Karim Ouellet was born in Dakar, Senegal in 1984. He was adopted by Canadian diplomats at the age of one. When he was 15 his family returned to live in Quebec City. Ouellet learned to play the piano, percussion, and guitar as a child. He composed his first song when he was seven. He took […]
Trinidadian author and historian Michael Anthony died at his home in Port of Spain last Thursday. He was 93. In the mid-1950s Anthony left Trinidad to live in England where he worked at the Reuters News Agency and began his career as a writer. Anthony had more than 30 titles published, including novels, collections of […]
Former Trinidad and Tobago calypso monarch Denyse Plummer who declared in song that “Woman Is Boss,” died in Trinidad on Sunday. She was 69. She had been diagnosed with cancer. When Plummer made her calypso debut at Skinner Park in South Trinidad in 1986, the mixed-race artiste was pelted with toilet paper while onstage. But […]
Trinidadian author and historian Michael Anthony died at his home in Port of Spain last Thursday. He was 93. In the mid-1950s Anthony left Trinidad to live in England where he worked at the Reuters News Agency and began his career as a writer. Anthony had more than 30 titles published, including novels, collections […]
The steelpan communities in Trinidad & Tobago and Canada are mourning the passing of Joslynne Sealey. She was the daughter of noted Trinidad folklorist, the late Andrew Carr. Sealey built an impressive musical career which started as a student at Trinidad’s Bishop Anstey High School. At the biennial 1968 T&T Music Festival, she won the […]
Beverley “Bev” Salmon, Toronto’s first Black female city councillor, known for her advocacy for more inclusive practices within municipal government, died last Thursday at the North York General hospital. She was 92. Her son, Warren, told The Caribbean Camera that she died after a brief illness. Salmon was born in Toronto to a Jamaican father, […]
Calypsonian, ska, and rocksteady artist Lord Creator, best known for his hit song Kingston Town, later covered by UB40, died today (June 30). Born Kenrick Patrick, he was 87. “He died at 11 a.m, he hadn’t been feeling well for some time,” Mrs. Neseline Patrick, Lord Creator’s wife of 23 years, told DancehallMag. “He had […]
Barbados’ fourth Prime Minister Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford has died at the age of 86. The educator and diplomat was a veteran Democratic Labour Party politician who entered the political fray in 1964 and served the country for more than three decades. Before ascending to the highest political office on the death of Prime […]
Trinidad-born educator Lloyd McKell dies at 78 Trinidad-born educator Lloyd Jefferson McKell died at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto on Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. McKell came to Canada in 1967 to attend the University of Toronto and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. After graduating from […]
