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Friends and Former Media Colleagues React to Death of Beloved Sports Journalist Roger B. Brown

As news hit on May 18th that legendary DFW sports journalist Roger B. Brown passed away days after his 61st birthday, many of his friends and former media colleagues took to social media to express their feelings about the beloved “Roger

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TKR to ramp up CPL preparations

Manager of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) Colin Borde said the local players will ramp up preparations for the 2020 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) as the government starts to relax covid19

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World leaders, stars unite at event aimed at fighting virus

LONDON (AP) — A summit that included a star-studded virtual concert hosted by Dwayne Johnson has raised nearly $7 billion in cash and loan guarantees to assist the poor around the globe whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus

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Confident Shepherd ready for CPL 2020

West Indies fast-bowling all-rounder, Romario Shepherd, is brimming with confidence heading into the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 competition with an eye on a spot in the T20 World

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Sir Everton Weekes dies

The only surviving member of the storied Three Ws and the third oldest surviving men’s Test player, Sir Everton passed away in his native Barbados at age 95 following a long

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`The truth hurts’ – Mottley says in reply to Guyanese critics

“…we must ask – on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Elections Officer determine that he should invalidate 1 vote, far less over 115 000 votes when the votes were already certified as valid by officers of the Guyana Elections Commission in the presence of the political

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Caribbean destinations at odds over region’s tourism reopening

A release from the CARICOM Secretariat following the talks said the leaders recognised “the need for a common protocol for the reopening of regional airports to flights from selected third countries and the reopening of

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Guyana PM disappointed with Caricom's statement on elections | New York Carib News

Guyana PM disappointed with Caricom’s statement on elections

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Africa: 'I Cannot Breathe' - 60 Black Former U.S. Ambassadors Condemn Ongoing Injustice

The Association of Black American Ambassadors (ABAA) joins the nation and people of conscience around the world, in mourning the brutal deaths of George Floyd, Ahmed Arbery, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black

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Caribbean islands will need to be treated differently after COVID-19

Limited resources and economic diversification in Eastern Caribbean countries, compounded by their small size and remoteness, constrain

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Friends and Former Media Colleagues React to Death of Beloved Sports Journalist Roger B. Brown

As news hit on May 18th that legendary DFW sports journalist Roger B. Brown passed away days after his 61st birthday, many of his friends and former media colleagues took to social media to express their feelings about the beloved “Roger

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Sunday Brew — May 17, 2020

My attention was drawn to a news release supposedly issued by Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson last Tuesday regarding the robbery of care packages in Enfield, St Mary, last

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Saddler, Joseph/Grandmaster Flash (1958 - )

Although he will more than likely be remembered best for releasing “The Message,” the first rap song to delve into social commentary about the plight of African Americans in the inner-city, Grandmaster Flash was also the original technological virtuoso of the early hip-hop movement to

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(1879) John Mercer Langston, “The Exodus: The Causes Which Led The Colored People of the South to Leave Their Homes – The Lesson

? In 1879 an unanticipated migration of nearly seven thousand African Americans from Mississippi and Louisiana to Kansas prompted a debate among national black leaders. Frederick Douglass thought it unwise that black women and men would leave the South. John Mercer Langston disagreed. As in this

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Suggestion made for more groups to look out for sexual harassment

ONE of the suggestions being made to improve the Sexual Harassment Bill is widening the scope of people who have a duty of care to address complaints of sexual harassment, including the crew of public transportation such as the State-run Jamaica Urban Transit Company

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Relief for furloughed J’can workers in South Florida

Jamaican and other Caribbean workers employed to non-essential retail chains in South Florida are breathing a collective sigh of relief after a number of stores at which they work reopened their doors after weeks of closure due to the

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Barbados Demonstrators Show Solidarity with Black Lives Matter Movement

A small group of protesters voiced their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and for other matters on Saturday when they converged in front of the United States Embassy in Barbados.

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UWI Caribbean students feel trapped, abandoned in Ja

Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the

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History of the Caribbean

The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role the region played in the colonial struggles of the European powers since the 15th century. In the 20th century the Caribbean was again important during World War II, in the decolonization wave during the post-war period, and in the tension

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St Lucia to lift curfew on Friday

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jul 7, CMC – The St Lucia government says it will on Friday lift the curfew that had been imposed as part of the measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Prime Minister Allen Chastanet...

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The Church of St. Mark, Brooklyn, New York (1838- )

The Church of St. Mark in Brooklyn, New York was originally established by a group of black Episcopalians in 1838. The next year, Dr. Samuel M. Haskins was asked to be rector (pastor), the role he would maintain for 60 years. By April 1841 the congregation completed a Gothic style edifice in

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Everton de Courcy Weekes - Stabroek News

Last Wednesday, the life innings of the oldest surviving West Indian Test cricketer, Everton Weekes came to an end. The article Everton de Courcy Weekes appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Guyana to benefit from IDB COVID-19 grant to region

The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has received a grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to help in the response to the (COVID-19 pandemic and Guyana will be among the

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Lloyd says concentration needed to beat England

Former World Cup-winning West Indies skipper, Clive Lloyd, said that the the batsmen will need to focus for long periods if they are to beat England at home in the upcoming three-Test

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Legendary 3W Sir Everton dies

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary former West Indies batsman Sir Everton Weekes, the last surviving member of the distinguished Three Ws, died here yesterday following a long

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Caribbean countries renew disaster risk insurance policies

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (CMC) —The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF SPC) says its member governments in the Caribbean have all renewed their parametric insurance coverage for tropical cyclone, excess rainfall, earthquake and fisheries in light of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane

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CARICOM dismayed at new developments in Guyana | New York Carib News

She added further that Caricom “is concerned at reports that the chief elections officer has submitted a report to the Guyana Elections Commission [GECOM] which is contrary to the directions given by the commission, and which does not reflect the results of the recount process as certified by the

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Global leadership and the search for a vaccine

It said that the voluntary pooling of patents in response to the pandemic needed to be ‘be narrowly tailored in scope and duration to the medical needs of the current crisis’, raising uncertainty about how the US intends to respond if it is the first nation with a viable

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