Presenter Angela Cooper sings the National Anthem.
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bean community.”
In her acceptance address, Larghi said:
“Who would (have) ever thought a deaf
girl would be so liberated? I thank a sister
by another mother, Angela Cooper.”
New York State Comptroller Thomas
DiNapoli said it was “great” to bring brief
remarks, stating that the honorees “offer
the best New York has to offer.”
World renowned Guyanese drummer
Menes De Griot, a 2019 Caribbean Life
Impact Awardee, and his group, comprising
Mama Nyaah, Jaime Brown and
Sundiata King, performed during the ceremony.
“A big congratulations to all of tonight’s
honorees,” said Boone. “We appreciate
you all. Thank you all at home for spending
the evening with us virtually, and
supporting this very important celebration
for the Caribbean community in New
York and supporting Caribbean Life.
“A very big thank you again to our
sponsors who made it possible for us
to bring this event to you tonight,” she
added, naming them: Spectrum; St.
John’s Episcopal Hospital; Amida Care;
Resorts World Casino, New York City;
New York City Health & Hospitals; Mt.
Sinai; Meadowbrook Financial Mortgage
Banker Corp.; Positive Women United;
Harlem Commonwealth Council & Harlem
Entrepreneurial Fund; Ideal School
of Allied Health Care; and Kingsborough
Community College.
The other distinguished honorees at
the ceremony were:
Dwayne Smith Alexander, Urban Architectural
Initiatives;
Joam Alisme, Alisme Law, LLC;
Marissa Janneire-Ash, Crothall Healthcare
Services;
Anthony Beckford, Black Lives Matter
Brooklyn;
Kevin Beckford, The Hustler’s Guild;
R. Gary Campbell, Dime Community
Bank;
Cindy O. Charles, Kupanda Sisters,
Inc.;
Sylvia Cothia, Positive Women United;
Humphrey A. Crookendale, Dean, Metropolitan
College of New York;
Berthe Erisnor, Mount Sinai Morningside;
Nicole Robinson-Etienne, Institute for
Community Living.
Fitzgerald Giddings, Jr., JRG Entertainment;
Rose Green, MSN, RN, New York State
Nurses Association;
Chantal Innocent, Amida Care;
Carine Jocelyn, Diaspora Community
Services;
Malikka D. Karteron, Global25;
Nicole Laborde, Ideal School of Allied
Healthcare;
Dr. Errol Mallett, Vantage Medical
Group;
Melissa Noel, award-winning multimedia
journalist and travel correspondent;
Wendy O’Brien, RN, MBA/HSA, Mount
Sinai Health Systems;
Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, The McSilver
Institute for Poverty Policy and Research
at New York University and Haitian
Roundtable.
Rajin Ramdeholl, Meadowbrook Financial
Mortgage Corp.;
James C. Richmond, poet, writer and
actor;
Najay Roache, Spectrum;
Dr. Brittany R. Richards, DNP, FNPBC,
RN-BC, New York City College of
Technology;
Lesleyann Samuel, Union of Jamaican
Alumni Associations (USA), Inc.;
Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP,
Hon. ASLA, Hon. RTPI, New York City
Parks Department;
Michelle Stoddart, Resorts World Casino;
Dr. Joseph L. Tait, Harlem Commonwealth
Council, Inc.;
Dr. Keisha V. Thompson, CUNY Kingsborough
Community College;
Elizabeth Wellington, Long Island African
American Chamber of Commerce,
Inc. (LIAACC).
Nominations are now open for Caribbean
Life’s next annual ceremony in
November, according to Amanda Tarley,
director of Virtual Events.
You can contact Amanda Tarley for
nominations and sponsorship information,
or if you have an event that you
would like to be produced virtually, at
718-249- 9640, or email her at atarley@
schnepsmedia.com.
Presenter Dr. Nelson King led the evening’s opening
with a prayer.
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