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 […]
By Dr. Shashta Sawh As we move through breast cancer awareness month, there is no doubt a lot of hustling and bustling occurs with events raising awareness for the fight against breast cancer. There is much talk about breast health and what should and should not be done to ensure healthy breasts as this time […]
We are extremely surprised at the responses which are receiving to our announcement last week of the competition for the design of a postage stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Caribana, the Trinidad-style carnival in Toronto. Never did we imagine that this competition would excite such great interest from so many people outside the […]
By Gerald V. Paul Grenada-born Jarryl Hagley, 17, was shot inside a take-out restaurant on Weston Road in Toronto’s west end in the presence of friends around 1.40 a.m. on Monday. He died less than two hours later at hospital. No one else was hurt in the shooting and police are seeking the community’s help […]
By Gerald V. Paul No family member was there to shed a tear at Claudia’s funeral service in Toronto last week. Not even her daughter, Diana, who was thousands of miles away in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia as her mom ‘s body was lying in a coffin at the chapel of a Toronto […]
Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official, as the death toll from the storm rose to more than1,000 people. The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti last week with 145 mile-per-hour (233 kph) winds and torrential […]
NEW YORK – A Guyana-born police officer was last week found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally gunning down his ex-fiancée back in 2007 in an incident described as the deadly end of the couple’s two-year tumultuous relationship. According to a New York Post report, Harry Rupnarine, 39, was found guilty by a Queens Supreme […]
A 69-year-old Trinidadian woman was found stabbed to death in her Bronx, New York home on Sunday night. The victim, identified by family members as Lila Ramsaran, formerly of Penal, Trinidad, had been stabbed multiple times in the back when police found her inside her house on Cranford Avenue near Hill Avenue in Wakefield about […]
Toronto City Councillor Michael Thompson says he is disappointed that no concrete action has yet been taken on his proposal for the establishment of a registry to document the arrival of children entering Canada as immigrants. In an interview on the weekend, the Jamaica-born councillor told The Caribbean Camera that he was still awaiting word […]
As Barbados marks the 50th anniversary of its independence this year, its heroes are being honoured. Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart spoke of several of them on Saturday in his keynote address at the ninth annual Errol Barrow Memorial dinner at the Markham Convention Centre in Toronto. He noted that 2016 is an important year […]
