Louis Saldenah’s Mas-K-Club took no prisoners on Saturday night. The biggest band, with a legacy of winning that stretches back to the early days of Caribana, held a dramatic costume launch at the Chandi Banquet Hall in Scarborough in front an estimated crowd of over a thousand people. Sixteen sections with the theme of the […]
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told a convention of long- term care and retirement home professionals in Etobicoke yesterday that her government will “invest in care – not cuts.” “ All told, we’re investing more than $3.3 billion over the next three years to improve care for our seniors,” she said. Speaking at the “Together We Care” […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – In a scathing response to comments by Canada’s High Commissioner to Barbados Marie Legault, a Barbados Government minister said that foreign diplomats who show bias in their positions on Barbadian politics should be asked to leave the country immediately. Speaking at the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) branch meeting at Lester Vaughan Secondary […]
Trinidad-born Dr.Hedy Fry, Liberal Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre since 1993 and the longest serving female Canadian Member of Parliament, will be the keynote speaker today at a networking event in Trinidad at which #CaribbeanMenCan solidarity campaign will be launched. The High Commission for Canada in Port of Spain has teamed up with Interclub, […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison was among a sterling group of writers announced by Yale University on Wednesday as being the 2018 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight recipients, honoured for their literary achievement or promise, will receive a US$165,000 individual prize to support their writing. “This wonderful award will allow me […]
Thousands of women, many of them from the Caribbean community, descended on Nathan Phillip’s Square on Saturday for the Toronto Women’s March. The event marked the anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington at which millions rallied against the Donald Trump presidency, sexual assault and several other feminist issues. But with both provincial and municipal […]
By Aldwyn McGill Canada advanced to the semi-finals of the 2018 CONCACAF Under-20 Women’s Championship in Trinidad and Tobago, winning all three of their games and finished atop Group A. The offensive power of the Canadian team proved to be too much for Haiti, Costa Rica and host Trinidad and Tobago. Scoring hat tricks for […]
Trinidad – Retired judge Paula-Mae Weekes was elected President of Trinidad and Tobago on Friday by the Electoral College comprising members of the country’s House of Representatives and the Senate. She is the first woman President of the two-island nation and will be the only female President in the region once Chile’s Michelle Bachelet leaves office on March […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Given the existing contribution of the outsourcing sector to job creation in the Caribbean region, coupled with its potential for expansion, calls are being made for greater levels of priority to be given to the outsourcing sector. Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agencysaid more needs to be done by regional governments […]
Canada Soccer has named the 20 players who will represent Canada at the CONCACAF U-20 Women’s Championship in Trinidad and Tobago, which serves as the qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 to be held later in the year. The tournament running from January 17 to January 28 will see Canada, […]
