Brother Marcus stays back in Toronto to get Carnival Nationz ready for Carnival 2022 This is the first year that Marcus Eustace did not enter a costume in this year’s Trinidad Carnival, which ended last Tuesday. M Eustace has won the King in Trinidad ten times in the last twenty years. The well regarded […]
A baby died in her mother’s arms after the Trinidad and Tobago coast guard fired on a boat carrying migrants from Venezuela, authorities said last Sunday. In a statement Trinidad Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley: “I just spoke to the Vice President of the Government of Venezuela. I conveyed our deepest sympathy to the family […]
Joan Bernadette Walcott Alexander was born on December 19th 1938 in Trinidad. She grew up in San Juan Quaisay opposite the market, and migrated to Canada in 1968. She lived in Hamilton where she married Albert Alexander before moving to Toronto Joan died on February 5th 2022 of Esophageal Cancer at home in Markham in […]
A baby died in her mother’s arms after the Trinidad and Tobago coast guard fired on a boat carrying migrants from Venezuela, authorities said last Sunday. In a statement Trinidad Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley: “I just spoke to the Vice President of the Government of Venezuela. I conveyed our deepest sympathy to the family […]
Born in 1922, Theresa Scott-Frampton, the first of 7 children was born on January 23, 1922, to Lincoln and Margaret Scott in Trinidad and Tobago. After receiving her general education she attaned her Standard of Nursing from the Port of Spain General Hospital as a trained nurse and licensed midwife. She worked as a nurse […]
In 1938, a brilliant young Black scholar at Oxford University wrote a thesis on the economic history of British empire and challenged a claim about slavery that had been defining Britain’s role in the world for more than a century. But when Eric Williams – who would later become the first prime minister of Trinidad […]
Qаdіrа Jасkѕоn is a sосіаl worker аnd lаwуеr and is thе оnlу cаndіdаtе аррrоvеd to run for thе Ontario Lіbеrаl Pаrtу nomination іn Sсаrbоrоugh -Sоuthwеѕt. As the оwnеr оf Jаxоn Lаw Professional Corporation. “I am еxсіtеd tо lаunсh mу саndіdасу fоr thе Ontаrіо Liberal candidate in Scarborough – Southwest. As a ѕmаll-buѕіnеѕѕ оwnеr, mоthеr, wife, […]
by Clevil James In 1964, The Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband performed at the Moral Re-Armament Conference at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Maybe it was serendipity that caused Bahamian born American actor Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) to be present at one of the band’s performances while he was visiting his daughter, who was attending the conference. He […]
Travel protocols are ever-changing in this climate and so it’s pretty important to stay on your toes about what each country requires. With many planning to either return to Trinidad and Tobago or visit for the first time, we’ve compiled a list of things that you should know and prepare for when flying into the […]
By Mansa B. K. Musa Chances are, many people may have heard the ancestral saying that, “We become what we eat.” Or this other slice of Wisdom: “What’s destroying many people nowadays is not what they eat or drink, but what is in those products that are killing them.” As many of us celebrated […]
