A Canadian couple who came to Trinidad for the recent Carnival celebrations, drowned at a beach on the island on Sunday. The couple, David Francis, 34, and his wife Jessica, 33, were married three months ago. They arrived in Trinidad on February 24 last and were staying at a house in north-east Trinidad. Police said […]
By: Jenny Baboolal Hugh Borde left us on February 18, 2020. Although it was not a shock to hear this news, it brought a flood of emotions and memories of a dear friend. We met by chance, standing in a line waiting for service. Over the years I grew to know him as a generous, […]
Grenada-born community stalwart Albert Frederick, a longtime volunteer with the annual Toronto Caribbean carnival, died at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto on February 17 last. He was 85. Shennel Frederick, his granddaughter, said he had been ailing with heart problems for several years and had spent about a month in hospital. Frederick worked as a […]
GRAND ANSE BEACH, GRENADA – Sir Royston O. Hopkin KCMG, owner and chairman of the award-winning Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada has died following complications from heart surgery. He was 75 years old. Sir Royston, the only Caribbean hotelier ever knighted by the Queen of England, has had an extensive and distinguished career in […]
Edward Kamau Brathwaite contended that the English spoken by the descendants of slaves in the Caribbean carried a suppressed African identity. Edward Brathwaite, also known as Kamau Brathwaite, who has died aged 89, was a Caribbean poet and historian, praised by the American poet Adrienne Rich for his “dazzling inventive language, his tragic yet unquenchable […]
A second activist campaigning for the conservation of monarch butterflies and the woods in which they hibernate has been found dead in Mexico. Raúl Hernández worked as a tour guide at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state. His body, which bore signs of beatings and a head injury, was found two days after the funeral […]
By Nicole Georges-Bennett Fans of Kobe Bryant, for his accomplishments both on and off the basketball court, have expressed deep grief over the basketball legend’s death at the age of 41. Bryant and his 13-year old daughter Gianna, were two of nine people killed in a helicopter crash outside of Los Angeles, on Sunday, January […]
By Lincoln DePradine Grenadian Jimmy Emmanuel’s many friends included the late Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and Sir Vaughan Lewis, the former Prime Minister of St Lucia, where Emmanuel lived and worked for many years. Sir Vaughan is also a former director general of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), whose commission is based in St […]
Hundreds of customers and friends of Jamaica-born barber Ronald Ashford Wisdom who died on November 25 last, showed up at his funeral service on Saturday at the Salvation Army Yorkminister Citadel in Toronto. Many at the service described Wisdom, popularly known as Jimmy, as ” a community stalwart.” He was also described as being “fiercely […]
All cemeteries have stories to tell, and the one on Mucurapo Road in Port of Spain, Trinidad, is no exception. Among the names carved on headstones are Irene and Oscar Huth, Erna Marx, Karl Falkenstein, Willi Schwarz and Otto Gumprich. Hebrew inscriptions are adorned with a Star of David. Five years ago, Hans Stecher […]
