Archive – Caribbean Life

Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri brief the media regarding the crime statistics for September 2025 and the third quarter.

AMNY

Op-Ed | Seven straight quarters of crime reduction: Safer streets, subways, and communities

Kenya's President William Ruto addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 24, 2025.

Barbados

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Guest Perspective

Community Op-Ed: Seven straight quarters of crime reduction: Safer streets, subways, and communities

By Mayor Eric Adams

Classic Caribbean Butternut Squash With Shrimp recipe.

Caribbean recipes

Classic Caribbean Butternut Squash With Shrimp

By Chris De La Rosa

Dheeraj Khurana, MD, has been appointed Chief of Cardiology at Episcopal Health Services.

Health

Episcopal Health Services appoints cardiology chief

By Staff

Book cover of “A THousand Ways To Die” by Trymaine Lee.

Books

The real cost of a gun

By Terri Schlichenmeyer

Azruddin Mohamed, 38, of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) political party in Guyana.

Guyana

Incoming opposition leader indicted in US

By Bert Wilkinson

Adjunct Professor of Caribbean Studies, SUNY, Martin P. Felix.

News

Grenadian scholar renews call for Slave Trade reparations

By Nelson A. King

President of the Transitional Presidential Council of the Republic of Haiti, Anthony Franck Laurent Saint-Cyr, addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., Sept. 25, 2025.

Haiti

CARICOM elated at the UN resolution on Haiti

By Bert Wilkinson

Gloria Lewis holds netball, flanked by former netballers and a coach, far left.

Sports

Caribbean netball legend Gloria Lewis celebrated in Brooklyn at 90

By Nelson A. King

A group of people dressed in Halloween costumes walking down a street with one of them playing a violin.

News

Aside from Halloween — scary days ahead

By Vinette K. Pryce

Self-portrait of Goodwood, Tobago native Shurla Alleyne Tyler, who has lived in Brooklyn for more than a decade.

Trinidad & Tobago

Brooklyn neighbor spreads hope through essential giving

By Milette Millington

Trinidadian nursing educator Dr. Hazel Mary Sanderson Marcoux, Ed.D., RN, delivers keynote address.

Health

Trinidadian nursing educator wants nurses to build strong legacies

By Nelson A. King

Patrons enjoy brunch at CZEN Restaurant in Brooklyn, where the menu fuses Caribbean classics like jerk chicken with Asian-inspired dishes.

Business

Brooklyn Restaurant CZEN blends Caribbean and Asian flavors, eyes expansion

By Tracey Khan

First Lady of Guyana Arya Ali, President Dr. Mohomed Irfaan Ali, on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, with NYS Senator Roxanne J. Persaud, at a Meet & Greet on Sept. 23, where the Head-of-state, addressed compatriots in the ballroom of Russo on the Bay in Howard Beach, Queens.

Guyana

Guyana’s president draws rousing applause in Queens Meet-and-Greet

By Tangerine Clarke

Rev. Lawrence Craig, third from left; Pastor the Rev. Roger Jackson, fourth from left; First Lady, Sis. Kim Jackson, fifth from left; Sis. Herline Florival, organist; and some members of FSUMC Men's Group after Worship Service.

News

FSUMC hosts successful ‘Men’s Day’

By Nelson A. King

More from Around NYC

armory

Lawmakers press for neighborhood protections at Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment hearing

little boy

Little boy found at Far Rockaway laundromat without adult supervision: NYPD

Mineola

Editorial: Mineola School District program raises uncomfortable questions

National Guard member with long gun

Adams admin lends support to Oregon’s suit seeking to block Trump from sending federal troops to Portland