By Stephen Weir Rarer than a church handing out money on Sunday to its congregation, the new play Vierge (virgin) is breaking ground with its black all-female cast and its black female playwright. oh yes, its director is a Zambia-born black woman. The city has a long history of White male dominated theatre, Vierge is […]
Canada’s largest federal public-service union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), has announced that approximately 155,000 workers went on strike across the country after talks with the government failed to produce an agreement before last Tuesday night deadline. The strike action began on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. EDT and has been described as one […]
A Chinese company specialising in restoring precious artefacts and cultural relics said they are open to expanding their services to assist the Caribbean region. Journalists visited the Beijing Leshi Cultural Relics Restoration Center Limited on April 12, 2023, as part of a tour of Beijing’s Shunyi district courtesy of the China International Press Communication Center […]
By Lincoln DePradine Attorney Arley Gill, who is a leading advocate in the Caribbean movement that’s demanding reparations for the enslavement of Africans in the region, has said that Britain’s King Charles must do more than express sorrow over slavery. Reparations payment, “ultimately, is what we want,’’ Gill said in an interview with the BBC. […]
By Stephen Weir The Toronto Guyanese community is rallying behind Sandra Brewster, one of the three finalists for the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada’s largest and most prestigious annual peer-nominated prize for photographic art. Brewster, who was born to Guyanese parents, is known for her work in drawing, video, photo-based works, and installation that explore […]
African Export–Import Bank, also referred to as Afreximbank, is a pan-African multilateral trade finance institution created in 1993 under the auspices of the African Development Bank. It is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) board of directors has approved the opening of the bank’s CARICOM office to be established in Barbados. Afreximbank CARICOM […]
Stories submitted by writers from Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas have been shortlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The stories are The Ovelias at Benzie Hill Dump by Alexia Tolas (Bahamas), Where The Winds Blow by Cosmata Lindie (Guyana), Road Trip and Fall by Demoy Lindo (Jamaica), Ocoee by Kwame […]
The Guyana government says it is working with the Pan American Health Organisation and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) on a new initiative to eradicate five key infectious diseases in the country. The Ministry of Health said Filaria [big foot], leprosy, chagas, leishmaniasis or bush yaws, have been identified by the government to be eradicated […]
By Lincoln DePradine A Canadian government budget, in which one of the largest categories of spending is on healthcare and additional investment in the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative (SBCCI), has received mixed reaction – support from the Liberal Black Caucus and condemnation from the Conservative Party of federal Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. “At a […]
Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Housing, Diversity and Inclusion, said in an interview this week that the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative (SBCCI), introduced in 2019, is a program of which “our government is very proud.” Hussen, told The Caribbean Camera that the Initiative has been “well received across the country.” “It is something that […]
