PRIMARY RESULTS: Darializa Avila Chevalier wins NY-13, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-elected to NY-14, Ritchie Torres re-elected to NY-15

Incumbent Grace Meng delivers a speech to her supporters after winning the District 6 Democratic primary Tuesday night at Prime Met Steakhouse in downtown Flushing.

Queens’ incumbent Meng wins Congressional primary

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PRIMARY RESULTS: Darializa Avila Chevalier wins NY-13, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-elected to NY-14, Ritchie Torres re-elected to NY-15

Democratic socialist Avila Chevalier ousts longterm incumbent Espaillat in NYC primary upset