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Michelle Buonfiglio, Northeast Lead for Inclusive Banking at J.P. Morgan Commercial Banking.

Guest Perspective

Op-Ed | Fueling NYC’s $50 billion engine: How women business owners can grow and scale

By Michelle Buonfiglio, Northeast Lead for Inclusive Banking at J.P. Morgan Commercial Banking

Governor Kathy Hochul unveils Liberty Landing, a transformative project to convert the state-owned 100,000 square-foot former Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan into affordable housing for low-income residents and supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals reentering the community. The proposed project, a joint venture between Camber Property Group and Osborne Association, would invest over $108 million in West Chelsea and provide 124 permanently affordable housing units and on-site supportive services.

Cannabis

Hochul celebrates five years of ganja legislation

By Nelson A. King

Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Terrance Drew.

Cuba

CARICOM boosts Cuba

By Bert Wilkinson

Honorees proudly pose after receiving their awards, representing branches including the U.S. Army, Army Reserve, Navy, and New York Army National Guard.

News

Sanders Jr. celebrates Women in Armed Forces at Rochdale Village event

By Orlande Fleury

Self-portrait of Trinidad and Tobago native Allison Carr, who now lives in Brooklyn, and runs her fashion boutique Collection by Ally.

News

Trinidadian’s path to fashion design

By Milette Millington

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.

Jamaica

Jamaican PM to receive AFUWI Legacy Award

By Nelson A. King

Stacy Harvey

PoliticsNY

Inside Government with PoliticsNY: A Q&A with NYS Gaming Commission’s Division of Charitable Gaming Director Stacy Harvey

Reggae Sumfest CEO Joe Bogdanovic.

Music

Gaza Meets Gully

By Nelson A. King

Dancehall star Masicka.

Music

Masicka drops ‘Boasty’

By Nelson A. King

Classic Jamaican Brown Stew Salmon

Caribbean recipes

Classic Jamaican Brown Stew Salmon

By Chris De La Rosa

Grenada’s Governor General Dame Cecile La Grenade (center) with Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell and other Cabinet officials breaking gound for the new general teaching hospital in Calivingy/Hope Vale, Grenada.

Grenada

Grenada begins construction on new state-of-the-art hospital

By Bert Wilkinson

West Indies' Stafanie Taylor in action batting against New Zealand in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 2009 Group A match.

Sports

Bowling woes

By Devika Ragoonanan

Democratic Republic of the Congo fan Michel Nkuka Mboladinga, dressed as the country's independence hero Patrice Lumumba, as fans watch the FIFA World Cup Inter-Confederation Playoff match between DR Congo and Jamaica in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo March 31, 2026.

Sports

DR Congo defeats Jamaica in FIFA playoff

By Devika Ragoonanan

An athlete in training.

Sports

Michael Johnson to repay $500K in Grand Slam Track bankruptcy deal

By Devika Ragoonanan

Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis.

Antigua

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Media Stakeout by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ghana, following the vote in the General Assembly on the Resolution declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity.

News

UN vote asserts Israel/US alliance in denouncing Transatlantic Slave Trade

By Vinette K. Pryce

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A young couple was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in their Jackson Heights apartment at the corner of 34th Avenue and 84th Street.

Young Jackson Heights couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide following domestic dispute in their apartment: NYPD

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at microphone about budget

Mamdani fires back at Menin over City Council’s budget response, charges it ignores bigger financial problems

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at microphone about budget

Mamdani fires back at Menin over City Council’s budget response, charges it ignores bigger financial problems