Il 17 maggio si avvicina e con esso la celebrazione della Giornata della Ristorazione, un evento che ogni anno richiama l’attenzione sull’importanza dell’ospitalità e della condivisione. In preparazione a questa data, Torino inizia a vivere il clima di questa iniziativa attraverso attività che coinvolgono scuole, istituzioni e operatori del settore. La Giornata della Ristorazione non… Read More

Sen. Zellnor Myrie (D-Central Brooklyn) on Monday joined elected colleagues in supporting the inclusion of funding for the Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP) in this year’s State budget. Last week, gun violence prevention groups learned that the Trump administration had abruptly canceled hundreds of millions in previously approved grants that support victims and survivors… Read More

Last week, I went back to Bayside High School in Queens to deliver the Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget — the Best Budget Ever — in the same place I attended high school. My message was simple: this budget is not some abstract set of numbers; it is a statement about what we value and… Read More

La Città di Torino prosegue e rafforza l’impegno a tutela delle persone senza dimora e in condizione di grave marginalità. Con una delibera approvata questa mattina dalla Giunta comunale, su proposta dell’assessore alle Politiche sociali Jacopo Rosatelli e co-firmata dagli assessori alla Sicurezza e Polizia Locale Marco Porcedda e alla Protezione civile Francesco Tresso, viene confermata… Read More

Antigua and Barbuda In collaboration with regional partners, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda hosted a three-day Environmental Sustainability Exhibition at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Five Islands Campus. The exhibition was held alongside the 118th Special Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) on Environment and Sustainable Development and… Read More

After two weather-related delays, the spirit of Easter finally arrived at Canarsie Park as families and children gathered for Sen. Roxanne Persaud’s annual Easter Egg Hunt. Persaud is the Guyanese-born representative for the 19th Senate District in Brooklyn. Marie Christine Delius, Persaud’s communications coordinator, told Caribbean Life on Tuesday that the event, initially postponed due… Read More

Global sprinting icon Usain Bolt buried his father Wellesley in Jamaica on Sunday, telling his mom that he would take care of her for the rest of his life. At the same time, the Jamaican government finally designated him as a national hero and asset. “I just want to say to my mommy, ‘Mom, I’m… Read More

“By any means necessary”… El Hajj Malik Shabazz Malcolm X did not derive the idiom “the chickens have come home to roost.” That assured statement is attributed to an idea by Robert Southey in 1809, and one ,which has been assigned to the feathered friends’ “behavior of perching on an elevated surface to sleep” as… Read More

More than 500 former residents, relatives, people with disabilities, advocates, officials and others marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of a document that led to the closure of the infamous Willowbrook State School and ushered in a new era. They gathered on Friday, May 2 at the College of Staten Island — built on… Read More

Oggi pomeriggio nel giardino della Scuola dell’Infanzia Aporti Gastaldi è stato inaugurato ufficialmente il Festival del Verde. I bambini della scuola – insieme all’assessore Francesco Tresso e agli organizzatori del Festival – hanno seppellito nel giardino una “capsula del tempo” e messo a dimora un giovane ciliegio: un gesto simbolico per dare inizio alla terza… Read More