{"id":197591,"date":"2017-06-08T23:34:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/national-caribbean-heritage-month-kicks-off-amsterdam-news\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T23:34:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:34:04","slug":"national-caribbean-heritage-month-kicks-off-amsterdam-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/caribbean\/national-caribbean-heritage-month-kicks-off-amsterdam-news\/","title":{"rendered":"National Caribbean Heritage Month kicks off &#8211; Amsterdam News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Several elected officials kicked off National Caribbean    American Heritage Month with a celebration of nine people of    Caribbean heritage at the Our Caribbean Heritage Celebration    last weekend at the Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public    Library in Manhattan, hosted by City Council Member Andy King.  <\/p>\n<p>    Among this years honorees were City Council Speaker Melissa    Mark-Viverito; United Nations Ambassador to Dominica the Hon.    Bannis-Roberts; Gabriel J. Christian, Esq.; Henry A. Garrido,    DC 37 executive director; Ambassador Curtis Ward, former    ambassador of Jamaica to the United Nations; the Hon. Dr.    Irving W. Andr, Superior Court of Justice, Dominica; Crispin    Gregoire, United Nations Development Programs chief of the    Caribbean Strategic Monitoring and Support Unit of the Regional    Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean; and Dr. Clayton    Shillingford, former president of the Dominica Academy of Arts    and Sciences.  <\/p>\n<p>    Supporters of Our Caribbean Heritage Celebration include    Congress members Gregory Meeks and Eliot Engel; borough    presidents Ruben Diaz Jr, Bronx and Eric Adams, Brooklyn; state    senators Jamaal Bailey and Kevin Parker; State Assembly members    Latrice Walker, Rodneyse Bichotte, Victor Pichardo, Diana    Richardson and N. Nick Perry; and City Council members Bill    Perkins, Fernando Cabrera, Rory Lancman, Rosie Mendez, Mark    Levine, Rafael Espinal, Laurie Cumbo, Corey Johnson, Vanessa    Gibson and Jumaane Williams.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2017\/jun\/08\/national-caribbean-heritage-month-kicks\/\" title=\"National Caribbean Heritage Month kicks off - Amsterdam News\">National Caribbean Heritage Month kicks off - Amsterdam News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Several elected officials kicked off National Caribbean American Heritage Month with a celebration of nine people of Caribbean heritage at the Our Caribbean Heritage Celebration last weekend at the Celeste Bartos Forum, New York Public Library in Manhattan, hosted by City Council Member Andy King. Among this years honorees were City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito; United Nations Ambassador to Dominica the Hon.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/caribbean\/national-caribbean-heritage-month-kicks-off-amsterdam-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}