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Revelers representing the Queer Caribbean Liberation Collective at the 2024 West Indian American Carnival on Eastern Parkway, Sept. 2.

People

Queer Caribbean Liberation Collective marches on Eastern Parkway demanding justice for trans lives in the Caribbean

By Tangerine Clarke

Representation of an illegal drug warehouse.

Guyana

UN warns: Crime-fighting efforts in CARICOM backfiring

By Dawn Plummer

Victor Fernandes, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Barbados to the OAS.

Barbados

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

A spirited dance sequence entertains the audience at the Annual Guyana Folk Festival fun day to end the 2024 season at Old Boys and Girls High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn

The 24th Guyana folk festival season ends with spectacular cultural presentation, cuisine and camaraderie

By Tangerine Clarke

Canadian Prime Minister Justin.

People

Trudeau pays tribute to Sir Shridath Ramphal

By Nelson A. King

GCA Award recipients holding Stick Figure statues, Proclamations from Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, and Citations from Senator Roxanne J. Persaud. From left: Errol Hazelwood, Johanna Rae George, Calvin Booker, Andy Ninvalle, Roxanne Lashley, Dr. Vibert Cambridge, Anthony Alleyne, Lorraine Croft-Farnell, and Latoya Asim.

GCA honors best and brightest in the community for their outstanding contributions

By Tangerine Clarke

Ryan Royston Linton, aka Gucci Boss during a recent performance at Lady Ira's Family Fun Day in Orange, NJ.

Music

Gucci Boss takes music world by storm, drops new release ‘Lo-Lee’

By Tangerine Clarke

Guyanese elected officials joined the Labor Day Parade on Eastern Parkway. From left Soca Monarch Adrian Dutchin, Minister Susan Rodrigues, Minister Oneidge Walron, along with Claire Patterson-Mohan, CG Michael E. Brotherson partly hidden, and Fazal Yussaff.

Carnival

Guyanese contingent illuminate folk festival, 57th carnival on Eastern Parkway

By Tangerine Clarke

Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Physical Development, Public Utilities, Civil Aviation and Transportation and Minister for National Security, Home Affairs, Public Administration, Information and Disaster Management of Grenada, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly's 78th session.

Barbados

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

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.

Carnival

Guyana government delegation to participate in Labor Day festivities in Brooklyn

By Tangerine Clarke

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Antigua

Caribbean RoundUp

By Devika Ragoonanan

Dave Matins.

Music

Legendary Guyanese musician Dave Martins passes at 90

By Tangerine Clarke

Leslie Ramsammy, the new Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presents his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Guyana

New Guyana Permanent Rep presents credentials to Director-General of UN Office in Geneva

By Nelson A. King

Rickford Burke, president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), addresses hundreds of Guyanese at a rally in Brooklyn in early 2020

Guyana

Guyanese in New York get ready to celebrate 58th Independence Anniversary

By Nelson A. King

A colorfully dressed group of Guyanese from left Sherry Williams, Claire Patterson Monah, Jenny Persaud, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Lourdeth Ferguson, Ramola Persaud, and Leon Jameson Suseran, in the foyer of Medgar Evers College, at an Emancipation Observance hosted by the diplomat office on July 31, at Medgar Evers College.

Guyana

Consulate General of Guyana emancipation observance rooted in folklore, culture, and reflection

By Tangerine Clarke

Public Relations officer of GYSBI Guyana, Gomatie Gangadin, with nationals at her table during the first Guyana Diaspora Job fair in the United States, at the Laguardia Airport Marriott.

Guyana

Guyana’s first Diaspora job fair in the US, hopes to fill 100,000 vacancies as development accelerates across the homeland

By Tangerine Clarke

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