According to Ghana’s Diaspora Affairs Office, approximately 1,500 African Americans settled in the West African country since 2019. That year marked “The Year of Return” initiated by Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo, inviting people of African descent from around the world to come home. These new arrivals added to the estimated 5,000 African Americans and 4,000 Jamaicans who settled in the country in recent decades. Jamaican-born Rique Kofi Ennis is one of them.
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Agreeing to ‘cool things down’, Guyana President Irfaan Ali and President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro signed a declaration on December 14, 2023 affirming that:
Are you still looking for the perfect last minute gift for friends and loved ones this holiday season? If so, caribBEING’s 7th annual holiday pop shop has exactly what you need. Located right in the heart of the Flatbush neighborhood, “Little Caribbean”, in Brooklyn, New York, this beautifully decorated storefront space boasts a plethora of products from over 25 different Caribbean & Caribbean-American owned businesses including bath & body care, clothing, books, art prints, jewelry, pastries including rum cake, pepper sauces, candles and home goods. Each item has been meticulously chosen by caribBEING’s co-founders Shelley Worrel and Janluck Stanislas as well as their dedicated staff to represent all aspects of Caribbean culture.
History was made on November 29th 2023 when the Brooklyn Children’s Museum announced the appointment of Atiba T. Edwards, a native of St. Vincent, as their new President and Chief Executive Officer. Edwards previously served as the museum’s Chief Operating Officer before becoming its 12th president and the first black man to hold the position in its nearly 125-year history. Edwards took over as acting president and CEO in mid-August, when former leader Stephanie Hill Wilchfort departed the museum.
WASHINGTON, DC - Co-founder of Jamaica’s legendary Third World Band, now celebrating 50 years, Mr. Stephen (Cat)Coore, was among eleven members of the Caribbean Diaspora to be recognized last Friday by the Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) for outstanding achievement in various fields.
A native of wintry Alberta, Canada, Nicole Landry has always found it amusing that her Jamaican father left a tropical country to settle in one of North America’s coldest regions.
Toronto - Caribbean integration is at the heart of Jael Joseph’s mission to influence the world through media. With her Jael Joseph LIVE interview series, she aims to bring together viewers from around the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, allowing them to engage and connect with guests from the Regions’ various territories.
The Bravo Family Foundation, led by founder and chairman Orlando Bravo, has become the lifeblood of Puerto Rico’s emerging businesses. The Foundation is a business acceleration initiative aimed at fostering the growth of high-potential technology and innovation start-ups with capital, mentorship, and a world-class curriculum. Bravo looks for potential, creativity, and ingenuity and rewards startups, emerging, and established companies seeking to go to the next level with solid strategic business advice.
According to the World Health Organization, “In 2020, there were 2.3 million women diagnosed with breast cancer and 685,000 deaths globally. As of the end of 2020, there were 7.8 million women alive who were diagnosed with breast cancer in the past 5 years, making it the world’s most prevalent cancer… Approximately 0.5-1% of breast cancers occur in men.”
An avid reader, a lover of Caribbean literature, Trinidad and Tobago-born and raised Marsha Massiah, brought her passion for the stories of the region with her when she migrated to the United States. These stories served as her voice, helping to ground her in this new environment called Brooklyn, New York.
A voice for Caribbean health professionals in the United Kingdom, the Caribbean Nurses & Midwives Association UK (CNMA) officially started in January 2021. Marsha Jones, Maurina Baron, Jacqueline Gabriel-King, and Paulette Lewis, MBE came together with one purpose — driving change to improvement of health & social care, education, workforce and policy development for the nurses and midwives from the Caribbean coming into the National Health Service (NHS) system.
The bass line reverberates off the walls in the low-lit room. The music blares from the large speakers positioned at the corners of the ceiling. The wide glass doors to the balcony are flung wide open to let in some cool breeze. The crowd sways almost in unison to the sweet sounds of roots reggae music.
August 10, 2023 will be an indelible memory for Keisha Schahaff. That was the day she flew into space. She saw the earth from suborbital space on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity (Galactic 02) space craft. Accompanied by her 18 year-old daughter Anastasia Mayers, together they became the first female astronauts from the Caribbean and the first mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean to take that epic journey into the heavens.
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