In glorious sunshine at St. John’s Rehab Hospital in Rae Whistance Memory Gardens yesterday, a grateful and recovering Elissa Antonio cheerfully delivered an update on her recovery from injuries sustained in a 40-foot fall in Trinidad and Tobago. “I feel great. I’m able to lift both feet. And I feel very accomplished,” Antonio told members […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The head of the local Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Joseph Harris, is leading a petition seeking to “free” remand prisoners who have been behind bars longer than the maximum prison term they would have gotten if they had been found guilty of their crimes. The petition, circulated to priests and […]
Elissa Antonio’s medical recovery fund has grown to $62, 668 and, more good news, she’s managed to stand beside her hospital bed. The ongoing fundraising is important as it goes towards her medication and other expenses and to help her daughters Brianna and Moneque as she recovers. Recovery will take eight to 10 months. What […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Trafficked, the award winning film from Trinidad and Tobago, will make its European premiere at the 13th Festival International du Film Pan Africain de Cannes later this month. The Cannes Film Festival which will run from April 16 to 20 is considered the most prestigious film festival in the world. […]
Thanks to the generosity of strangers and a caring family and friends, Elissa Antonio is in a Toronto hospital healing and doing well, relatives said, after she accidently fell off a cliff in Trinidad and Tobago. To give Antonio, 40, time to recover in peace, the family asked that the hospital not be identified after […]
Trinidad and Tobago-born Ravina Budhooram has been identified as one of the young people killed in a Jane and Sheppard car crash, where two unidentified men also lost their lives. Twenty-one-year-old Budhooram’s Facebook page says she was a student at Seneca College. “Such a beautiful person you were Ravina Budhooram. You were the light in […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Horrified by news that their teacher Keston Mahabir had been abducted in broad daylight, students of Keston’s Educational Institute wept as they waited on news of his whereabouts. Fearful of hearing the worst, some students spent hours offering moral support to Mahabir’s siblings at their home at Pitiman Trace, McBean […]
Last Tuesday The Camera hooked up with Sstyles, fresh outta sweet T and T and the Canadian-born artist of the west end was down with it! “Music lives in my veins,” is tattooed on his arm. Nuff said? He believes in go big or go home so he was off the roots enjoying the precious […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – In Trinidad and Tobago’s first human trafficking case, a 55-year-old suspended police officer has been committed to stand trial on 13 charges of human trafficking and prostitution. Constable Valentine Eastman was found to have a case to answer at the end of a preliminary inquiry that was heard in camera […]
Trinidad and Tobago-born Gladys Myrtle Saunders was in good company recently as she gracefully enjoyed turning a sweet 100 years, a long, happy and full life. She credits her family and friends along with a kind heart and sharing love and building bridges as some of the things that keep her going. Gladys is known […]
