Caribbean Life News Update – April 5, 2017 
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immigration enforcement- Still a chance for Caribbean immigrants
BY NELSON A. KING | IMMIGRATION
Even as United States President Donald J. Trump has stepped up immigration enforcement, creating an atmosphere of fear among Caribbean and other immigrant communities that extends to the courtroom, a Caribbean immigration attorney in Brooklyn says there is still hope of nationals to adjust their status even though they had entered the US without inspection or had overstayed their visa.
Climate Change solutions can’t wait for U.S. leadership
BY DESMOND BROWN | ENVIRONMENT
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 4, 2017 (IPS) – From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of the biggest challenges for the countries of the Caribbean.
A chance to prevent government-mandated discrimination
BY CHARLENE NIMMONS AND MARTIN ALLEN |VIEWPOINTS
As people across this country debate multiple issues around discrimination and the government’s role in them, here in New York, the City Council is seeking a law that would effectively create its own form of government-mandated discrimination.
Former Vincentian consul general honored
BY NELSON A. KING | ST VINCENT
The three-year-old Friends of Sion Hill, Inc. Saturday evening bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on former St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ New York Deputy Consul General Cyril “Scorcher” Thomas at the group’s Second Annual Black-Tie Awards Ceremony and Dance at the Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center in Brooklyn.
Prodigal daughter tries to reconcile with estranged dad
BY KAM WILLIAMS | MOVIES
It’s not very clear whether Harry Catto’s (Joe Blakemore) death was a murder or a suicide. One thing’s for certain, though. It wasn’t merely a mishap, because nobody accidentally sticks a gun in his own mouth and pulls the trigger. The cops suspect that he killed himself, but his father (David Troughton) is too much in shock to press them to launch a full investigation.
Pakistan wins Twenty20 cricket series
BY AZAD ALI | SPORTS
West Indies failed to capitalize on the previous day when they blasted Pakistan to a three-wicket win in just 14.5 of their allotted 20 overs in the third of their four International Twenty 20 series at the Queen’s Park Oval, in Trinidad.
Vincentians walk for Penn Relays
BY NELSON A. KING | ST VINCENT
The rain held up, after drenching New York almost non-stop for over 24 hours, but it was very cold and blustery, as Vincentians braved the elements on Saturdaymorning, April, to demonstrate their fervent support for national athletes participating in this year’s Penn Relays Carnival, at the Franklin Field Stadium, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
How a devastating hurricane led to St. Vincent’s first sustainability school
BY KENTON X. CHANCE | ST VINCENT
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, March 30, 2017 (IPS) – In the 1980s, an institution for troubled Danish youth and a vocational school for Vincentians was built in Richmond Vale, an agricultural district on the northwestern tip of St. Vincent.
Brooklyn’s greenest oasis celebrates 150
BY VINETTE K. PRYCE | BROOKLYN
It was no April Fools’ joke that on the first day of this month thousands congregated, ran, walked, rode, in celebration of a green space marking a century and half of existence in New York.
France hosts major exhibition on Jamaican music
BY A. D. MCKENZIE | ARTS & THEATER
PARIS, March 29, 2017 (IPS) — It’s one of those movie-like spring days in Paris, where blue skies and brilliant sunshine lift spirits after a long, wet, grey winter. Many people are outdoors trying to catch the rays, but Jamaican artist Danny Coxson is not among them. He’s inside a museum in a northeastern neighbourhood of the French capital, with a brush in his hand and tubs of vivid paint beside him, focusing on finishing a portrait of a deejay named Big Youth.
