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WASHINGTON, DC (April 20, 2008) – A unique partnership of internationally focused development, faith and women’s organizations announced it had raised a billion dollars for investing in women and girls around the world as a key strategy for ending global poverty.

The word on the streets of Brooklyn is that New Yorkers are looking forward to the special “Spring Fun Raising Party,” which will be happening from 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, 2008, at Spice Island Haven, 1169 Nostrand Avenue, between Fenimore Street and Ruthland  Road in Brooklyn.

NEW YORK (April 19, 2008) – Who knew that for a third successive week I would be writing another article about the strategic importance of the Caribbean Diaspora to tourism promotion efforts?

NEW YORK (April 12, 2008) – Last week’s article on the importance of courting the intellectual and financial capital of the Caribbean Diaspora has provoked some important responses and proposals from members of the Caribbean community and the Diaspora about the wisdom of engaging an upwardly mobile and influential market […]

The weeks ahead look gloomy for the nearly 40,000 investors of Cash Plus Limited as it now appears that its embattled head, Carlos Hill, might have lied about the number of assets he claimed the company owned.

The Haitian Senate has voted to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis following widespread rioting earlier this week over soaring food prices.

Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of serious and organized crime, Les Green yesterday made an appeal for persons having information in relation to any assets or property linked to the troubled Cash Plus Limited investment scheme to come forward and assist in the ongoing investigation into allegations of fraud […]

Brooklyn’s newest number 1entertainment spot, Total Eclipse Sports Bar & Grill, located at 8920 Avenue D, between Remsen and East 89th Street in Brooklyn, will officially open its doors to the public on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 10 p.m.

Cedella Booker, the mother of the late Jamaican and international reggae superstar Bob Marley died late Tuesday April 8, at the age of 82.

A Cuban team of engineers from the Heritage and Architectural Bureau of the Historians Office of Havana, Cuba who did the drawings for the restoration of York House and the Governor General’s Residence came to the end of their stint at the Ministry of Works on Friday.

  NEW YORK (April 5, 2008) – The dictionary defines “Diaspora” as any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland.

St. Patrick’s, Grenada – The National Democratic Congress, with better than even odds of forming the next government, will unveil a key part of its platform for advancing the country’s social and economic development at a special meeting this Sunday, April 6.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (April 3, 2008) – Exclude the Hispanic-American market and you make a huge blunder. Americans of Hispanic descent now spend so much that their buying power is estimated to reach US$1.2 trillion by 2011. Reaching the potent Hispanic-American market is one of the issues under discussion […]

Kingston, Jamaica: Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night announced that he had directed the commissioner of police to carry out thorough investigations into the activities, in Jamaica, of a suspicious Air Jamaica passenger who was allegedly held with bomb-making materials at the Orlando International Airport in Florida yesterday.