Editorial When The Caribbean Camera was launched in 1990, we had some community papers in Canada that were seen as Black. The Caribbean Camera carved out a space that we could occupy – Black but without a “race” label. That created a problem for us. Many in Canada still do not fully understand the region […]
By Stephen Weir Mascots can go as bare as they dare at the world’s largest indoor lake, but all other performers have to wear bathing suits. The Toronto International Boat Show is on until Sunday afternoon down at Exhibition Place. Hundreds of new boats are on display, and of course, there is Lake Wow. The […]
By Lincoln DePradine Ontario, beginning next year, is introducing curriculum changes for kindergarten students to make the province and Canada a “global leader’’ by “emphasizing literacy and math skills in the classroom’’, education minister Stephen Lecce has said. “We, as Canadians, have to do better. We need to be the gold standard. And, it is […]
A statue of Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, Canada’s first Black Member of Parliament and the first Black person to hold a viceregal position in Canada, was unveiled at Queen’s Park last Sunday. The son of Caribbean immigrants, Alexander who was born in Toronto, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. He […]
Pluto Shervington, born Leighton Shervington, died after being admitted to hospital in Miami, Florida last Friday. He was 73. Born Leighton Keith Shervington on 13 August 1950, in Kingston, Jamaica, Shervington was a gifted reggae musician, vocalist, engineer, and producer. He gained his first experience when he started singing with Tomorrow’s Children. In 1967, their […]
The Black History Month event will be staged in Ottawa, Halifax and Toronto In a celebration of Black History Month, two exceptional Canadian musicians of Caribbean descent, Rashaan Rori Allwood and Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, are set to dazzle audiences with their multi-media performance titled “Unyielding Roots.” This powerful presentation of original compositions aims to reflect […]
Nerene Virgin was born in 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario, and traces her roots to escaped Maryland slave Thomas John (Howard) Holland. Virgin was a Canadian journalist, an actor, educator, author and television host, best known for her role on the children’s television series Today’s Special. She died last Thursday at the age of 77. In […]
Wes Hall garners great respect from the Caribbean community, as well as the larger society, for conjuring success in life and in business despite hash beginnings. His story begins in quite humble circumstances in Jamaica, where he and 13 siblings were raised by their grandmother in a tin shack. He said that pulling himself up […]
“Haiti is not hopeless”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Monday during a meeting addressing the multiple crises besetting the Caribbean nation, alongside the presidents of the UN Security Council and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Dennis Francis, a veteran diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago, said he had returned from a visit […]
Energy Minister Vince Henderson says the Government of Dominica is ready to begin construction on a 10-kilowatt geothermal power plant to supplement the supply of electricity from the Dominica Electricity Company (DOMLEC). The Dominica government is said to have invested nearly US$50 million, so far, in geothermal research and Henderson said, on a recent radio […]
