Neethan Shan, NDP candidate in the upcoming provincial by-election for Scarborough-Rouge River, boarded a TTC bus from his home in the riding last Monday, then got on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the subway on a journey to Queen’s Park. For Shan, it was” not just another ordinary trip “by public transit. This time […]
Mrs. Clinton, does Black Lives Matter to you? Dear Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Congratulations to you as by now you would have secured the nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for President of the United States of America and congratulations too on your selection of Tim Kaine as your “Running-Mate.” I do have some concerns though […]
Mas’ man Anton Saldenah puts on the finishing touches on one of the elaborate pieces in the band Outta Africa . This band will be one of more than a dozen which will take part in Saturday’s grand parade of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.
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 […]
Carnival revellers took to the streets of Regina on Saturday for the 10th annual CariSask parade put on by the Saskatchewan Caribbean Canadian Association (SCCA). CariSask which is modelled after the Trinidad carnival, brought together people from various parts of the Caribbean community in the province of Saskatchewan. A large flatbed truck covered in the […]
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn is right. As she said on Thursday night at a public meeting in Toronto to discuss systemic racism, governments need to do more to battle discrimination. She also said that governments haven’t gone far enough to create an equitable society. Right again, Madam Premier. Then she went on to tell us […]
By Jasminee Sahoye A telecommunications company in the Caribbean is injecting some $1M over a five-year period into an incubator programme to help filmmakers from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora in North America further develop their skills. Canadian-born, John Reid, CEO of Flow, a broadcasting company, whose parent company is Cable and Wireless Communications, […]
Acclaimed Barbados-born author Austin Tom Clarke who died on June 26 last, was remembered at his funeral last Friday as a man whose life ” defies summation.” Delivering the eulogy at the Cathedral church of St. James in downtown Toronto, Rinaldo Walcott, an associate professor of sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto, […]
In a spectacular blaze of colour, under a blazing sun, Toronto Caribbean carnival 2016 was launched yesterday at Nathan Phillips Square. Officially opening the festival was Toronto Mayor John Tory. Onstage were more than 100 models in costume from no fewer than 12 mas’ bands as the rhythmic sounds of soca, the steelband and tassa […]
Trinidad-born Roger Mahabir, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tracker Networks Inc.of Toronto, a cyber-security and risk management firm, told graduates of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University that “there’s no magic to success. “But with endurance and perseverance, success is magical.” Addressing convocation last week, Mahabir who received from […]
