Tobago-born actors Winston Duke and Dominique Jackson are raising their stock with new TV roles. Duke and Jackson will both be appearing in new shows on screens in the near future. Duke, who broke out with his role as M’baku in the ‘Black Panther’ and Avengers movies and in the Jordan Peele thriller ‘Us’, will […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s Hummingbird population has just expanded by one with the recent addition of a new species. The glittering-throated Emerald, Amazilia Fimbriata, was discovered on October 8 at Yerrete, a Hummingbird attraction in the Maracas Valley, in the Northern Range of Trinidad. Theodore Ferguson, who owns the facility with his wife, Gloria, said the […]
The Tobago Tourism Agency Ltd (TTAL) has announced a strategic move to increase visitor arrivals to destination Tobago. TTAL said it has engaged European travel specialist, Boomerang Reisen, to sell the island with a digitally-focused approach. At ITB Berlin held in March of this year, one of the Tobago Tourism Agency’s objectives was to reinforce […]
Recently the Jamaican Canadian Centre played host to an exciting event where the Caribbean community, along with the Toronto’s first Africentric School, celebrated the retirement of their principal Mr. Luther Brown. The evening was hosted by actor Marcia Brown and the guest include Lloyd Wilks, Consul General of Jamaica in Toronto, singer Jay Douglas, along […]
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas – Hurricane Dorian has left parts of tourism-dependent Bahamas in ruins and relief officials were preparing for an unfolding humanitarian crisis with the scale of the catastrophe only beginning to emerge. Aerial video recorded over the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island showed mile upon mile of flooded neighbourhoods, pulverized buildings, upturned boats and […]
“El perro peruano sin pelo” is what they call the Peruvian hairless dog with its wrinkly leather skin and sparse patches of hair. A few decades ago the breed was on the brink of extinction and in 2000 the Peruvian government declared the bald dogs part of the country’s cultural heritage. A year later, it […]
There have been reactions of dismay to the death of Jamaican, Clive Peck, who was one of three United Nations workers killed in a bomb attack in Libya last Saturday. Mr. Peck, originally from Smithville in Clarendon, died after a bomb-laden vehicle exploded outside a shopping mall in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi. Mr. Peck […]
– film about Jamaican running phenom CaribanaTM Arts Group, Members of the public are invited to join the CaribanaTM Arts Group, The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and writer-director Storm Saulter for an exclusive preview of Saulter’s coming-of-age drama, Sprinter — executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith — about a Jamaican track-and-field […]
Usain Bolt has officially joined other sports personalities in the music industry, through the launch of his dancehall rhythm, Olympe Rose. “The launch was a major success. We had a lot support from the music fraternity and great media support. Of course, give thanks to all who came to the launch. Just go out […]
After 33 years, Island Foods, a West Indian food institution, has closed its Parkdale location. Ruth Sawh, matriarch of Island Foods, said that it was not their decision; the building where the landmark restaurant at 1182 King St. W will be demolished to make way for two massive condo towers. Island Foods’ dates back to […]
