Archive – Caribbean Life

A Kenyan member of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) stands next to a Maxxpro Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived for a meeting at the base in Port Au Prince, Haiti on Sept. 05, 2024

Haiti

Arrival of US armored vehicles boost to Haiti anti gang effort

By Bert Wilkinson

Minna LaFortune gives vote-of-thanks in late February 2023 as a coalition of Caribbean Americans honored Congressional Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette D. Clarke.

Music

Minna LaFortune drops ‘Baby Baby I Love You’

By Nelson A. King

Athletics - Diamond League - Monaco - Stade Louis II, Monaco - July 12, 2024 Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred reacts after winning the women's 100m

St Lucia

Olympic 100-meter champ can’t wait to head home

By Bert Wilkinson

Canadian Prime Minister Justin.

Guyana

Trudeau pays tribute to Sir Shridath Ramphal

By Nelson A. King

Council Member Rita Joseph, right, presents replica of Tyle Kobe Nichols Way to Sherma Chambers, flanked by Tyron Stearns, community coordinator for the 67th Precinct Clergy Council, popularly known as The GodSquad, who presided over the ceremony with Joseph.

Brooklyn street co-named in honor of Vincentian-American youth fatally knifed two days before Christmas in December 2020

By Nelson A. King

Savannah Spiced is located at 158 Utica Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213.

Food

Savannah Spiced: A culinary love story rooted in Caribbean heritage

By Tracey Khan

Grand Marshals with WIADCA Chairman Andrew Maloney, (left).

Carnival

Pols, grand marshals and honors at Caribbean Carnival

By Nelson A. King

djs

QNS

Legendary hip hop DJs with ties to Queens inducted into the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame

GCA Award recipients holding Stick Figure statues, Proclamations from Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, and Citations from Senator Roxanne J. Persaud. From left: Errol Hazelwood, Johanna Rae George, Calvin Booker, Andy Ninvalle, Roxanne Lashley, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, Anthony Alleyne, Lorraine Croft-Farnell, and Latoya Asim.

Guyana

GCA honors best and brightest in the community for their outstanding contributions

By Tangerine Clarke

Ryan Royston Linton, aka Gucci Boss during a recent performance at Lady Ira's Family Fun Day in Orange, NJ.

Guyana

Gucci Boss takes music world by storm, drops new release ‘Lo-Lee’

By Tangerine Clarke

Quincy Hall of United States wins gold ahead of Jereem Richards of Trinidad & Tobago.

Sports

Richards earns Bronze at Rome Diamond League

By Devika Ragoonanan

WTF Financial Planning event

AMNY

‘What The Financial!’ event with AARP New York helps you answer the question: WTF does my future hold?

Jamaica's Prime Minister, Andrew Holness.

Jamaica

Key by-elections in Jamaica

By Bert Wilkinson

Guyanese elected officials joined the Labor Day Parade on Eastern Parkway. From left Soca Monarch Adrian Dutchin, Minister Susan Rodrigues, Minister Oneidge Walron, along with Claire Patterson-Mohan, CG Michael E. Brotherson partly hidden, and Fazal Yussaff.

Guyana

Guyanese contingent illuminate folk festival, 57th carnival on Eastern Parkway

By Tangerine Clarke

Skinny Fabulous on the red carpet at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn.

Music

Skinny Fabulous biggest winner at CMA

By Nelson A. King

WIADCA President Roger Archibald, Esq., addresses Panorama on Saturday night.

Carnival

Adams, WIADCA condemn shooting at massive Caribbean Carnival Parade

By Nelson A. King

More from Around NYC

Bronx shooting Monday

Manhunt underway after 46-year-old fatally shot in broad daylight on Bronx street

postal

Postal workers held up at gunpoint for mailbox keys in Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows: NYPD

Apartment building in New York

Op-ed | New York Apartment Association’s pledge to New Yorkers

Police at scene of restaurant in Manhattan that was vandalized

Unhinged vandal tosses metal barrier through Manhattan restaurant window