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 […]
Four boxes of sports supplies are on their way to Tranquillity Government Secondary School in Port-of-Spain – thanks to the school’s Alumni Association in Toronto. The donated supplies which include uniforms are for the school’s boys and girls football, netball and basketball teams. Ronald Roberts, secretary of the Tranquillity Alumni Association, told the Caribbean Camera […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Oscar Wailoo Playing an Al Foster arrangement of Kerwin Du Bois’ “Unforgettable,” Pan Fantasy last Friday successfully defended its title and became the first Five -Peat champion in the history of Ontario Steelpan Association’s Pan Alive Competition. Its total of 258 points was 10 more than second placed Afropan, who beat Salah’s Steelpan Academy […]
As we approach next year’s milestone when “our” carnival here in Toronto will see its fiftieth year of existence, we need to ask ourselves whether we are proud of what our carnival has become and of where it is headed. In fact, it is unfortunate, some say it is a disaster that, in the […]
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.
When the Black Daddies Club (BDC) was established in 2007, it lacked a platform to voice its opinions and “share the ‘brotherhood.’ ” Today its voices are ” going places.” Through a partnership with Caribbean Tales, a company committed to building a global community between Canadians and like-minded artists, cultural entrepreneurs and community builders throughout […]
Hundreds of concerned citizens, including black activists, showed up last Thursday at the first public meeting called by the recently-formed Ontario anti-racism directorate to discuss issues related to systemic racism. Addressing the meeting, amid some heckling, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn told the gathering at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park that ” this is not a […]
