Caribbean Life News Update – September 9, 2016
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Miss World Guyana takes NY by storm
BY TANGERINE CLARKE | ENTERTAINMENT
Miss World Guyana 2016, Nuriyyih Girrard said she is still savoring the experience of flying First Class for the first time, and thanked Fly Jamaica Airways, for her safe voyage to the Big Apple, for a weekend of meet and greet, before preparing for the Dec. 20, Miss World Pageant in Washington, DC.
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON | ARTS & THEATER
The 49th annual West Indian American day carnival brightened up Eastern Parkway on Monday, celebrating Caribbean heritage. Despite earlier incidents of violence at the pre-dawn parade just hours before, thousands packed the parade route in Crown Heights dancing and waving, even babies said one Flatbush dad.
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON | ARTS & THEATER
This year’s J’Ouvert parade cost the lives of two innocent bystanders and injured four more, but the lively spirit of many parade-goers helped them enjoy the annual pre-dawn celebration.
Young pannists take stage at steel pan contest
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON | MUSIC & FASHION
Steel bands from all over Brooklyn competed for the title of the best steel pan group at the Panorama Steel Pan competition at the Brooklyn Museum on Sept. 3.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | SPORTS
Matt Besler got back to the U.S. team hotel after training on the eve of the United States’ World Cup qualifier at St. Vincent and the Grenadines when his cellphone came to life.
Young talent preps for school with concert
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON | NEW YORK
Local kids closed out summer showcasing their talents one last time before school starts.
BY BERT WILKINSON | CARIBBEAN
Trinidad’s governing People’s National Movement (PNM) marked its first year in office on Wednesday with voters showing some tolerance for Prime Minister Keith Rowley personally but going hard on authorities for their inability to reduce a spiraling murder rate, improve the performance of the economy and reduce state corruption which was made an art form by the previous government.
Vincentians ‘jump for education’
BY NELSON A. KING | ARTS & THEATER
It has been years since a Vincentian float participated in the gigantic, annual West Indian American Carnival Parade on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway.
Remembering the victims of September 11
BY DAWN PLUMMER
The brave ones, whose fate ended in a catastrophe on Sept. 11, 2001 in America, continue to rekindle the strength and the determination of some, to never forget the calamities of that fateful day.
Another picture perfect carnival
BY NELSON A. KING | ARTS & THEATER
For at least the second successive year, revelers, masqueraders and millions of spectators enjoyed the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade in picture perfect weather on Brooklyn’s sprawling Eastern Parkway.
Bolt gets lifetime Digicel contract
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
Telecommunications provider Digicel has given Jamaican sprint king Usain Bolt a lifetime a contract on the heels of his historic accomplishments at the recently concluded Rio Olympics in Brazil.
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
The University of the West Indies (UWI) Soil Science Department is assisting in the investigation regarding the recent abandonment of the fourth Test between West Indies and India at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain Trinidad.
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
West Indies will play their first day-night Test against Pakistan in the United Araba States later this month.
When the lives of two stars intersect
BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | BOOKS
Your closest friend really gets you.
You never have to explain yourself when you’re together; everything said (and unsaid) is understood. There may be many years between you, but it doesn’t matter. There may be differences in background, but no worries. Nothing keeps you apart, and in the new book “Elizabeth and Michael” by Donald Bogle, that might be because you have everything in common.
Diversity highlights 2016 Labor Day celebrations
BY VINETTE K. PRYCE | ARTS & THEATER
Undoubtedly the 2016 West Indian American Day Carnival Association’s presentations reflected unprecedented diversity and perhaps a commitment to integrate a wider pool of participants unseen in 49 years.
