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Trinidad woman begs for Jamaican husband
(Trinidad Express) One of the Trinidadians employed with Disney Cruise Line is calling on Minister of National Security Stuart Young to reunite her family after she was allowed to return home yesterday but her husband was
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Opinion | I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out.
The only colors that penetrate those dark memories are the blue and red lights of police vehicles parked on every other street corner, swirling all night
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CCJ issues order to Guyana Elections Commission
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday afternoon issued an order requiring the Guyana Elections Commission and its officers and agents to take no step to prejudice the fair hearing of an application made to the court by Mohammed Irfaan Ali and Bharrat
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Death of Trinidad Prime Minister
Death of Eric Williams (79), Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, in Port of Spain. Dr. Williams was also a historian and the author of the classic work, Capitalism and Slavery.
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African diaspora in the Americas
The African diaspora in the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas with predominantly African ancestry. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from Africa to the Americas by Europeans, to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves, between
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Trinidad woman with COVID-19 flies home from Venezuela
(Trinidad Express) A 63-year-old Trinidad and Tobago national tested positive for Covid-19 virus prior to boarding the aircraft in Venezuela to return
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Governor-general of Jamaica suspends personal use of 200-year-old insignia due to racism
Nii Ntreh is interested in academic philosophy with specific attention to moral, social and political
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Caribbean social justice NGOs emphasise right to free and fair elections here - Stabroek News
A group of Caribbean NGOs have iterated their support for Guyanese to enjoy a free, fair and democratic system of election that expresses the will of the people and have also posited the need for a more inclusionary process of government going
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On February 3, 2013, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced the ruling partys nomination of Anthony Carmona to succeed President George Maxwell Richards. The Opposition Peoples National Movement (PNM) party also supported the nomination, but questioned Carmonas eligibility since he left
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Kiratiana’s Guide to Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival
Many think Rio de Janeiro only has an elaborate Samba school parade every year that features half-naked
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Trinidad: Sister, boyfriend charged with Geeta's murder
(Trinidad Express) A 52-year-old woman and her 46-year-old boyfriend have been charged with the murder of her sister, Geeta
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Skinner, Elliot Percival (1924-2007) - Birthday
Skinner was born on June 20, 1924 in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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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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Trinidad dancehall artiste gunned down, mother pleads for no retaliation - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) One of Trinidad and Tobago’s local dancehall artistes, Kyle “Rebel Sixx” George, 26, was ambushed and killed in his home at Bon Air, Arouca, on Sunday night. The article Trinidad dancehall artiste gunned down, mother pleads for no retaliation appeared first on Stabroek News.
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CARICOM, the Caribbean Community Organization
Many countries located in the Caribbean Sea are members of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, an organization founded in 1973 to make these several small countries more cooperative, economically competitive, and influential in global politics. Headquartered in Georgetown, Guyana, CARICOM has
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300 Trinidadians stuck on cruise ship off Barbados
(Trinidad Guardian) National Security Minister Stuart Young says over 300 nationals stuck on a ship off Barbados will be allowed to come home if the cruise ship company agrees to quarantine them at sea off Trinidad and
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Jamaican writer wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Caribbean | New York Carib News
Jamaican writer wins Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Caribbean
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Africa: Build Back Better: Women at the Centre of Decision-Making
At the same time, women are on the front lines of response, as heads of state and government, legislators, healthcare workers, carers at home and community leaders and mobilisers, amongst other
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Earth Today | Civil society delivers 30 priorities for accelerating climate action
Civil society actors in Trinidad and Tobago are urging accelerated action on climate change for sustainable development and COVID-19 recovery, with 30 priorities delivered as part of the newly launched report, Spotlight on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 Climate
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After long wait, J'cans stranded in C'bean to be repatriated
CARIBBEAN Airlines will, as of this weekend, be operating flights for Jamaicans stranded in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, The Bahamas, and Antigua and Barbuda, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has
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25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Black History Studies
Marcus Garvey worked at the offices of the African Times and Orient Review journal under the leadership of Duse Mohammed Ali, the famous Black nationalist and
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CWI finances in ICU Skerritt | New York Carib News
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The financial health of Cricket West Indies (CWI) has been described by its president, Ricky Skerritt, as being in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prevented competition in the
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The Black Revolution on Campus
Scholar Martha Biondi examines the impact of the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s on academia and colleges, including the establishment of Black Studies at universities. This program was recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN
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Artist Of The Week | Florida Sentinel Bulletin
Artist Of The WeekTRINI BOI   BY TALK TO ‘EM DA DON     This week, the Artist Of The Week comes from Trinidad and Tobago. Raised in Sulphur Springs, in the early 90s Trini Boi brings a different sound of Hip Hip.
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Shirley optimistic about Dolla Financial's purpose
It may even seem like a minor job for the elder statesman of finance, former executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, and top executive of leading Jamaica financial institution, National Commercial Bank for 35 years, yet it is anything but
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Trinidad nationals stuck in Canada again beg to come home
I tell them Trinidad owns an airline and the Government can very easily fly us home without opening borders,” Bayne said
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Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator: An Appreciation in Guyanese-Diasporic-Quarantine
The announcement Tuesday morning (May 19th) that Kaie Kellough had won Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize—one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world—for his mesmerizing poetry collection, Magnetic Equator —marks an historical moment in the literary histories of diasporic Guyanese and
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Young mother shot dead in Trinidad
(Trinidad Express) A young mother was killed in Diego martin on Thursday night. The deceased has been identified as Reanna Gordon, of Farfalla Drive, Signature Park, Arima. The vehicle was parked along Julien Park, Diego Martin.
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caribbean integration
This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the
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