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Caribbean Carnival fun in the Rockaways this Saturday
BY BILL PARRY
It’s been two decades since the Baha
Men launched “Who Let the Dogs Out”
into pop culture, becoming one of the
highest-selling singles of the decade not
to reach number-one in the United States.
Now Anslem Douglas, the Grammy
Award winning singer and songwriter
behind the hit song that became a stadium
anthem across the globe, will perform
at Senator James Sanders Jr.’s Caribbean
Carnival in the Rockaways on Saturday,
Aug. 17.
Th e third annual event will kick off at
11 a.m. at Beach 20th Street and Seagirt
Boulevard in Far Rockaway featuring a
parade of fl oats, steel pan bands, moko
jumbie stilt walkers, and masqueraders
that will culminate at Bayswater Park with
live performances including Fasol Band,
reggae sensation Bigga Haitian, Jamaican
reggae and dancehall artist Kemar Bailey,
HeidiBe, Dre Q and Foundation Band.
“We are going to have some fun,”
Sanders Jr. said. “We are going to be celebrating
all of the Rockaways, but we will
be particularly highlighting the contributions
of the Caribbean Community in
America.”
Last year’s Caribbean Carnival drew
thousands to Far Rockaway and even
more are expected this year due to the
lineup of entertainers in Bayswater Park
located at 701 Beach 32nd Street from
around 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Th e Carnival
is presented in partnership with the
West Indian American Day Carnival
Association, the Rockaway Development
Revitalization Corporation and the New
York City Parks Department.
“Th ere will be good food, good company.
Come and make a friend,” Sanders
said. “We are going to have a ball.”
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��his week’s Power Woman podcast
features Natoya McGhie, presidentelect
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Join us as McGhie speaks to our host
Victoria Schneps about her life growing
up in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, coming to the
United States at 14 years of age, and now
becoming the second-youngest person
to hold the position of president at the
BWBA.
She talks about her strong pull towards
law enforcement and the wonderful
mentors in her life, including her
great-grandmother who helped raise
her, and the strong ethics she
learned as a child.
“I always had a sense of
responsibility to go to school,
to do the right thing, to be
good.” she said.
McGhie’s journey has
taken her from Canarsie
High School to John Jay College
of Criminal Justice to NY Law
School, where she studied at night after
working all day. She started her career
at the Legal Aid Society where she litigated
and tried cases, and is now a principal
court attorney in Brooklyn.
Mentorship is a huge part of McGhie’s
life and she is currently the co-chair
of the BWBA’s
Young Lawyers
Committee
and its
Mentorship
Committee.
In speaking
of her internship
with
one of her
mentors, the
Hon. Nancy
B a n n o n ,
McGhie says
that “she really
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me to be the person that I am
right now.”
When Victoria Schneps
asked her what would be good
advice to give to young people
starting out today, McGhie
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get out there and just meet
people, network, have face to
face interactions.”
She continued, “It’s not who you
know, it’s who knows you.”
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com and wherever podcasts are
heard.
Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Anslem Douglas headlines the 3rd annual Caribbean
Carnival in the Rockaways Saturday.
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