PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – As world leaders discuss climate change in Paris, Trinidadians recall that an unusually heavy rainfall battered Trinidad’s east coast a year ago, overwhelming a lagoon and flooding a major access road to the island’s south-eastern communities. As the flood waters poured over Manzanilla beach, they washed sand away, caved in […]
VALETTA, Malta – Following an effective smear campaign conducted on her behalf, “Baroness Shameless” (as Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper named her), aka British Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, was selected as Commonwealth secretary general by heads of government meeting in Malta. Given that the Commonwealth Secretariat is located in Britain, and the dominant nationality of […]
ATLANTA, Georgia – Since August, when the reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana signalled a new era in U.S.-Cuba relations, the communist Caribbean country has featured prominently in travel circles, earning kudos for various aspects of its tourism plant and securing record bookings. Now, the island famous for its cigars, historic buildings, and vintage […]
LOS ANGELES, California – Barbados’ pop princess Rihanna, long considered one of the hardest working artists in the business, added another string to her bow with the opening of two new agencies: a beauty and stylist agency called Fr8me, and the photo agency A Dog Ate My Homework. Taking her love of fashion, hair and […]
As Trinidad and Tobago’s Ken Jeffers took his seat on the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB), many such boards are seeking explicit power to enforce new carding rules – clarity as to what the boards can do. Jeffers, appointed to the board by the provincial government for a two-year term, told The Camera he appreciates […]
The Caribbean is ripe for investment opportunities, a sentiment solidly expressed by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) in its first investment guide launched recently in Puerto Rico at a conference. Both the editor of the Caribbean Tourism and Hospitality Investment Guide and the CTO secretary general lauded […]
Eyesers, this is a continuation of my exclusive interview with Tyrone Tang, CEO and CFO of Caribbean Airlines, at the recent Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Caribbean Week in Toronto. And congrats Caribbean Airlines, the region’s leading airline, in the World Travel Awards, now having won five years in a row and for that special award […]
With the goal of creating a “world-class sport system”, the province is launching Game ON Sports Plan to “support our athletes from the playground to the podium,” Michael Coteau announced. The minister of tourism, culture and sport and formerly minister responsible for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Toronto, told The Camera that […]
The community is invited to a benefit dinner to launch Scarborough Hospital Foundation’s Caribbean Philanthropic Council at JC’s Banquet Hall, 1686 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, on Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. The council’s mission is to provide preventative health care measures unique to the Caribbean community. The council will carry out this mission through fundraising events […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Reggae king Bob Marley’s handwritten lyrics of Keep On Moving have emerged for sale for £10,000 (Cdn $20,300) , according the UK Mirror. The track is a reworked version of Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions’ I Gotta Keep On Moving and was done during a recording session at London’s Island Records. The […]
