Jamaica-born author Garfield Ellis died on Friday at the Scarborough General hospital in Toronto after a battle with cancer. He was 57. Ellis who grew up in Jamaica, was the eldest of nine children. He studied marine engineering, management and public relations in Jamaica and completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the University […]
Conrad “Terry” Gibbs who served as Grenada’s Consul General in Toronto from 2002 to 2006, died at the Scarborough General hospital on February 27 last. He was 76. After graduating from Presentation Boy’s College in Grenada, Gibbs went to St.Lucia where he taught at St. Mary’s College. He later earned a bachelor’s degree from Inter-American […]
Civil rights leader Dr. Howard Douglas McCurdy died on February 20 at the age of 85. He was the second Black member of Parliament in Canada – the first for the New Democratic Party – and the first tenured Black professor in Canadian history. At his funeral in Windsor, Ontario on Saturday, poet George Elliott […]
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – Saint Lucian poet, playwright, actor, director and singer, Gandolph St. Clair, died on Sunday, He was 66. St. Clair is reported to have collapsed at his home last week and was rushed to hospital but his condition worsened. He was a Director of Carnival and the author of several poems, plays […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -The popular Trinidadian comedian and storyteller Ramdeen Ramjattan, better known as John Agitation, died at hospital in Trinidad on Monday. He was 90. Ramjattan was reported to have been ailing for some time. He died hours after he was taken to hospital. Ramjattan contested and won the Guaico-Cumuto seat in the […]
Clyde McNeil, widely known promoter of Caribbean music who owned Club Trinidad, died at hospital in Tobago on January 3 last. He was 69. Friends of the promoter said that he had been ailing with kidney problems and high blood pressure McNeil who came to Canada in 1966, worked as a lab technician at the […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former President of Trinidad and Tobago Professor George Maxwell Richards died at hospital here on Monday night. He was 86. A source close to the family said Richards was taken to hospital on Monday night after suffering a heart attack. Richards who was a former principal of the University of […]
Helen Wailoo, nee Hoyte, a Guyanese centenarian and the matriarch of the Wailoo family, died in Toronto on December 21 last, shortly after her 100th birthday. She was born in 1917 in what was then British Guiana to a Guyanese mother and a Barbadian father, and raised 10 children in the hard times of the […]
Betty John who created carnival history in Trinidad by winning both the national carnival queen contest in Port of Spain and the local queen contest in her hometown, San Fernando, in 1962, died at Bridgepoint hospital in Toronto on November 17 last. She was 75. Her son, Joel, said his mother who suffered from diabetes […]
A Brampton, Ontario resident, Vishnu Narine, was killed in his native Trinidad and Tobago last week Friday, during his vacation with his wife in the twin-island republic. The body of the 56-year-old Narine was found on a gravel road, with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. The police in Trinidad and Tobago believe he was […]
