B’day honors for Hamilton

Before the massive success on the Broadway stage, there was longtime, ongoing respect for Alexander Hamilton (photo inset), the American Founding Father — and treasured son of the Caribbean. And this week, officials from Nevis will be in Manhattan to cheer “Happy Birthday” for the celebrated Caribbean-American immigrant.

On Wednesday, Premier Vance Amory of Nevis, Hamilton’s birthplace, heads a high-level delegation for a wreath-laying and ceremony at the Founding Father’s Trinity Church gravesite in lower Manhattan to mark the 260th anniversary of his birth.

The visiting dignitaries also include Everson Hull, St. Kitts and Nevis ambassador to the Organization of American States; Evelyn Henville, a Hamilton scholar and former director of the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, and Devon Liburd of the Nevis Tourism Authority and the Hamilton Museum. They will join members of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, sponsors of the event.

Carnival group’s ann’y

The year 2017 is going to be extra-eventful for the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, sponsor of the colorful, culture-filled New York Caribbean Carnival Parade in Brooklyn. The association is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

The theme will be “Celebrating 50 years of Caribbean Carnival & Culture — From a Dream to a Legacy.”

Starting with the annual West Indian American Day Carnival Association service next Sunday at St. Matthew Catholic Church, 1123 Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Brooklyn, there is a yearlong list of anniversary events and activities leading up to the annual five-day New York Caribbean Carnival celebration beginning in late August.

For more information, call the association office at (718) 467-1797 or email wiadcainc@gmail.com. Also visit www.wiadcacarnival.org online.

Debut of literary gold

Almost seven decades after his death, the final novel by acclaimed Jamaicaborn Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay is being released next month in a Penguin Classics Hardcover edition.

The completed manuscript of McKay’s novel “Amiable with Big Teeth,” discovered in 2009, will reveal the late, great author’s dramatic look at Harlemites’ efforts to support the liberation of Fascist Italy-controlled Ethiopia. The book is laced with satire, intrigue and romance.

Glorious gridder

A respected colleague and sometime football fan told me about Haiti-rooted Cliff Avril, the Seattle Seahawks defensive end, who has been nominated for the prestigious Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award — and who has Haiti on his mind.

Each NFL team nominates players who have “had a significant positive impact on his community” and have exhibited excellence on and off the field. Avril, the son of Haitian immigrants, gives back through his Cliff Avril Family Foundation.

Learn more about Avril and the other nominees at www.nfl.com/manoftheyear.