CARICOM NATIONS CELEBRATE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
BY A FLAG RAISING CEREMONY AT BOWLING GREEN
DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) throughout the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, comprising of Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts/Nevis/Anguilla, St. Lucia, St. Vincint, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos.
New York Mayor Eric Adams officiated the flag-raising ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), along with Kenneth Bryan, Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization and other members of the Caricom Diplomatic corps in New York City.
Present at the ceremony was Guyana’s Minister of Human Services and Social Security Vindhya Persaud.
New York’s connection with the Caribbean West Indies leads to Alexandar Hamilton whose face is immortalized in the US$10 bill and the Broadway show “Hamilton” is a Founding Father of the United States. Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Islands of Caribbean West Indies. He was a soldier, lawyer, scholar, economist, congressman, and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander Hamilton passed away on July 12, 1804 and is buried at the Trinity Church in New York’s financial district, a stone throw from Caricom’s flag raising ceremony being held at Bowling Green, downtown, New York City.
Photos/Videos by Nala Singham – Caribbean New Yorker
Article By Nala Singham
