By Aminta Kilawan Narine, Esq.
On June 26, 2018, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district, defeating incumbent Joe Crowley, Democratic Caucus Chair.
The 14th district includes parts of the Bronx and parts of Queens. The Queens portion includes the neighborhoods of Astoria, College Point, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and Woodside. The Bronx portion of...
PROFILE OF THE WEEK
By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Sandhya Sugrim won a bunch of awards at a recent event in Brooklyn. It was a fitting recognition for her years of hard work and dedication to her profession and her community. It was also a testimony to her discipline, as she had to overcome many challenges on her road to success. Today,...
By Dr. Ashford Maharaj
Trinidadians and Tobagonians, USA has once again in 2018 delivered yet another family day at Smokey Park right here in in the heart of the Caribbean community, Richmond Hill, Queens, New York on Sunday August 12th. This time however, and as compared to 2016 we got two for the price of one in that it was...
‘Cash Transfers’ From Oil Revenues May Restore Their Political Viability!
COMMENTARY
By Dr. TARA SINGH
Well known WPA (Working People’s Alliance) executive member and political commentator David Hinds is working feverishly to make Clive Thomas’ idea of “cash transfers” to Guyanese households, payable from net oil revenues, a reality. Hinds has cited reports from Latin America and the Caribbean where cash...
COMMENTARY
BY DR. DHANPAUL NARINE
The architecture of the poor is crumbling. On the tables of the rich are delicacies from everywhere. The scraps are thrown to the poor. In the ocean of plenty the majority are rudderless. Pope Francis says that inequality is a social evil. The United Nations calls it the paradox of our times. Its Millennium Development...
Award-winning Guyanese Artist Compton Babb Speaks About his Journey
By Mohamed Alim Hassim
"There are those who are born with a natural ability or talent and there are those who willed themselves or try to learn a particular trade, technique or skills... For me, I think I am blessed with a talent."
Those are the sentiments of Compton Babb Jr, a 36-year-old...
Honorary Doctors of Law (UWI) to be awarded West Indian Test cricketer
By Albert Baldeo
Guyanese cricket legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a former captain of the West Indies team, will be awarded the Honorary Doctors of Law later this year by my alma mater, the University of the West Indies (UWI). It is a deserving appreciation for an unsung hero who was...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – President of the Oilfield Workers Union (OWTU), Ancel Roget, Tuesday accused Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley of seeking to "change the conversation" over the situation regarding the state of the local economy as well as the plans to reform the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN.
“He is in a job for which clearly the country recognises...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Education Minister Nicolette Henry says she plans to meet with officials of the Guyana Trade Union (GTU) to discuss unresolved issues after the union earlier this week said it had instructed its members to embark upon industrial action from August 27.
Henry said that the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the GTU had agreed to another round...
By Dr. Vishnu Bisram
Indo-Trinidadian Vidiadhar Surujprasad Naipaul has written extensively commenting on societies in his travelogues. His scholarship has touched every corner of the globe. He is a legend, world renown, perhaps the best writer in the English language with his writings prescribed for literature in virtually every university.
There is hardly a “schooled” person in the Indian diaspora who...
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