The Cricket West Indies (CWI) Senior Men’s Selection Panel named the 15-man squad recently for the upcoming West Indies tour of Bangladesh. West Indies wicket-keeper/batter, Joshua Da Silva was chosen to captain the team in the three four-day “Test” matches against Bangladesh “A” Team, which will be starting on May 16. Alongside Da Silva, the… Read More

The West Indies duo of Andre Russell and Sunil Narine played supporting roles, but helped lift Kolkata Knight Riders to a crucial five-run win against Sunrises Hyderabad in yet another last-over thriller in the Indian Premier League at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad  recently. Russell scored 24 from 15 balls and Narine made… Read More

Jamaican sprint queen Shericka Jackson will headline the list of English-speaking Caribbean athletes in this year’s World Athletics Diamond League in Qatar. Jackson was last year’s Diamond League 200 champion and world 100 silver medallist. Also in the mix will be TT’s double-Olympic javelin medallist, Keshorn Walcott. Apart from Jackson and Walcott, former world 200… Read More

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David C. Banks on Tuesday launched “New York City Reads,” a major citywide campaign to declare literacy and reading instruction as the core focus and overriding priority of New York City’s public schools. Adams said this multi-pronged, long-range campaign renews… Read More

Elected officials, including State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, last Tuesday joined the CARE for Immigrant Families coalition at the Million Dollar Staircase in Albany in calling for the passage of the Access to Representation Act (ARA). The first-in-the-nation bill would establish a right to counsel in immigration court proceedings. Prior to the press conference, hundreds of… Read More

A major row has broken out in Trinidad following the promotion of 17 attorneys to senior counsel status including the controversial appointments of the brother and husband of recently elected President Christine Kangaloo. The appointments, nevertheless made strictly along the rules set out in the constitution, have pushed many to question the system currently used… Read More

È “Città” il tema dell’edizione 2023 del Festival MITO SettembreMusica, in programma dal 7 al 22 settembre a Milano e a Torino: un viaggio musicale che si apre al mondo grazie alla grande musica e a interpreti d’eccellenza, coinvolgendo il pubblico in una fruizione sempre più condivisa e con uno spirito di aggregazione ancora più… Read More

Several female leaders have discussed ways to achieve food sovereignty and the use of an app to help farmers connect to residents during a panel discussion on “From Food Dependence to Food Sovereignty,” held at New York University (NYU) on May 2. Journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! moderated the panel, which was co-sponsored by… Read More

Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) said on Friday that the curtains closed April 30 with another successful staging of Dominica’s Jazz ‘n Creole. With a tropical ambiance following the “rainforest fantasy” theme, the 12th edition of the event attracted about 1,800 patrons, based on preliminary reports, DDA said. “An attractive lineup catered well to a mixed audience… Read More

“White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate c.2023, University of Minnesota Press $29.95       451 pages   Hold the pickles, no mustard. Double patty, add bacon, fried onions, that’s how you like your burger. As for chicken, well, it has to have cheese, and there must… Read More