ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Ace opener Lendl Simmons blazed an imperious hundred as a dominant Trinidad and Tobago Red Force stormed to their first domestic 50-overs title in five years by crushing Guyana Jaguars by 152 runs in a lopsided final of the Regional Super50 Cup here on Saturday night. Behind Simmons’ pulsating career-best […]
NEW YORK – The father of Trindad-born rapper Nicki Minaj died on Saturday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver on Long Island. Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Mineola on Long Island at 6:15 p.m. on Friday when he was hit by a car that kept going, Nassau County police said. Mara,j, […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Opposition United National Congress (UNC) won three of five local government by-elections last week, wresting the Arima Central seat from the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM). The upset in the Arima Central district saw UNC candidate Sheldon Garcia emerging victorious over Dr. Juliet Henry Bernard of the PNM. The […]
TRAVEL Royal Caribbean cruises return to Trinidad and Tobago PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — After an absence of almost a decade, Royal Caribbean Cruises has put Trinidad and Tobago back on its itinerary. Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas will return to the ports of Port of Spain and Scarborough as part of the Southern […]
Trinidad-born Lydia Parris who worked as a banker in Toronto, for 39 years died at hospital in Ajax, Ontario on January 3 last after a battle wih colon cancer. She was 64. Parris who came to Canada in 1973, was widely known as a professional model ” who had built a portfolio that took her […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley has been discharged from hospital after undergoing angioplasty on Saturday The prime minister was reported to have been hospitalized on Friday after experiencing “discomfort” A brief statement from the Office of the Prime Minister on Sunday confirmed that he is now resting at […]
Retired Triniad-born educator Radcliffe Arthur Corbie died at the North York General hospital in Toronto on December 18 last. He was 87. His wife, Sharon, told The Caribbean Camera that he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and died a few days later. Corbie left Trinidad in 1957 for Canada to attend the University of British […]
By: Bianca Jacob-Stephenson Five years ago, veteran entertainer Elsworth James first began losing things, and then getting lost during walks around his Toronto neighborhood. Two years later, he faced a devastating diagnosis: dementia, a neurodegenerative condition that affects 50 million people worldwide. Now in the end-stage of the disease, James endures the ultimate loss, memories […]
SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad – A man from San Fernando, accused of raping his wife, was granted $100, 000 bail when his matter came up for hearing earlier this week. The 57-year-old father of three appeared virtually before Senior Magistrate Indrani Cedeno, charged with raping his wife last week. According to the prosecution, his 35-year-old wife […]
CARACAS, Venezuela – The Venezuelan government said on Sunday it had found 14 bodies after a ship carrying migrants bound for Trinidad and Tobago was wrecked en route. The government said in a statement that eleven bodies were found by a Coast Guard patrol on Saturday afternoon, and “today, following up on the events that […]
