Tag: Indo-Caribbean community

The annual NY Indo-Caribbean Phagwah Parade is this weekend. Holi or Phagwah is similarly celebrated everywhere in diasporic countries and India. In Guyana, or Trinidad or Suriname, we have grown ...

Shiv Ratri, an all night vigil, had to be curtailed because of crime. At the Bamboo No 1 Mandir, the worship closed at 10:00 p.m. so that devotees can return ...

Dear Editor, Several groups of Guyanese and others are in India as tourists to experience Holi celebrations. There is a group of 59 (led by singer Lake Persaud) and another ...

Several groups of Guyanese and other Indian Caribbean people are in India as tourists to experience Holi celebrations. There is a group of 59 (led by singer Lake Persaud) and ...

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. hosted 2025 annual Phagwah (Holi) Celebration Tuesday evening at the borough office. Similar celebrations were held all over NY last week and others are ...

Despite being twice removed from India, Indo-Caribbeans and other diasporic Indians in North America have retained much of their traditions and culture from their home countries in the Caribbean, Fiji, ...

We thank the Trump administration for its denouncement of Venezuela’s continuing threats and warning that, “Further provocation will result in consequences for the Maduro regime,” and France’s expressed concern over ...

President Zelensky’s public talk back to President Trump was reminiscent of Dr Cheddi Jagan’s encounter with President John Kennedy in 1961. If one rebukes the American leadership, you dig your ...

Indo Guyanese and Indo-Caribbean Americans, like the rest of USA, remain deeply divided and partisan on the policies and Presidency of Donald Trump after his address Tuesday evening to the ...

My engagements with Guyanese (in Guyana) revealed aspects of anti-Americanism and anti-Trumpism; very few Guyanese in USA are anti-Trump. There is hardly anti-Americanism among the wider public in Guyana although ...