KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prominent Jamaican businessman, media magnate, Oliver Frederick Clarke, died on Saturday night after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 75. Clarke was the managing director and chairman of the 185-year-old Gleaner Company which publishes The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. The paper described Clarke as a “quintessential media tycoon, Caribbean luminary, humanitarian and […]
Trinidad-born civil engineer Nello Hycinto Carballo died at the Hamilton General hospital on May 6 last after suffering a stroke and a heart attack.He was 77. Carballo came to Canada in the early 1970s and his work as an engineer took him to several countries, his daughter, Nellana, told The Caribbean Camera. “He taught me […]
Betty Wright, the Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter whose hits included Clean Up Woman and Where is the Love, has died at age 66. Wright died at her home in Miami on Sunday, local media reported. She had been diagnosed with cancer in the fall. She made her breakthrough with 1971′s Clean Up Woman, which […]
Millie Small, the Jamaican singer behind ska classic My Boy Lollipop, has died after suffering a stroke, the BBC and The Jamaica Observer report. She was 72, according to a press release from Island Records. Born in south Jamaica, Small launched her recording career in Kingston before moving to London in 1963. She signed with […]
Retired Ontario Superior Court Judge Romain William Michael Pitt, died in Toronto on April 29 last. He was 84. Pitt who was born in Grenville, Grenada, was a founding director of the Caribbean Cultural Committee which for several decades organized Caribana, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival. After finishing his secondary school education in Grenada, Pitt entered […]
Trinidad-born songwriter Darnley Ashby died in a Kitchener, Ontario hospital on April 8 last after suffering a stroke.He was 88. Ashby who composed more than a hundred songs and was known in the music business as Secko, was diagnosed with dementia several years ago, his wife, Betty, told The Caribbean Camera. Ashby wrote and arranged […]
Former Toronto carnival bandleader, Arnold A. Hughes, died at the Credit Valley hospital in Mississauga on Thursday. He was 81. Hughes whose mas’ presentations won “band of the year ” twice at the Toronto Caribbean carnival, was taken to hospital last week after he fell at his home and suffered a head injury. Kathleen […]
Trinidad-born retired physician, Dr. Wilmot Thomas Richard Tackoor, died in Toronto on April 15 last. He was 84. A graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School, Dr. Tackoor was a family doctor for 48 years. He was the husband of the late Hyacinth Josephine (nee Barthelemy) and the father of Des (Judy), Jacinta Tackoor-Aljarmy […]
Tony Fernández , the former Blue Jays shortstop who helped the Toronto team win the 1993 World Series, died on Sunday after battling complications from a kidney disease and had suffered a stroke. He was 57. Fernández was taken off a life support system on Sunday afternoon with his family present at a hospital in […]
Two prominent members of the Caribbean community – lawyer Edward Sapiano and Calypsonian Kurk Barker – died within the last few days. Edward Sapiano, a colourful defence lawyer, well known for challenging authority, died of complications of kidney disease. According to the local media, Sapiano died on Saturday at his farm in the hamlet of […]
