So Eyes passed by the Africentric Alternative school in West Toronto recently and was greeted by excited students on their way home after their first day of classes in the new school term. Ah! memories of “small” days in Guyana growing up stupid under the Guyana flag but excited by things cultural -songs, poetry, dance […]
The Urban Rez Solutions launched last Thursday their ‘Just Think 1st Initiative’ to mitigate incidents of gun violence in Toronto,. Eyesers will recall that many moons ago, in this column Eyes called for the issue of gun violence to be put on the front burner, as our community was fixated on racial profiling/carding. It’s about […]
With Connector (Joel Davis), the Toronto Calypso Monarch), donned in a sexy dress singing ‘The Dress ’and up-skirting veteran performer Macomere Fifi last Sunday, it’s time for Eyes to reflect on Dr. Gordon Rohlehr’s : ‘Calypso and Society in pre-independence Trinidad.’ Ent? Methinks enthused Eyesers at the packed Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre were singing from […]
Last Saturday, Eyes took the opportunity to visit the Rita Cox’s Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection at the Malvern Library in Scarborough and borrowed a book: ‘Carnival Music in Trinidad , Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.’ The author, Shannon Dudley, first played in a steelband at Oberlin College in Trinidad and Tobago, and then worked as […]
Today I put the question to our Caribbean community: Do we have ” Common Ground”? If we do, where were our Caribbean community media representatives when Ontario’s Ombudsman Paul Dube released his historic report titled “A Matter of Life and Death” at Queen’s Park last Friday? Yes, the Eyes Guy was the only community media […]
So de Eyes Guy will be celebrating, oops, covering Guyana’s flag raising ceremony at Toronto City Hall today (May 26), marking their independence: an independence of illusion! Have we achieved economic freedom, as we dance and wave under a Big Flag in Guyana? What a country, economically positioned next to Haiti, from a breadbasket nation […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyesers, kindly allow the Eyes Guy to put his theological hat on in light of the Trumpeting, as in “when the Trumpet of the Lord shall sound” – or that Donald de duck dude – and the church, guns and Bible prosperity theology mentality in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. […]
“On the lips of every loyal Guyanese of every race and in the hearts of the oppressed, this name (Cheddi Jagan) has become the banner behind which tramp the revolutionary masses of our country to battle and Victory! Eusi Kwayana (Sidney King) penned that forward in 1952 to Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s pamphlet Fight for Freedom. […]
A concerned Guyanese Diaspora and parts of the Caribbean family are witnessing daily violent crimes and curtailment of freedom of the press in their native land. Among the more recent atrocities, a Canadian-connected family of an elderly husband and wife rice farmers were killed as their home burned to the ground. Then a young man […]
The Eyes Guy is all set to grace the 4th Annual Matty Jae Youth Foundation “All Wear White Affair” fundraiser, come Friday, April 29, at La Creole Restaurant, 810 St. Clair Ave. W. In the name of mental health, All Wear White Affair founder Woodney Pierre welcomed the good news Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has […]
