Declaring his intention to break more records, the world’s fastest man, Olympian Usain Bolt, is creating viral buzz and has the internet singing along to his new holiday song entitled “Gifted.” Inspired by Eddie Murphy’s 1980s hit “Party All the Time”, the music video has quickly racked up more than 6.5 million views and 100,000 […]
More than a dozen singers and dancers from Toronto’s Caribbean community have donated ” time and talent” for a benefit concert to raise funds for relief efforts for Haiti following last month’s devastating hurricane which killed more than a thousand people in the island and left more than a million homeless. In what has been […]
By Gerald V. Paul Antigua and Barbuda’s Information Minister Melford Nicholas, speaking on the theme ” building an economic powerhouse together,” called on fellow nationals in Toronto to pursue excellence for its own sake and make it their daily commitment. In the keynote address at a gala on Saturday night to celebrate Antigua and Barbuda’s […]
Several Black youth, mental health researchers, frontline workers and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes will share their stories about mental health, recovery and support at the Black Health Alliance’s Mental Health and Youth forum on Saturday. Venue for the forum is the North York Civic Centre Council Chamber (5100 Yonge Street). The event runs from 9 a.m. […]
“Errol Barrow: Freedom Fighter,” a full-length feature film on the life of the former prime minister of Barbados who led his country to political independence in 1966, will have its world premiere at the Innis Town Hall cinema, University of Toronto, on November 12. This docudrama stars Adrian Holmes, a Canadian of Barbadian heritage, and […]
By Ben Torres Calypso Joe, Antigua and Barbuda’s first Road March King (1970) and its 1971 Calypso Monarch, took his audience on a delightful trip down memory lane on Friday night at a “cultural evening ” at the Chelsea Eaton hotel in Toronto to mark his country’s 35th anniversary of its independence. Accompanying himself on […]
WOB QUEEN Sharlene Jn Baptiste of St. Lucia celebrates Jounen Kweyol (Creole Day) at the Jamaican Canadian centre in Toronto last Sunday.Jounen Kweyol is a major festival in St. Lucia.
Canadian pharmaceutical chemistry student Dannilian Motilal of Markham, Ontario won the 2016 Divali Nagar Queen pageant in Trinidad on Thursday night. She also won the People’Choice award and Miss Photogenic in the competition organized by the National Council of Indian Culture in Trinidad. Dinnilian,19, who was born and grew up in Canada, is the daughter […]
Ben Torres took his camera with him to Charley’s West Indian Food Store in Scarborough in time to catch shoppers stocking up on special items for Divali celebrations on Saturday. Here is his report about the festival of lights in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). By Ben Torres Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, is […]
Vincentians in the Diaspora should work together to build national pride and should use their voice to be advocates for change. So said Camillo Gonsalves, St. Vincent and the Grenadines’s Minister of Economic Planning, Sustainability Development, Industry, Trade, Information and Labour at a gala in Toronto on Saturday to celebrate the country’s 37th anniversary of […]
