Once the holidays are over, you may look around you at a floor full of spent wrapping paper and sad ribbons and wonder, “What’s next?” A whole new year, that’s what, and a dozen great books worthy of reaching back to find. Here they are, in no certain order, the Bookworm’s Best of 2024… FICTION… Read More

West Indies fast bowler Shamar Joseph has been one of the individuals nominated for the ICC’s prestigious Men’s Emerging Cricket of the Year award. Joseph, Gus Atkinson of England, Kamindu Mendis of Sri Lanka, and Pakistan’s Saim Ayub were announced as the first shortlist for its 2024 awards. The 25-year-old Joseph took 29 wickets in… Read More

T&T Football Association (TTFA) Technical Director Anton Corneal is one of a select group of technical leaders worldwide to graduate from the first edition of FIFA’s Technical Leadership Diploma. According to a release from TTFA, Corneal attended the final block of an 18-month-long course, which concluded with a series of assessment presentations and a graduation… Read More

The hospitality and tourism industry are the lifeblood of New York City’s economy. When we came into office three years ago, our city was emerging from the depths of the pandemic. Streets were empty and businesses were struggling to survive — and our tourism industry was hit hard. But our administration went to work to build a… Read More

Deepti Sharma and Renuka Singh dismantled the West Indies Women’s batting, carrying India Women to a comfortable five-wicket victory and a sweep of the three-match One-Day International series at India’s Kotambi International Cricket Stadium. Player-of-the-Match Sharma collected six wickets, her second five-wicket haul in ODIs, and Singh, who was named Player-of-the-Series, bagged the other four… Read More

President of Cricket West Indies (CWI), Dr. Kishore Shallow, has set the record straight about undertaking governance reform of regional cricket. Recently, the directors from the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) decided not to attend a board meeting where the regional cricket body was due to continue discussing and implementing recommendations… Read More

Resterà in vigore fino a venerdì 3 gennaio 2025 compreso (prossimo giorno di controllo) il livello 1 (arancio) delle limitazioni emergenziali. Si ricorda inoltre che mercoledì 1 gennaio 2025 le limitazioni del traffico ambientali sono sospese, mentre da giovedì 2 gennaio stop è previsto lo stop anche per i veicoli commerciali euro 5 diesel che,… Read More

Bahamas The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB) says provisional data suggest that in November, the domestic economy experienced growth but at a tempered pace compared to the previous year. “In particular, economic indicators continued to trend closer to their expected medium-term trajectory,” the CBB said in the Monthly Economic and Financial Developments (MEFD) November… Read More

Authorities in Suriname have returned the body of former military strongman and ex-president Desi Bouterse to close relatives and to his National Democratic Party (NDP) after learning over the weekend that he had died of liver failure linked to excessive drinking while in hiding from a 20-year prison sentence for mass murder. The autopsy performed… Read More

On Dec. 12, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Center for Brooklyn History (BPL-CBH) hosted a hybrid conversation with Dr. Zinga Fraser about her newly edited book, “Shirley Chisholm: In Her Own Words” (University of California Press, 2024). The book description states: “This long-overdue treatment of her work establishes Chisholm as an unparalleled public intellectual and Black… Read More