The Montreal Canadiens yesterday traded P.K. Subban, formerly of Toronto, to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber to complete one of the NHL’s biggest trades in recent history. The Predators gain nearly four years – Subban is 27 and Weber will be 31 in August – and Subban’s energetic puck-moving style, which is a better fit […]
Soca superstar Machel Montano has taken his fast-paced jump up music to the White House. Strumming a cuatro, Montano, who is considered Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artiste, sang his 2009 hit ” Dance with you” to a delighted audience at the home of the President of the United States. He was one of several […]
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. […]
Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube yesterday called on the Ministry of Community Safety and CorrectionalServices to save lives by requiring police to use de-escalation techniques in conflict situations before resorting to lethal force. .Dube was speaking at the release yesterday at Queen’s Park of “A Matter Of Life and Death,” an investigation into the direction provided […]
Trinidad-born Roger Mahabir, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tracker Networks Inc.of Toronto, a cyber-security and risk management firm, told graduates of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University that “there’s no magic to success. “But with endurance and perseverance, success is magical.” Addressing convocation last week, Mahabir who received from […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The former president of the United Nations General Assembly and Antigua and Barbuda’s permanent representative to the UN, John Ashe, has died before facing trial for tax fraud in a scandal that involved him allegedly taking more than US$1.3 million in bribes while in his UN post. He died of a […]
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 […]
Austin Clark was born Barbados in 1934 and then went to Canada, in 1955. While in Canada he attended a university. Clark has worked as a broadcaster, a professor, and a civil rights leader. His works exhibit the poverty of peasants in Barbados and his immigrant experiences to Canada. Austin Clark died today in […]
Congratulations to one and all! This is the time of the year when we celebrate the successes of all those persons, particularly our students of Caribbean ancestry, who have just completed their respective courses of study at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. A key aspect of our celebrations is our focus on using these […]
