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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday that a specialized international force is needed to help fight gang violence in Haiti and that a weapons embargo should be implemented immediately. William O’Neill, who was appointed expert on human rights in Haiti in April, spoke at the end of a 10-day trip… Read More

Caribbean Community leaders head to Trinidad next week for what they describe as a very special summit because the sessions are being held in the place where the original Treaty of Chagauramas — the defining legal document governing the regional integration movement- was signed 50 years ago. Back then Prime Ministers Forbes Burnham of Guyana,… Read More

Caribbean music and excited chatter infused the air at the grand opening of Fe Noel Little Caribbean on June 15. Fe Noel Little Caribbean is a store and experimental space created by designer Fe Noel. Fe Noel is a designer of Grenadian descent who also grew up in the Flatbush area. She has had a… Read More

City Council Democratic incumbent Darlene Mealy has won the Democratic Primary in Tuesday’s vote, while another Democratic incumbent Charles Barron has lost in the election. With 98.4 percent of the precincts reporting, Mealy – whose District 41 includes Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Ocean Hill – garnered over 60 percent of the votes in a… Read More

In picture-perfect weather, family, friends, carnival organizers and lovers, soca artistes and elected officials were on hand Saturday for the co-naming ceremony of a street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn after renowned Trinidadian “Carnival Queen” Joyce Quamina, a long-standing treasurer of the Brooklyn-based West Indian-American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA), organizer of the annual, massive West Indian… Read More

Lo sport riveste un ruolo importante nello sviluppo fisico, psichico e sociale della persona, consente di approfondire la conoscenza del proprio corpo, delle potenzialità e dei propri limiti. In particolare è un elemento fondamentale per le persone con disabilità, un’opportunità di crescita e formazione che permette di raggiungere un importante benessere. Questa mattina è stato… Read More

The Brooklyn-based Tropicalfete, Inc. brought Caribbean culture to the Brooklyn Public Library Plaza on Sunday featuring Caribbean Festival. According to St. Lucian Alton Aimable, founder and president of Tropicalfete, Inc., the event brought “Caribbean Carnival History to life,” with over 55 performers taking the stage. Aimable said his cultural group partnered with the Brooklyn Public… Read More

The moment that my big sister, Ramona Elizabeth Rodriguez, took her last fighting breath at the hands of her abuser, our family became one more terrible statistic. We plummeted into our grief, forced to navigate a world without my sister, and we felt more alone than we knew possible. Each minute of each day, we… Read More

La Giunta comunale ha deliberato di apportare alcune modifiche al Regolamento n. 380 per la ‘Disciplina dell’attività di vendita di quotidiani e periodici’ (approvato dal Consiglio Comunale il 18 giugno 2018). La novità sostanziale consiste nell’abolizione della programmazione quantitativa che consentiva di aprire un’edicola solo nei cosiddetti “addensamenti lacunosi” e ne vietava l’apertura in quelli considerati… Read More