The North American Caribbean Community is mourning the loss of a business giant, Lowell Hawthorne, who killed himself in one of his New York establishments on last week Saturday. The 57-year-old Hawthorne, who started the successful patty empire Golden Krust in 1989, with one storefront store in the Bronx, New York, was reportedly caught on […]
Arlayne Margaret Shepherd (nee Walker), a former secretary of the Organization of Calypso Performing Artistes (OCPA) who was well known in mas’ making circles in Toronto’s Caribbean community, died on Saturday. She was 87. Carnival aficionados recall that she sewed costumes for the first Caribana parade in 1967 and played mas’ that year. Calypsonian Cosmos […]
Canadian music teacher Daisy Elitha Peterson Sweeney who taught some of the most notable Canadian pianists, including her brother, the late Oscar Peterson, died in Montreal on Friday. She was 97. Sweeny co-founded the Montreal Black Community Youth Choir (now called the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir) with Trevor W. Payne in 1974. She earned a music diploma from […]
Trinidad-born mas’producer and bank executive Lystra Pierre died on Sunday at Scarborough Centenary hospital after a long battle with cancer. She was 65. In 1989, soon after she arrived in Canada from Trinidad, Pierre became a Member of Scarborough Caribbean Sports Club (SCSC) and its Scarborough Caribbean Youth Dance Ensemble (SCYDE). For more than 20 […]
Investigations are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the death last week of Jeremiah Perry, a 15-year old student of C.W. Jeffreys Collegiate Institute who drowned in a lake in Algonquin Park. The Guyana-born teenager who was with a group of students on an educational trip, was reported to have been swimming in Big Trout Lake […]
Toronto Police yesterday announced a reward of up to $50,000 for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the deaths of Candice Rochelle Bobb, a pregnant woman who was shot in Etobicoke in May last year, and her baby, Kyrene. Bobb, 33, of Malton who was born in […]
A Guyanese man was arrested on Saturday evening by police in the Regional Municipality of Durham, east of Toronto, and charged with the murder of his pregnant wife. Nicholas Tyler Baig, 25. of Pickering who was picked up by police in Markham, Ontario,was charged with second degree murder in the death of 27-year old Arianna […]
Trinidad-born artist Beverley Tang-Kong, manager of the Mississauga community art gallery, Imagemaker Art Prints, died on March 20 last in Mississauga after a lengthy illness. She was 62. Tang-Kong who taught art in Mississauga for several years, studied graphic design at George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto after graduating from the […]
Trinidad-born writer, broadcaster, and civil rights campaigner Darcus Howe died in England on Saturday. He was 74. Howe who lived in Brixton, south London, for more than 30 years, started his journalism career with the magazine Race Today, where he was editor for 11 years. He wrote for a wide range of newspapers and had […]
Guyana-born businessman Lionel M. Bedessee who founded Bedessee Imports Limited of Toronto, died on March 11 last after a lengthy illness. He was 83.. His company which is a major supplier of Caribbean food products, was founded in 1977 when there were few West Indian stores in the city. With the growth and expansion of […]
