By Ben Torres Calypso Joe, Antigua and Barbuda’s first Road March King (1970) and its 1971 Calypso Monarch, took his audience on a delightful trip down memory lane on Friday night at a “cultural evening ” at the Chelsea Eaton hotel in Toronto to mark his country’s 35th anniversary of its independence. Accompanying himself on […]
By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight Female suicide bombings appeared on the political scene about 30 years ago. The first most commonly cited instance of modern FSBs took place in South Lebanon in 1985. Since then, the number of female suicide bombings grew, with over 300 women embarking on suicide missions in Lebanon, Sri […]
By W. Andy Knight In February 2006, my son and I attended my grandmother’s funeral in Barbados. The day we were heading back to Canada, we ran into Pirates of the Caribbean star, Keira Knightley, in the Grantley Adams airport. Naturally, my 16 year old son wanted a photo with Keira and I obliged. In […]
Family members from Canada, the United States, England and Barbados got together in Trinidad on Sunday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Viola Rochester-Doyle. In picture, Mrs. Rochester-Doyle with her son, Eddison, former Chief Financial Officer of the Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten […]
By Jasminee Sahoye By Jasminee Sahoye The 11th Annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival under the theme, ‘Caribbean Love’ wrapped up on Wednesday evening following the sold out Canadian screening of Bazodee, a new style Bollywood musical with a distinctly Caribbean island flavour. It’s set on the vivid, colourful twin islands of Trinidad and […]
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is currently drafting a new policy on racial profiling. This policy will help organizations, legal decision-makers and affected community members to better identify, address and prevent racial profiling as racial discrimination under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. This was revealed by the OHRC’s Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane, in its 2015-2016 […]
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 […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former radio and TV producer, presenter and actor Holly Betaudier (Holly B) passed away peacefully at his home last Sunday night. He turned 91 on Jan. 27. Betaudier saw all of his children within the last month and a half. On his dad’s passing, his son Holly Jr. said: “He’s […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Two Caribbean countries have walked away with top awards at the Chelsea Flower Show. Grenada and Barbados both took home gold after impressing judges with their exhibits. The display, This Place Barbados, highlighted the country’s landscape by illustrating each parish through an arrangement of flowers and shrubbery. The Barbados Association of Flower […]
BELIZE CITY, Belize – The Caribbean’s indigenous people have called to be given a seat at the political table so as to safeguard their rights to their ancestral lands and resources. The call for political representation for the minority first peoples of the region is one of a slew of recommendations on health, education, […]
