The Bahamas defend its oversight record
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life Less than two weeks after one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency firms collapsed in the midst of a horrid mismanagement scandal, The Bahamian government is now under severe pressure to defend its record regarding its…
POP-UP CARNIVAL
“TF Pop-Up Caribbean Carnival” in Times Square By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Alton Aimable, the St. Lucian-born producer and founder of the Brooklyn-based Tropicalfete, Inc. says the cultural group hosted on Sunday an historic and spectacular “TF Pop-Up…
Caribbean Life’s Caribbean Roundup
From Caribbean Life Today’s Top Stories from Caribbean Life ANTIGUA The Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne is not in support of a proposal for the majority shareholding in a new regional airline to be placed in the hands…
‘The world has lost a giant’ in Joyce Quamina: Parker
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life In paying tribute to Trinidadian Joyce Quamina, one of the former stalwart executive members of the Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer of the annual massive carnival parade on Brooklyn’s…
Judge Dweynie Paul tells of COVID-19 impact on Court
By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Haitian American Judge Dweynie Esther Paul, a Kings County (Brooklyn) civil court judge, tells of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the New York court system. Judge Paul, who, in 2015, became…
‘Super Excited’ Inaugural National Caribbean American Restaurant Week
Oliver Samuels (center) in discussion with Dominic Christopher (right) and community advocate Ray Martin during launch of National Caribbean American Restaurant Week. Photo by Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Dominic Christopher, the Jamaican-born president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean American…
WI captain dedicates Test victory to Alzarri Joseph
By Nelson A. king from Caribbean Life West Indies cricket captain Jason Holder on Saturday dedicated the Caribbean sides’ humiliation of England in the second Test at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium in Antigua to fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and…
Caribbean RoundUp
By Azad Ali from Caribbean Life Antigua Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister, Gaston Browne has said that the Caribbean should be careful not to be drawn into the ideological war unfolding in Venezuela where attempts were being made to remove…
Caribbean pols rally against ending TPS for Haitians
BY NELSON A. KING From Caribbean Life Caribbean legislators in Brooklyn rallied on Monday as a United States federal trial began to protect more than 50,000 Haitian immigrants and their families from being forcibly separated by deportation. The case, Saget…
Tropicalfete
Tropicalfete’s ‘Finale’ blows audience away By Nelson A. King From Caribbean Life Brooklyn’s cultural group, Tropicalfete, recently blew the audience away with its final production for 2018 that featured the organization’s various groups. According to Alton Aimable, the St. Lucian-born…