The funeral service for Winston Anthony Lloyd Cozier – known as Tony Cozier – the Barbados and West Indian cricket writer, commentator and journalist who died May 11 in his home country Barbados at 75, will be tomorrow (May 20) at Coral Ridge Memorial Gardens, The Ridge in Christ Church. Cremation to follow. According […]
Johnny Bujan, a Toronto & District Cricket Association board member and former Canadian national cricket team manager, died last Saturday in Trinidad. Johnny was also sports director of Masters Cricket Club, formerly known as Brampton Masters Cricket Club, one of the most successful clubs in the T&DCA league, which produced many Canadian national players over the […]
“Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep…” Nicholas Burnett. He came ….he saw and he conquered the hearts of the Caribbean community with his wonderful personality and musical delights. He is Trinidad and Tobago-born Kevin Mark Amrall Sultan-Khan- born April 24, a compassionate soul who moved […]
Trinidad and Tobago-born Ravina Budhooram has been identified as one of the young people killed in a Jane and Sheppard car crash, where two unidentified men also lost their lives. Twenty-one-year-old Budhooram’s Facebook page says she was a student at Seneca College. “Such a beautiful person you were Ravina Budhooram. You were the light in […]
The Caribbean Diaspora came, sang their hymns and choruses and Bob Marley’s One Love as thousands in Toronto said farewell to former mayor Rob Ford yesterday, including a joyful moment at St. James Cathedral when his daughter Stephanie, 11, told mourners, “He’s the mayor of Heaven now.” Ford’s funeral procession wound from City Hall where […]
Rangy Nanan, the former Trinidad and Tobago off-spinner and captain, died March 23 in Trinidad. He was 62. Nanan made his first-class debut for Trinidad and Tobago in 1973 and represented his country for nearly two decades during 1973-91. He played in 94 first-class matches taking 366 wickets and also scored 2,607 runs with one century and nine half-centuries. Despite […]
Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is being mourned by the Caribbean community in which he had many supporters and admirers, Councillor Ford died Tuesday at Mount Sinai Hospital following a battle with a rare and aggressive form of soft tissue cancer known as pleomorphic liposarcoma. Ford’s family released a brief statement: “With heavy hearts and […]
She hailed from Trelawny and he came outta Jeffrey Town, St. Mary, Jamaica, and they immigrated to Canada in the sixties, two souls who spent 48 glorious years together. Fay Hyacinth Conville is remembered for her priceless work in Canada in the nursing field for close to 40 years as she volunteered with the Jamaican […]
He oozed love for country, be it politics, culture or servant leadership. The community’s beloved Selwyn Bartholomew Joseph – known as Selo – passed away peacefully at home on Feb. 5, surrounded by his loved ones. Born in Trinidad and Tobago on Oct. 23, 1939, Joseph was the devoted husband of Suzanne Joseph for almost […]
His Holiness Swami Vidyanandaji Maharaj, a recipient of the national award of Guyana, the Arrow of Achievement, has died. He was 79. Thousands from various parts of the world converged at the Cove and John Ashram, East Coast Demerara in Guyana to pay tribute to Swamiji, the first ordained Hindu monk of the Bharat Sevashram […]
