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. […]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Toni Morgan came out of Jane and Finch and graced Harvard, thanks to a crowd-funding bid that raised more than $95,000 to cover the fees for her masters of education and expenses. Now this once-homeless woman is offering her shoulders for other students out of Jane-Finch to climb on in an invitation […]
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 […]
By Jasminee Sahoye In a rare move for a diplomat relieved of their duties at an overseas mission, Guyana’s former high commissioner to Canada has taken a bold step by suing the Guyanese government for more than GYD$49 million, equivalent to more than CAD$300,000. According to an online news site in Guyana, Demerara Waves, […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – The UN food relief agency has committed to assisting 1.6 million people hit by droughts exacerbated by El Niño in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti and building resilience against future climatic shocks. Speaking at the end of visits to El Salvador and Guatemala to see the compounded impact of El […]
SOUFRIERE, St. Lucia – Anse Chastanet has introduced a special promotion for altar-bound couples who want to avoid some of the anxiety and expense associated with wedding ceremonies while enjoying one of the Caribbean’s most romantic locations. “We want people tying the knot to experience as much romance as possible without any of the stress,” […]
MIAMI, Florida – Soca on the Seas 2016 is carving out its own niche in the tourism, promotion and marketing of Trinidad and Tobago culture and entertainment. They are packaging it and taking it to new shores like never before. It is the first of a kind affair that brings together all the ingredients that make […]
Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite, the 27-year-old Barbados and West Indies allrounder, wrote himself into West Indies history books by smashing four consecutive sixes that carried the Windies to a four-wicket victory over England in the final of the World Twenty20 tournament last Sunday at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Brathwaite’s incredible allround performance also allowed the Caribbean side to become the first […]
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 […]
