Unless the Festival Management Committee (FMC) can run Carnival better, it’s time the community reclaimed the event, a veteran bandleader says. Michael Williams, leader of De Regulars Arts and Cultural Group for the past 35 years said FMC must stop trying to control the Toronto Mas Band Association (TMBA). “What is the mandate of the […]
As always the opinions in this article are mine and mine alone. Who am I? Just your average So n So. This week I decided to do it a little differently with a top 15. I will do this from time to time because there are many questions being asked and some can be […]
Jamaica-born Dr. Maurice Bygrave, a founder of CARIBANA, will present a film version of his play When Will I be Loved which focuses on the fundamental principles of the Masonic Order. This insight into what some in the Caribbean community consider a closed door society will be presented at Toronto Onyx Lions Club Den, 875 […]
Trouble has erupted among those tasked with conducting the official inquiry into the fatal riots at Guyana’s Camp Street Prison in Georgetown. In a dispute that spilled over into Facebook, Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters – who is representing the police and prison services at the Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths at […]
Canadian-born of Guyanese and Jamaican parents, Patricia J. Jaggernauth is among the 15 Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) 34th-annual Harry Jerome Awards recipients announced last Tuesday. The formal presentation is slated for April 23 at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. Jaggernauth, the recipient of the media award, seen since June on CP24 as […]
The Saint Lucia Diaspora celebrated their 37th anniversary of Independence last Saturday at the Brighton in Scarborough with a prayer by Joan Herby: “Heavenly Father we ask you For guidance and protection Upon our beloved land, Saint Lucia, Cradle it in your arms Like Mother nurturing her babe.” Those words and “Justice, truth and charity, […]
An invitation is extended to the Caribbean Diaspora to wend your way to Windies Restaurant and Sports Bar, West-Indian drive-in, takeout and catering at 3330 Lawrence Ave. E. for the grand re-opening with lots of samplings: Kraken Rum, Windies Rum Punch and Three Flavours Vodka. Guests are invited to again enjoy the results of 15 […]
With the goal of creating a “world-class sport system”, the province is launching Game ON Sports Plan to “support our athletes from the playground to the podium,” Michael Coteau announced. The minister of tourism, culture and sport and formerly minister responsible for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Toronto, told The Camera that […]
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world” – P. Pullman Natasha Charles, Canadian-born and Trinidad-raised winner of the 2015 Alice Kane Storytelling Award, wants the community’s help with her project Living Archive, a series of oral storytelling interviews or conversations in the Trinidad and Tobago community. “The […]
