I asked eight immensely talented, successful and highly motivated community artists to give their impressions of the importance of February being designated Black History Month. Here is what four said in their own words (part 1 appeared in the Feb. 18 Camera). Julian Taylor (musician) (Taylor is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the band […]
We must NOT agree that Carnival is debauched, or that it is going to die. Here is why: Who would have thought that we could devise a war, a stage, a gayelle, sans stick, sans knife, sans guns? Just sans humanite. A wargame of wit. Dramatic, feisty, enthralling, full of play, bringing the audience into […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Raymond Tim Kee is no longer mayor of Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city. A week after making controversial comments after the murder of a Japanese Asami Nagakiya, a pannist who visited the twin-island republic for Carnival, Tim Kee handed in the resignation he had announced over the weekend he would […]
If you are willing to recognize it, you may actually know many persons who are friends of truth. Over the last week or two, I have been enjoying the intellectual generosity of Harry and Rose, two close friends who introduced me to the truth according to Eduardo Galeano, a very entertaining writer, a hard-hitting political […]
Sometimes controversial Deputy Chief Peter Sloly quit the Toronto Police Service yesterday. Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) issued a press release captioned “Toronto Police Services Board Announces Resignation of Deputy Chief Peter Sloly.” His resignation is effective yesterday, Feb. 10, ending 27 years of distinguished service to the City of Toronto and its residents. During […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Just as the heart was groaning under the weight of yet another foreign franchise coming to serve us coffee, in floats Ras Nijinsky to turn the imperial order upside down before sending it forth, unrecognizable to itself in ras and drag. This Minshall Ras Mas is, indeed, a high Mas, […]
Talented Canadians of Caribbean origin are dominating this year’s JUNO nominations. The annual musical lovefest awards show will be held in Calgary April 3 at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and broadcast partner CTV announced on Tuesday the 45th JUNO celebrations will spread over March 28-April 3. Nominated for […]
Fresh from his trip to India, Ontario Opposition Leader Patrick Brown introduced himself to the Caribbean and Black media corps at Queen’s Park. Conservative Leader Brown, along with MPP Ted Arnott, who extended an invitation to the Black History Month reception, was a hit with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed Brown as “Patrick […]
I was looking for background on singer James Fountain from Atlanta, Georgia, who in 1976 had a minor hit with a track Cee Lo Green could have scribbled, Seven Day Lover, and found nothing but empty space across the Internet other than William Bell produced for his small independent label, Cream. Frustrated, I dug deeper […]
Some US$10 billion is remitted to the Caribbean annually but weaker currencies in relation to the Greenback and lower oil prices are restricting the ability of many migrants to send money back to family and friends, according to the World Bank’s migration and development report. With the Canadian dollar hovering around 70-71 cents to the […]
