Adam Montgomery and Alan Ernest think they may have located the gravestone of one of nearly 80,000 people in the Victoria Lawn Cemetery in St. Catharines. The graveyard was established in 1856. Montgomery and Ernest are part of the Salem Chapel Underground Railroad Cemetery project, which searches for the forgotten graves of former slaves who […]
Former Pan Trinbago president Patrick Arnold who died in Tobago on May 9 last, is being remembered as a man who changed the face and fate of pan and its players. Pan Trinbago’s vice president Keith Simpson said: “He was a good and honest man who changed the face of the movement by ensuring respect […]
‘A big hole left in the community’ Egbert Gaye, the founder and managing editor of Montreal Community Contact, died last Sunday. He was 67. Gaye ran the paper since its launch in 1992. He was also a regular columnist on Montreal radio station CJAD. In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday, Montreal Community Contact […]
A 25-year-old man is Antigua and Barbuda’s first murder victim for 2023. Roudi Shamarly was shot in broad daylight by an armed robber at Pick ‘N Mix Mart on DeSouza Road last Monday. Shamarly was in the adjacent Chicken Hub and reportedly rushed into the Mart where he was shot at point-blank range. He was […]
Obituary Listen to this Obit now: Edward Oscar Brathwaite’s was known to his many friends and acquaintances as warm, sociable and humorous. His comrades titled him as a change-maker, a man of perseverance and conviction. Oscar passed away on May 6, 2023 in Toronto. Brathwaite was born in 1940 in the seaside village of Penny […]
Mansa Musa, an entrepreneur, talented tailor, and spiritual advisor, died last Wednesday, May 3. at the Centenary Hospital in Scarborough. He had been suffering from cancer. Musa was born on February 27, 1953, in Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. He grew up there and migrated to Canada in 1970. Musa is a popular entrepreneur who operated […]
Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor and civil rights activist who broke down racial barriers, has died aged 96. As well as performing global hits such as Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), winning a Tony award for acting and appearing in numerous feature films, Belafonte spent his life fighting for a variety of causes. He bankrolled […]
Listen to this story now By Lincoln DePradine On March 1, on Victoria Street in Toronto, a group of musicians hosted an event titled, “Calypso with Pimento’’. It was a birthday celebration and tribute to Harry Belafonte, the late Jamaican-American performer, actor, humanitarian, and civil rights and political activist. “He made history in so many […]
By Stephen Weir Harry Belafonte, the legendary musician, actor, and civil rights activist, passed away yesterday at the age of 96. His death has sent shockwaves through the Canadian Jamaican community, which he had long championed. Belafonte was born in the USA in 1927 to Caribbean immigrants. He and his brother spent part of […]
Rasheed Sultan-Khan, founder of the Trinidad and Tobago 50plus & Seniors Association of Canada, died at his home in Toronto on Saturday. He was 94 – just one day shy of his 95th birthday. His son, Aleem, said he died of degenerative heart disease. Trinidad-born Rasheed Sultan-Khan came to Canada with his wife and five […]
