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David Paterson: A case for better treatment for Caribbean Immigrant in New York
Tony Best
With hundreds of thousands of hard-working and law-abiding West Indians living cross the State of New York, especially in New York City, David Paterson, a former Governor thinks they deserve better treatment.
Paterson, the grandson of Caribbean immigrants – a Jamaican and a Grenadian – believes the need for ease when it comes to remitting money to their families and for travel between the island-nations, coastal states and their homes-away-from home was clear.
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Musiq Soulchild Breast Cancer Ambassador
Atlantic Records Recording Artist Musiq Soulchild announced his new role as ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure Circle of Promise, a movement designed to further engage black women around the globe in the fight against breast cancer. As an ambassador for the movement, Musiq will raise awareness about breast cancer so that younger women know the importance of early detection and why it’s important to pay attention to their bodies.
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Mavado Charged with Assault
Mavado whose real name is David Brooks is alleged to have assaulted a man and damaged his car along the Belmont main road in St. James.
Jamaican police arrested and charged the 30-year-old musical artist with assault causing bodily harm and malicious destruction of property. Mavado is to appear in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate Court on August 8, 2011. Read more...
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Montano to Spice `Reggae Rhythm and Blues'
Soca fever is expected to take over Roy Wilkins Park in Quees, NY for a few hours when Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) 2011 Soca and Road March Monarch Machel Montano HD romps on stage at the inaugural staging of "Reggae, Rhythm & Blues" concert on Labor Day Sunday, September 4th 2011.
The sizzling festival is expected to attract thousands of music lovers from from the tri-state and Canada, who will pour into the city to see performances by dancehall hotshot David Brooks aka Mavado, R&B singer Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and lover's rock crooner Tarrus Riley. Read more...
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Schomburg Commemorates Malcolm X and Romare Bearden a
By Joel Burt-Miller
Members of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, located in Harlem, and others gathered as two exhibitions opened to the public, entitled Malcolm X: A Search for Truth and Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness, which was a centennial birthday tribute to Romare Bearden.
“We made a conscious decision since we had so much original Malcolm X works, that as humans, we restrained ourselves and let Malcolm speak for himself”, stated Former Chief Director of the Schomburg Center, Howard Dodson. Read more...
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Schomburg Commemorates Malcolm X and Romare Bearden a
By Joel Burt-Miller
Members of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, located in Harlem, and others gathered as two exhibitions opened to the public, entitled Malcolm X: A Search for Truth and Romare Bearden: The Soul of Blackness, which was a centennial birthday tribute to Romare Bearden. Read more...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD
Scripture references 2 Peter 3:8 – One day is as of a thousand years and a thousand years is a day in the eyes of the Lord. . . . .
While we are waiting for God’s time to manifest in our circumstances, we are to do three things . . . . . Read more...
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THREE STEPS THROUGH FORGIVENESS
By Janice Campbell
Janice Campbell is a licensed Unity teacher, writer and speaker. She is host of the Unity Online Radio program, Receive Your Life.
How do you know when it's time to forgive? You feel it. You're constricted, angry or frustrated. You sense that someone or something is against you. It's that overall feeling of powerlessness. The feeling may come as a blast or it may have been smoldering for years. Read more...
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St Lucia mourns death of cultural icon
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government Monday expressed its condolences at the death of the former director of culture, Jacques Egyptien Compton, saying that his work “has established him not only as a giant but also an authority on the history and culture of people of African descent”.
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Dr. Donavan Thomas helps People Choose Life
By Joel Burt-Miller
Dr. Donovan A. Thomas is a former National Director of Jamaica Youth for Christ, a post he held for 14 years and he is also a past Regional Director for Youth for Christ International in the Caribbean.
After holding these positions, Dr. Thomas founded and is the President of Choose Life International, a non-profit organization registered in Jamaica in June 2008. Read more...
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Summer Swim PERSONALIZE YOUR BEACH STYLE| GUADELOUPE'S OLIVIA
Summer Swim PERSONALIZE YOUR BEACH STYLE
By Walter Greene
The biggest news in this summer's swimwear is that a personalized touch was revealed as the key element in the much anticipated Cia. Maritima collection, unveiled at South Beach, Miami's Raleigh Hotel.
GUADELOUPE'S OLIVIA
By Walter Greene
OLIVIA MEKEL is one of the dazzling new faces of fashion and beauty coming out of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
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Do You Have a Winning Idea?
Have you thought of a new product that just might catch on? Do you think your business idea could really take off if you just had a little help? If you think you have the next big idea, you could receive a grant that will help you turn that idea into a reality. Read more...
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Tips and Advice on Growing a Home-Based Business
Have you thought of a new product that just might catch on? Do you think your business idea could really take off if you just had a little help? If you think you have the next big idea, you could receive a grant that will help you turn that idea into a reality. Read more...
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Practice Makes Perfect
By Farrah Gray
NNPA Columnist
Education and training are critical, as they are the second component to “doing the knowledge.” What is required is root knowledge, not merely branch knowledge. You cannot master a subject by making a cursory glance of it. To obtain a comprehensive knowledge requires digging deep, even if you are ahead of the game because of a natural aptitude for a particular subject. There is no such thing as too much knowledge. Read more...
