Family members from Canada, the United States, England and Barbados got together in Trinidad on Sunday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Viola Rochester-Doyle. In picture, Mrs. Rochester-Doyle with her son, Eddison, former Chief Financial Officer of the Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten […]
By Gerald V. Paul Canadian Olympic sprinter Andre De Grasse was honoured on Sunday by the City of Markham with a grand Homecoming celebration at which an announcement was made by Mayor Frank Scarpitti that a street will be named after him. Wearing his three Rio Olympic medals , De Grasse, a resident of Markham, […]
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart will deliver the keynote address at the ninth annual Errol Barrow Memorial Dinner to be held at the Markham Convention Centre in Toronto on Saturday, September 24. (Errol “Dipper” Barrow was the first prime minister of Barbados. He founded the Democratic Labour Party and became its leader in 1958. Barrow […]
Jasminee Sahoye Women with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) are much more likely to have a wide range of mental and physical health problems in comparison to women without it, according to a University of Toronto study. ADHD is a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning development. “The […]
Letter to the Editor ‘Rouge area constituents were taken for a ride’ Dear Editor: I have been following the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection, as I lived in the area for ten years and still have ties there. I am wondering if I am the only person who sees a problem with the chain of events leading […]
By Gerald V. Paul As Panmasters Steel Orchestra, led by veteran pannist Tommy Crichlow, belted out ‘Solidarity Forever,’ 25,000 strong marched in Toronto’s Labour Day parade in which several groups from the Caribbean community were represented. Guyana-born Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, CLC, told The Caribbean Camera in an interview at the […]
Jamaican farm workers who lost all their belongings in a fire which gutted their living quarters in Brant Country, Ontario on July 28 last, have high praise for donors who came to their assistance. After the fire,33 workers at Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation in Mt. Pleasant, were left with just the clothes […]
By Harold Hosein Summer 2016 will go down as one of the hottest in Ontario in the last 50 years.But there are still a few weeks of summer left. So we will have to wait until the end of that time to determine whether it is actually the hottest on record in the province. Memories, including […]
To commemorate Trinidad and Tobago’s 54th anniversary of its independence, UNI-TnT, a newly formed organization of Trinidad and Tobago nationals in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). is holding its first annual Family and Friends Picnic on Sunday at Petticoat Creek, Pickering. Neil Rampersad, Treasurer/Secretary of UNI-TnT, said curry duck and mango chow competitions will […]
