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CRICKET IN QUEENS: R. Singh, batsman for Richmond Hill, runs to score as fielders from the Aviation Flyers wait for the retrieval of the ball, during a high school cricket match in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, April, 2, 2008. New York City schools launched a cricket league in April, apparently the first school system in the country to offer the sport. The response has been overwhelming, a reflection of the city's growing number of immigrants from the Caribbean and South Asia, where cricket is the most popular sport.

COMMUNITY AWARDS: (Standing l-r) Desmond Green, director of Caribbean Affairs, Universal Peace Federation, NY, Dexter McKenzie, President, Provident Clinical Society, Dennis Hawthorne, CEO of Dennis Shipping Company, Robert "Bob" C. Desouza, CEO, Trans-Continental Express Shippers, Ian Forrest, communicator and honoree, Mathieu Eugene, New York City Council Member; Jamaica's Acting Consul General to New York, Lincoln Downer, Bishop Cecil G. Riley of Freedom Hall Church of God and Harry Bhoorasingh, Manager of Jamaica National Overseas, NY with honorees (seated l-r) Hope Morris representing Ken Williams, veteran broadcast; Karlene Gordon, Director of the Caribbean American Program for Empowerment; Annette M. Nelson, stage manager, Hyacinth E. Spence, community activist and Sadie Aarons-Campbell, President of the Jamaica Progressive League, Inc who were honoured at Black History Month Celebration at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Monday, (February 25)

LEGAL TALK: Anthony Johnson, Jamaica’s ambassador to the US and attorney-at-law, Maurice Maitland talk about laws at the Generation 2000 (G2K) organized welcome party held last Saturday at The Elegant Rose Hall, the Bronx in honor of the ambassador.

Pictured with principal Barbara Gill (3rd r) are (l-r) Chudi Nwasike, Martin Evelyn, Alain Dorlean, Julian Cantres and Darryl Alexander. Nazareth Students Honored by the National Achievement Scholarship Program

-Photo by Amir Akbar THANK YOU: (l-r) Congresswoman Yvette Clarke-11th Congressional District and Ellen M Conway, director, Public & Diplomatic Liaison/Visa Services, US Department of State after her presentation at an ‘immigration town hall meeting’ sponsored by Clarke and was held on Monday, April 21 at Suny Downstate Medical Center-Auditorium, Brooklyn.