South Queens Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar last Tuesday tabled legislation in the State Assembly that would give New York City and other municipalities in New York State the power to immediately close all illegal, unlicensed cannabis and other smoke shops. Rajkumar — who represents the 38th Assembly District, encompassing the neighborhoods of Glendale, Ozone Park, Richmond… Read More

Lourdes Jacqueline Lacho Apolinario è una mamma che come lavoro assiste una persona anziana. Dal 2007 è anche la capitana Seleccion Peruana de Futbal Feminino che riunisce quindici donne e ragazze desiderose a fine giornata di dare quattro calci ad un pallone. La squadra partecipa al torneo di Balon Mundial, la manifestazione organizzata sui campi… Read More

La scorsa settimana, a seguito di un’attività di indagine scaturita da una segnalazione da parte di ATC relativa alla presenza di persone sconosciute nelle cantine del comprensorio edilizio ubicato in via Bologna 265 e 267 la Polizia Locale, insieme a tecnici di ATC, ha effettuato un intervento di controllo durante il quale sono state ispezionate… Read More

Retired West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman Shane Dowrich is suing Cricket West Indies for close to US$172,000 for loss of earnings in a lawsuit filed last month in the High Court of Barbados. He is seeking special damages for being considered ineligible for selection in Tests between February 2021 and August 2022. The lawsuit stemmed from the… Read More

Jewel Robinson, a native of Guyana, has been a teacher at Queens Preparatory Academy (QPA) since September 2011, at a time when the school did not have a journalism program. She got her Associates of Arts (A.A) degree in Advertising, Marketing and Communications at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Afterwards, she attended St. John’s University,… Read More

Sulla base dei dati previsionali sulla qualità dell’aria forniti oggi da Arpa Piemonte è stato confermato il livello 0 (bianco) delle misure antismog. Fino a venerdì 26 gennaio 2024 compreso – prossimo giorno di controllo – resteranno pertanto in vigore le sole misure strutturali di limitazione al traffico. Eventuali variazioni del semaforo antismog in vigore,… Read More

A Brooklyn-born, Jamaican-American clergyman is calling for an immediate ceasefire and the “massive infusion of humanitarian aid” amid the Israeli-Hamas war. “Israel would do well to avoid the errors made by the United States in the emotion of responding,” the Rev. Ian B. Straker, whose late parents, John and Yvonne Straker, were immigrants from Jamaica,… Read More

The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica will be the beneficiary of a philanthropic gesture, a sum of $US2.3 million dollars. At the handover ceremony, on the campus recently, Statesman in Residence and former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Percival James Patterson lauded the late businessman and founder of Island Car Rental Ltd.,… Read More

Despite the snowy weather, several Vincentian musicians and artistes in the New York Metropolitan Area on Friday evening paid tribute to Vincentian music icon Bernard “Bonnie” Browne during a Memorial Tribute at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church on Hawthorne Street in Brooklyn. Browne died on Dec. 10 in Brooklyn. He was 73. The late Vincentian musician… Read More

Caribbean governments have not as yet announced a new date for the latest round of mediation talks with varied political and civil society stakeholders in strife-torn Haiti, but Bahamian Prime Minister Phillip Davis says the region has no choice but to help its poorest member nation. Speaking at a summit of the Non Aligned Movement… Read More