PHOTOGRAPHER: Peter R. Barber Former Schenectady Mayor Al Jurscznski, center, with Tiffany Bishunath, left, Dylan Bishunath, Frederick and wife Uma Bishunath at Tiffany’s West Indian Restaurant on State Street recently. If they aren’t already, Guyanese-Americans are widely considered Schenectady’s largest ethnic group, says former Mayor Al Jurczynski, who’s credited […] Click here to view original article at dailygazette.com
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PHOTOGRAPHER: Peter R. Barber Left: Shazim Permaul runs along Iroquois Lake; Center: Shreya’s Exclusive owner Shelly Singh in her Crane Street store; Right: A Guyanese home in Schenectady SCHENECTADY – The ethnic makeup of cities is always evolving. Across the northern United States, cities have changed over the last […] Click here to view original article at dailygazette.com
Earlier this month, the talented Guyanese-born 27-year-old fashion designer and stylist, Anthony Singh was just hoping to find a puppy, asking his many social media friends for “Any help other than those lame Facebook adoption pages.” A week later, on the evening of April 13, Anthony would be found […] Click here to view original article at www.stabroeknews.com
SOURCE: ABC7NY Crystal Cranmore is the Race and Culture Reporter for WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News, New York’s #1 News. Crystal is thrilled to be back home to tell your stories as a member of the legendary Channel 7 Eyewitness News Team – a dream come true! She was born in Manhattan and raised in Maplewood, N.J. Prior to joining WABC-TV, Crystal reported for KYW-TV in Philadelphia. She chased breaking news, covered general assignment and feature stories,…
Dr. Esther Haynes-Tross is living the strict motto of her deceased parents, to work hard to achieve your goals and help others along the way to achieve theirs. The Brooklyn-based Guyanese-American, and dean of students of the Cecil and Olga Haynes School of Excellence, is in the process of re-migrating to the mining town of Linden, where she was born. Dr. Joseph Haynes, a certified clinical nutritionist and proprietor of the Health and Wellness Clinics…
When the pandemic overtook normal life in Canada last year, Ryerson student Emily Singh used the opportunity to help. She used her time to create individual care packages for children overseas and packed each one with a face mask, towel, toothbrush and soap for a child in Guyana, her family’s home country. Singh, who is Miss West Indian Canadian, made helping Guyanese children her “passion project” — a way of using her title to benefit…
via www.illinoistimes.com June Wood Agamah moved to Springfield in 1995 with her husband, Dr. Edem Agamah, and their three young daughters. It’s a long way from her Guyana homeland – where she was called Caryl. Edem was born in Ghana. Frequently Americans assume they are from the same country. They were born nearly 4,000 miles and an ocean apart. Guyana is on the northern coast of South America and Ghana on the western coast of…
By Joy Persaud www.telegraph.co.uk When someone asks, “Where are you from?” I’ll try to guess what version of the truth they want. For some, the fact that I was born and bred in northwest London but now live on the English south coast is enough by way of explanation. But, for others, it’s a precursor to: “But, where are you really from?” I am British but not British enough (for certain people). I have Indian…
Krista Martins is a professional choreographer, ACE-certified group fitness instructor and founder of Wukkout!® She has been teaching and performing professionally for over 15 years; she is also a Professor at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus where she teaches hip hop dance to undergraduate students. Krista has performed in a wide variety of music videos, commercials and television shows including but not limited to performances with MTV, BET, and the NFL. Most notably, her choreography…
Via stabroeknews.com Guyanese-born physician assistant, a frontline worker at a New York hospital, successfully beat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and returned to her job when it was “overloaded” with patients, many of whom were dying. Shara Khan told Stabroek News (SN) she was not prepared for what came next. The facility was turned into a Covid-19 hospital. “I badly wanted to go back to work as I knew there were people there that needed…