Caribbean Life News Update 16 November 2016 
40th Anniversary of Vincy Mas launched
BY NELSON A. KING | NEW YORK
A full cast of soca and calypso artists entertained an exuberant crowd Sunday evening, as officials from the Carnival Development Committee and the Ministry of Sports and Culture in St. Vincent and the Grenadines launched the 40th Anniversary of Vincy Mas in Brooklyn.
Persaud joins pols stunned by Donald Trump’s triumph
BY NELSON A. KING | NEW YORK
A Guyanese-born legislator in Brooklyn has joined the ranks of Caribbean American politicians in expressing consternation over Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the US Presidential Election last Tuesday.
World closer to ending modern slavery, agency says
BY NELSON A. KING
With an international protocol on forced labor coming into force, the United Nations labor agency, the International Labor Organization, says the world is closer in ending modern slavery.
Caribbean American pols stunned by Donald Trump’s triumph
BY NELSON KING | NATIONAL
Members of the Caribbean contingent in the city and state government say we must move forward.
UWI Vice Chancellor urges Obama to exonerate Marcus Garvey
BY NELSON A. KING
Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, has joined the global call on United States President Barack Obama to grant a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., for his 1923 mail fraud conviction in the U.S.
News from around the Caribbean
BY AZAD ALI | CARIBBEAN
Here’s this week’s round-up.
West Indies heads for Zimbabwe
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
Will take on host nation and Sri Lanka.
Rep. Clarke calls on Obama halt deportation of Haitians
BY NELSON KING | NATIONAL
Caribbean American congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke on Wednesday urged the Obama administration to immediately halt the deportation of undocumented Haitians.
Inside Life — It’s Nation Time …Again
BY VINETTE K. PRYCE
Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, has been assessing the conditions of Blacks throughout the world, and now that the marathon campaign to electing a US president has ended, the distinguished lecturer at York College will convene a State of the Black World Conference IV in Newark, N.J. from Nov. 16-20 to decide a national Black agenda.
Caricom member states at cop 22 in Marrakech, Morocco
BY TANGERINE CLARKE
Secretary-General of CARICOM States, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, a national of Dominica, is in Marrakech, Morocco, attending the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) — the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) that will run until November 18, 2016.
Coast Guard heightens repatriation of Cuban migrants
BY NELSON A. KING
More than 100 immigrants have been repatriated since October.
Sausage Party Blu-Ray Review
BY KAM WILLIAMS
Frank (Seth Rogen) finds himself frustrated sitting on a shelf at Shopwells supermarket where he’s cooped up in a shrink-wrapped package with seven other sausages. They pass their time speculating about what awaits them in “The Great Beyond,” meaning the vast unknown just past the cash register on the other side of the door.
Suriname recognized for drastically reducing malaria
BY NELSON A. KING | HEALTH
Deaths from the disease in the country have been virtually illiminated.
