wiadca Archives – Caribbean Life

Masqueraders from Sherzel Productions' "Kaleidoscope of Colors.”

Carnival

Band of the year

By Nelson A. King

WIADCA President Roger Archibald, Esq., addresses Panorama on Saturday night.

Carnival

Adams, WIADCA condemn shooting at massive Caribbean Carnival Parade

By Nelson A. King

Revelers dressed in costumes ready to revel with NOMADS Costume band on Labor Day, presented by band leader Marlon Jacobs in collaboration with a Guyana Government delegation from Georgetown.

Guyana

Guyana government delegation to participate in Labor Day festivities in Brooklyn

By Tangerine Clarke

New WIADCA Chairman Andrew Maloney, Esq., center, with Board members.

Carnival

WIADCA launches 57th Caribbean Carnival with ‘The Evolution’

By Nelson A. King

Roger Victor Archibald, WIADCA’s new president.

Carnival

WIADCA appoints prominent Trinidadian-born lawyer new prez

By Nelson A. King

Guyanese-born Melnia Cordis, pictured at her practice CordisLaw PC, 440 E 53rd St., Brooklyn. The brilliant, hardworking legal eagle, is an internationally trained attorney who maintains a prominent presence in the Guyanese and Caribbean community.

People

Trailblazer Melnia Cordis raising the bar for efficacious services at CordisLaw PC

By Tangerine Clarke

Michael Roger Young Lao dead at 73.

People

Caribbean ‘cultural warrior’ Michael Roger Young Lao passes at 73

By Nelson A. King

WIADCA board member, Rhea Smith.

Trinidad & Tobago

New ‘Culture Fit’ collab for T&T Carnival

By Nelson A. King

Sen. Chuck Schumer, with megaphone, with supporters on the Parkway.

Carnival

Who’s who in NY politics participate in Carnival Parade

By Nelson A. King

Ghanaian band Wazumbians jams "Happy Yo' Self" on Labor Day Caribbean Carnival spectacularly kick off.

Brooklyn

WIADCA boasts live TV broadcast, ‘esteemed’ Grand Marshals for New York Carnival Week 2023

By Nelson A. King

Derek Ventour, center, with Michelle Quamina, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, Council Member Crystal Hudson and family members with replica of Joyce Quamina's Way street sign.

Trinidad & Tobago

Street in Crown Heights co-named after ‘Carnival Queen’ Joyce Quamina

By Nelson A. King

Volunteers of the WIADCA join Assemblywoman Monique Chandler-Waterman, fifth from left, Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke and WIADCA Chair Michelle Gibbs, extreme right to celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month on Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza, June 24.

News

BP Antonio Reynoso, WIADCA celebrate Caribbean Heritage Month in colorful splendor

By Tangerine Clarke

Rep.Stacey E.Plaskett (VI).

Carnival

USVI Congresswoman’s Grand Marshal for Carnival Parade

By Nelson A. King

From left, Commissioner Manuel Castro, MayorÕs Office of Immigrant Affairs, legendary calypsonian Lord Nelson, CG J. Andre Laveau, Mayor Eric L. Adams, Hazra Ali, partly hidden, Edward Mermelstein, MayorÕs Office of International Affairs, and Ambassador to the US, Anthony Phillips Spencer, at the T&T Golden Jubilee flag raising at Bowling Green in NYC.

Trinidad & Tobago

Mayor Adams raises flag, proclaim Aug. 31, T&T Heritage Day in NY

By Tangerine Clarke

Masqueraders before the speeches began at the launch of NY Caribbean Carnival 2022.

Carnival

Spectacular launch of NY Caribbean Carnival 2022 in-person

By Nelson A. King

Guyanese American Sherif Barker, newest committee member of WIADCA, poses with Guyana's Golden Arrowhead flag against the 2022 Carnival backdrop, at the recent kick-off at Kings Theatre, on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.

Guyana

Guyanese American Sherif Barker is WIADCA’s newest committee member

By Tangerine Clarke

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