By Jasminee Sahoye Founder and CEO of CaribbeanTales, Frances-Anne Solomon strongly believes its current 2016 film festival in Toronto- its 11th annual – has ” better content and cinematography.” She reported that opening night far exceeded expectations and that the Royal Theatre was sold out for the Canadian Premiere of Diary of a Bad Man […]
By Michael Lashley When the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival 2016 was launched last week, the full-length film featured on the opening night -“Diary of a Badman” – was a lot more than an action-packed thriller in which a badass policewoman goes undercover to nab a notorious drug dealer. The power of this film lies in […]
Letter to the Editor ‘Rouge area constituents were taken for a ride’ Dear Editor: I have been following the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection, as I lived in the area for ten years and still have ties there. I am wondering if I am the only person who sees a problem with the chain of events leading […]
By Gerald V. Paul Members of the Caribbean community holding dual citizenship will have to show a valid Canadian passport to enter Canada y when travelling by air, come late September. “A valid Canadian passport is the only reliable and universally accepted travel document that provides proof that you are a citizen and have the […]
By Gerald V. Paul As Panmasters Steel Orchestra, led by veteran pannist Tommy Crichlow, belted out ‘Solidarity Forever,’ 25,000 strong marched in Toronto’s Labour Day parade in which several groups from the Caribbean community were represented. Guyana-born Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, CLC, told The Caribbean Camera in an interview at the […]
Today we write with a heavy heart about what has come to be known as the Toronto Carnival. As mas’ aficionados look forward with great anticipation to the 50th anniversary of the festival next summer, the scenario now being played out by some aspirants for leadership in the running of the extravaganza is not a […]
By Jasminee Sahoye When the Black Daddies Club meets at its annual family and friends picnic on Sunday at Petticoat Creek Parkin Pickering, the major theme for discussion will be identifying strategies that Black parents can employ to support their children. Brandon Hay who founded the club in 2007, said theme was chosen because many […]
Jamaican farm workers who lost all their belongings in a fire which gutted their living quarters in Brant Country, Ontario on July 28 last, have high praise for donors who came to their assistance. After the fire,33 workers at Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation in Mt. Pleasant, were left with just the clothes […]
By Harold Hosein Summer 2016 will go down as one of the hottest in Ontario in the last 50 years.But there are still a few weeks of summer left. So we will have to wait until the end of that time to determine whether it is actually the hottest on record in the province. Memories, including […]
By Gerald V. Paul Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson , currently on a North American tour, met on Monday with farm workers in Mt. Pleasant, Ontario whose living quarters were gutted in a fire on July 28 last. Thirty-three workers from Jamaica assigned to Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation, […]
