Pierre-Paul had a Giant impact
It’s been a “Super” time for NFLer Jason Pierre-Paul, but the second-generation Haitian-American’s stint in the New York area ended last week when the New York Giants traded the talented defensive end to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The unexpected trade for Pierre-Paul gives the team two draft picks and needed salary cap space for 2019. Tampa Bay will get a key player to help the Buccaneers rebuild their defensive power and bolster their long-denied playoff hopes.
He had 68 tackles, 8½ sacks and two forced fumbles last season. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2011 and 2012 and was an All-Pro in 2011, when he had a career-high 16½ sacks, the fourthhighest total in Giants history. And Pierre-Paul also helped the Giants defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.
Born in Deerfield Beach, Fla., to Haitian immigrants in 1989, Pierre-Paul — a high school and college standout — was a first-round draft pick for the Giants in 2010.
While with the Giants, Pierre-Paul severely damaged his right hand in fireworks accident in 2015, resulting in the amputation of his right index finger. Last year, he signed a $62 million contract.
Rest and relaxation plus
Taking sun and fun to a higher level, the Caribbean Tourism Organization has declared 2018 the Year of Rejuvenation and Wellness and created the “Caribbean Guide to Rejuvenation and Wellness” to tout the region’s many activities to calm, the body, mind and soul of visitors.
CTO officials say the guide is available for download and printing — heartily encouraging the public to spread the word of the region’s “Rejuvenation and Wellness” opportunities far and wide.
There’s also a download link for anyone who wishes to download and print copies. We do hope you’ll share as widely as possible, and will encourage others to read and share the publication.
Edited by communication specialist Johnson JohnRose and designed by communications specialist Kristy Morris, the inviting and informative guide displays events, activities and happenings in CTO member nations for government officials, tourism professionals and the general public.
Retreats, conferences, yoga sessions, fitness events, meditation locations, spa parties, body treatments and naturalmade products and wellness foods are some of the topics covered in the guide’s chapters. Visit http://bit.ly/2018CTOWellnessGude to see the guide.
Thanks for Guyana charity work
Congratulations on a job well done was message conveyed to the Subraj Foundation last week by members of the Indian Diaspora Council International and other dignitaries who recognized the foundation’s decades of medial missions and charity work in Guyana.
The foundation’s founder, the late George Subraj, and his family were honored on March 18 in Queens Village, Queens, for conducting medical missions to Guyana, which brought stateof-the art medical technology and provided corneal transplants and other procedures to needy people in the country.
In 1992, the Subraj Foundation was started by the late George Subraj, who founded Jamaica, Queens-based Zara Realty in 1982. The company grew to become a major manager of residential property in Queens.
Subraj died in 2016, but his foundation, which collaborates with Guyana’s Georgetown Public Hospital and other institutions and organizations, continues to improve the lives of people in his Guyana homeland — bringing medical experts for corneal and kidney transplants.