PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Makandal Daaga (formerly Geddes Granger), founder of the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) which led the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago in 1970, and former Cultural Ambassador to CARICOM, died here on Monday. He was 80. Colm Imbert, acting Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, in offering condolences […]
August 17, 1946- July 2, 2016 SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad – Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning died at hospital here on Saturday. He was 69. He died of acute myeloid leukemia, his family said in a statement on his official Facebook page. Manning who was the longest serving Member of Parliament […]
Since its inception in 1995, A Different Booklist bookstore has had the distinct pleasure of launching Austin’s entire book in Canada. In 2014, A Different Booklist, in partnership with the Government of Barbados and Harbourfront Centre, dedicated a bench in the Ontario Square in honor of Austin Clarke, a Grandfather of Canadian and Commonwealth literature. […]
Austin Chesterfield Clarke, the award-winning Barbados-born author who wrote several novels, many of them about the experiences of black immigrants in Canada, died on Sunday at age 81, after a long illness. Clarke won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his 2002 novel “The Polished Hoe.” His memoir and final work […]
By Cecil Foster There is an old saying that the big difference between writers and those who think they can write is that the writers actually write. I think of this adage when I reflect on the life and death of my now departed friend and mentor Austin “Tom” Clarke. In our conversations, he always […]
As tributes continue to pour in from around the world on the passing of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, many are reflecting on the lasting impression he left on the Caribbean, especially when he fought his last fight and lost in The Bahamas in 1981. Ali, 74, who died June 3 after battling Parkinson’s disease for […]
When you are a teenager, you follow the lead of your father and brothers when it comes to sports. So, in 1964, my opinion of a young, mouthy heavyweight with the poetic name Cassius Clay was the house’s opinion: I wanted his big mouth permanently shut by the big fists of Sonny Liston. Of course, […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former radio and TV producer, presenter and actor Holly Betaudier (Holly B) passed away peacefully at his home last Sunday night. He turned 91 on Jan. 27. Betaudier saw all of his children within the last month and a half. On his dad’s passing, his son Holly Jr. said: “He’s […]
Hundreds of family, friends and associates celebrated a life well lived at the funeral recently for cricket’s Johnny Sean Bujan. Bujan, who died April 30, was a beloved member of the Metro All-fours Card League and involved in the business communities of Canada and Trinidad & Tobago. First and foremost a family man, Bujan was […]
Toronto including the Caribbean Diaspora are praying for the survival of a baby boy taken at just 20 weeks by C-section as his mother lay dying of a gunshot would inflicted by a gunman branded by a Toronto Police superintendent as disgraceful and a coward. The baby is in stable condition, hospital officials say, but […]
