By Leo Gilling
At 11:55 pm on August 5, 1962, darkness engulfed the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. There was a quiet. And later a roar of the capacity filled stadium at 12:01 am August 6, 1962; Indicating the end of the flight of the Union Jack and a new beginning, a newly independent nation, new colors representing […]
By O. St. E. Mackie Holder
The staff of Team Barbados: Consular, BTMI and Invest Barbados, at the Barbados Consulate General of Barbados at New York and Barbadian Associations under the jurisdiction of the Consulate join fellow Barbadians and Caribbean citizens the world over in mourning the loss of Barbados’ fifth Prime Minister. On behalf of all, it is with great […]
BY RACHEL HOLLIDAY SMITH (thecity) Federal funds for COVID-19 business relief were depleted at one point, but now there’s more money than businesses getting it. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, $128 billion was left to lend in the Paycheck Protection Program as of Wednesday evening, with just over a week left for businesses to apply in […]
A Union soldier stands with African Americans on the plantation Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1862. Photo by Henry P. Moore, May 1862. By Eric Kyere (The Conversation) Some critics of Black Lives Matter say the movement itself is racist. Their frequent counterargument: All lives matter. Lost in that view, however, is […]