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PROFILE OF THE YEAR By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine He is a proven leader that can run organizations. He is an entrepreneur and a businessman. He is smart and bright, a mechanical and civil engineer and he is the owner of the Jamaica Tallawahs, one of the biggest franchises in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). Krishna (Kris) Persaud is a young man...

By Albert Baldeo Pele, born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is to football (soccer), as Muhammad Ali is to boxing, Mario Andretti to motor sports, Tom Brady to American Football, Neil Armstrong to space, Patton to WW2, Albert Einstein to physics, Michael Jordan to basketball, Gary Sobers to cricket, Tiger Woods to golf, Usain Bolt to sprinting, Serena Williams to lawn...

The memory of meeting Pele is enshrined in my subconscious: His feats on the field were only surpassed by his humanity off it. ONDRIVE with Sham Samaroo January 1, 2023 On Thursday, December 29, football lost its greatest and most admired icon – Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, affectionately known worldwide as Pele. He was 82. Everyone knows of Pele’s astonishing feats –...

ONDRIVE with Sham Samaroo December 20, 2022 Each December, Christians around the world celebrate the birth of the King of Kings in a manger in Bethlehem. This December, not very far away in Qatar, Lionel Andrés Messi, a catholic, was crowned the king of soccer (football) in an atmosphere befitting a coronation: the most thrilling of World Cup finals. On soccer’s...

By Dr Tara Singh The relentless attack by PNCites on the Guyana PPPC government for allegations of perceived race discrimination is employment, contract awards, and in other areas of public life, is negatively affecting the country’s development and defacing the growth of a robust economy. To rationalize critics’ position they draw upon fabricated information. In this process they have launched a...

QUEENS, NY -- Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jason Bical was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for aggravated vehicular manslaughter after pleading guilty last month to striking and killing 63-year-old motorist Taher Ali Hassan on the Belt Parkway while under the influence of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol in December 2020. District Attorney Katz said: “This...

The Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club Holiday Lights on Liberty Ave from 133rd Street to Lefferts Blvd & On Lefferts Blvd from Rockaway Blvd to 150th Ave. The RHSOP Lions Club would like to thank their Sponsors: Sybil’s Bakery, Hacks Halal, Elevate Lounge, Impulse Lounge NYC, Hookah & Smoke, All Purpose Electric, Addabbo & Greenberg, Key Food 135...

COMMENTARY By Dr Dhanpaul Narine Can one person really make a difference? Can an individual change the world by using power to do good? We hear the wonderful words of inspiration from some of the leading thinkers of our time and we are imbued with the notion that we can lift mountains if we put our minds to it. It...

NEW YORK (November 17, 2022) -- Travelspan and Amral’s Travel TnT are thrilled to announce Sint Maarten as the destination for its 3rd Annual Duck Cooking Competition, which is being held from July 27 to July 31, 2023. Guests will be converging on the island from the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana for an...