A former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor was killed in an upscale neighborhood near Haiti’s capital and his body set on fire along with his nephew, Government Commissioner Jacques Lafontant told media on Sunday. The bodies of Yvon Buissereth and his unidentified nephew were found Saturday afternoon in the […]
Nаdègе St-Phіlірре, a рrоmіnеnt TV hоѕt and weather presenter оn Quеbес’ѕ TVA tеlеvіѕіоn nеtwоrk ѕіnсе 2006, died lаѕt Sаturdау evening, аftеr she hаd been dіаgnоѕеd with cancer for thе ѕесоnd time in hеr lіfе lаtе last уеаr. Tributes роurеd in frоm several оthеr Quebec tеlеvіѕіоn personalities аnd рublіс fіgurеѕ, аѕ thеу bесаmе аwаrе of St-Phіlірре’ѕ […]
Mavis Elaine Burke who founded Women for PACE, renamed PACE Canada, an organization initially set up to assist early childhood education in Jamaica, died on July 7 last at a nursing home in Markham, Ontario. She was 94. Burke who was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, grew up in Jamaica and came to Canada […]
He was born on November 10th 1952 at Broadway, San Fernando Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies. Williams died in a Toronto hospital on June 29th, 2022 due to complications from cancer and was cremated. Danny began playing football as a young boy at Naparima grounds in San Fernando. He entered San Fernando Government School where […]
The family of Regis Korchinski-Paquet has filed a $10 million lawsuit against several police officers and the head of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) more than two years after the 29-year-old woman fell to her death from the balcony of her home in Toronto. Also named as defendants in the lawsuit filed last week are […]
Bruce Arthur Skerritt, remembered fondly as Uncle Bruce, died last Friday of cancer from which he suffered for 20 years. Skerritt was a mainstay on the music scene in Toronto for the last 40 years bringing his infectious form of jazz and Calypso jazz music to Toronto, to many parts of Canada, and around the […]
Model Pasha Bleasdell who starred in rapper Nelly’s musical video “Hot in Herre,” died of a brain tumor at hospital in New York on June 4 last. She was 38. Canadian filmmaker Julien Christian Lutz, known professionally as Director X, announced her death in an Instagram post. “If you made videos in 2000’s or were […]
Margo Veronica Harris nee Yarde, 64, of Oshawa, peacefully passed away on June 10th, after a difficult battle with colon cancer. Margo was born on January 16th, 1958, to Randolph and Dorothy Yarde (both deceased) in Barbados. She was the sister of Sonia (also deceased). She was the Vice President of House of Culture, a […]
For уеаrѕ when James Ruѕѕеll drоvе through Nіаgаrа-оn-thе-Lаkе, Ont., hе noticed thе уаrd wіth twо hеаdѕtоnеѕ bеѕіdе a ѕmаll рlаzа оn Mіѕѕіѕѕаugа Street. Hе knеw іt wаѕ mоrе thаn a рlаіn раtсh оf grаѕѕ іn a ԛuіеt town. “Each tіmе I pass, I say, rеаllу ѕоmеbоdу nееdѕ tо аddrеѕѕ thіѕ іѕѕuе аnd finally, lаѕt Nоvеmbеr, […]
Renowned Barbadian novelist and poet George Lamming died on Saturday at the age of 94. He passed away in Barbados four days short of his 95th birthday on June 8. Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, in a release following Lamming’s passing, said there would be an official funeral for the writer who was so […]