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Rep. Maxine Waters Wants Ethics Charges Dropped
Citing “gross misconduct”, the lawyer representing Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) is asking the House Ethics Committee to dismiss all charges against his client.
In a letter addressed to the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Republican Jo Bonner, of Alabama, and the committee’s top Democrat, Linda Sanchez, of Lakewood, Waters’ attorney Stanley Brand cited internal documents showing a close relationship between two former committee lawyers in the case and Republican committee members, saying “any further action by the committee would be “irremediably tainted and without legal foundation.” Read more...
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Republicans Have a Memory Deficit
By George E. Curry
NNPA Columnist
How did we get into this budget mess?
Republican lawmakers want you to believe it was because of the two years President Barack Obama has been in office? But it was Republicans – the professed party of fiscal responsibility – who have presided over the largest splash of red ink. Read more...
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Fake Nursing School Network Indictments
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the takedown of an elaborate criminal network that set up bogus nursing schools throughout New York City and Long Island. Hundreds of students collectively paid more than $6 million to enroll in the programs that claimed would qualify them for careers in nursing. However, the certifications and transcripts the schools provided were fraudulent.
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A financial Impasse in United States created by Right Wing Irresponsibility
Is the United States economic well-being and by extension the Caribbean’s hanging in the balance?
U.S. President Barack Obama answered the question as it relates to the United States and Winston Cox, until a year ago, Executive Director of the Caribbean – the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago – at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington responded to the latter part, the Caribbean’s fate, and what both had to say came close to an emphatic yes. Read more...
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Caricom’s new Secretary-General, Irwin Larocque, Hoping for the Best
After almost a year of a poorly conducted search for a new Secretary-General, Caricom now has a new leader of its secretariat.
He is Irwin Larocque, who was born and raised in Dominica, educated in New York at Queens College, the New School for Social Research and New York University, and for the past six years, served as the Caribbean Community’ Assistant Secretary-General for Trade and Economic integration. Read more...
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Menopause weight gain: Stop the middle age spread
By Mayo Clinic staff
Most women gain weight as they age, but excess pounds aren't inevitable. To minimize menopause weight gain, step up your activity level and enjoy a healthy diet.As you get older, you may notice that maintaining your usual weight becomes more difficult. In fact, the most profound weight gain in a woman's life tends to happen during the years leading up to menopause (perimenopause).
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PrEPing for the End Of The HIV/AIDS Epidemic
By Phill Wilson
NNPA Columnist
Now 30 years after the first AIDS case was diagnosed in America, evidence is quickly mounting that we are turning the corner and the tools that could end the HIV pandemic lay in our hands.
Recently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the results of two clinical trials involving heterosexual men and women that demonstrated for the very first time that antiretroviral (ARV) medications taken daily can dramatically reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV. Read more...
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Oped: A Point of View 07/28/11
The Song of Solomon
By Wallace Ford
The Bible may not offer all answers to all questions, but it does offer some interesting insights. This past Sunday the priest at the Catholic Church that I attend gave a sermon which referred to King Solomon and the gift of wisdom that had been granted to him. A clear illustration of that wisdom was his resolution of the dispute between two women as to who was the actual mother of a small infant. You will recall that King Solomon, after listening to the arguments of the two women claiming to be the child’s mother, offered a very simple solution – cut the baby in half. Read more...
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NY & NJ Minority Supplier Development Council Expo
The New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council honored its certified minority business owners that secured major corporate contracts and purchase orders with Mission Accomplished at its recent Business Opportunity Expo. The keynote speaker was NBA All-Star Allan Houston, assistant general manager of the New York Knicks, whose Allan Houston Legacy Foundation mentors young entrepreneurs.
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The Threat of the Plural Society
By Basil Wilson
Anders Behring Breivik’s motive for slaughtering 93 innocent lives in Norway is that immigrants were over-running the homogeneous society and the Labor Party’s government is to be blamed. So the 32 year old gunman bombed government buildings and then ventured to a youth summer camp sponsored by the Labor Party to butcher the lives of young people.
Such an event occurring in Norway is shocking as we normally associate these events with the United States. Read more...
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Floria Memorial University Wins HBCU of the Month
Florida Memorial University (FMU), South Florida’s only historically black college or university (HBCU), received national recognition when the Tom Joyner Foundation (TJF) selected it as the July 2011 HBCU of the Month. Aimed specifically at helping HBCUs, the TJF provides financial support for students to complete their college education. Read more...
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YORK COLLEGE ALUMNUS WINS FULBRIGHT
Dr. Ormond Brathwaite, a member of the York College/CUNY Class of 1982, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and will fulfill the prestigious award’s required service at Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC), in St. Lucia, assisting with the development of that college’s science curriculum in preparation for university status. Read more...
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Second Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser for Student Scholarships
On Monday, September 19, 2011, Medgar Evers College shall host its second annual Golf Tournament fundraiser from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Held at Brooklyn’s picturesque Dyker Heights Beach Golf Course, the event promises to be a rewarding opportunity to tee off for a purpose as a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the Medgar Evers College Educational Foundation to maintain student scholarships and enhance college programs. Read more...
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