News Americas, STAMFORD, CT, Mon. Dec. 19, 2011: The son of legendary Trinidad-born calypsonian, MacBeth the Great, has passed away at the age of 67.
Ralph MacDonald, the Grammy-award winning percussionist, songwriter, producer, and long time producer, passed away after a battle with lung cancer Sunday...
News Americas, BROOKLYN, NY, Mon. Nov. 14, 2011: The 25th anniversary of the killing of Caribbean-born Michael Griffith in Howard Beach NY is set to be remembered this year with an awards ceremony tomorrow.
The Griffith-Sandiford Family Assistance Fund Inc. will commemorate the killing of Griffith with...
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Oct. 24, 2011: While other entertainers are betting on perfumes and clothing lines, Trinidad-born rapper, Nicki Minaj, has set her sights on another line of business.
Minaj is hoping to add to her growing fortune with her own nail polish line. The Nicki Minaj Opi Nail...
News Americas, GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Thurs. Oct. 13, 2011: Trinidad & Tobago’s soccer squad will play at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico after all.
T&T has replaced Guatemala in the men’s tournament after the Central American nation was withdrawn by the country’s...
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. Oct. 11, 2011: Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper, Nicki Minaj, has made a shocking admission.
The top rapper tells Cosmo magazine that she considered taking her own life at one point.
“It was just one dead end after another. At one point, I was, like, ‘What...
News Americas, PHILLIPSBURGH, St. Maarten, Mon. Oct. 3, 2011: The Chief Secretary of Tobago’s House of Assembly, Orville London, recently spoke to News Americas on the state of Caribbean tourism. See his full comments here:
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. Sept. 27, 2011: Trinidad-born rapper, Nicki Minaj, is turning heads with a chicken necklace.
The singer wore a pink fried chicken necklace to perform a medley of Pink Friday hits for Day 2 of the iHeartRadio festival.
It’s the latest in foodie accessories for Minaj...
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri., Sept. 9, 2011: Three Caribbean American artists are among the 2011 nominees for the sixth annual BET Hip Hop Awards.
Jamaican American rapper Busta Rhymes along with Barbados’ Rihanna and Trinidad & Tobago’s Nicki Minaj are among this year’s nominees.
Rhymes...
News Americas, PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Tues. Sept. 6, 2011: Trinidad and Tobago’s state of emergency has been extended by three months.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told a rare sitting of Parliament that the state of emergency has prevented “a criminal uprising of untold proportions”...
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Sept. 2, 2011: Trinidad & Tobago-born author and professor, Elizabeth Nunez, has released a new novel.
“Boundaries,” by Nunez, is the story of an immigrant family, where a husband and wife cling to Victorian notions of privacy in a age of reality TV.
Their daughter,...
