CALGARY, Alberta – While the sun-and-sand landscape of Cuba is mostly unchanged for Canadians, Geoff Freeborn and a group of U15 baseball players from Alberta will soon experience the new, progressive ways of the Caribbean island some 150 km off the Florida coast. Alongside ambassadors Devon White, a former Toronto Blue Jays centre fielder, and […]
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 […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – As Barbados signed two treaties – one an extradition agreement – with China, it was revealed that law enforcement authorities in the island earlier this year assisted in the recent arrest of two Chinese fugitives for whom the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) had issued warrants. While he gave no details about […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Brazil is the newest member country of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). It is the CDB’s 28th member and the fourth non-borrowing regional member, joining Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela in that category. The announcement was made at the CDB’s first Board of Directors meeting for 2016, earlier this month. “We are […]
ANDREW, Jamaica – This week, the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation handed over a cheque valued at $55 million to the Bustamante Hospital for Children in St Andrew. The money represents proceeds from the Shaggy and Friends Concert held on the lawns of Kings House in January. Businessman Kenneth Benjamin, chairman of the hospital, said […]
Prominent Trinidad and Tobago-born businessman Tony Chankar of The Printing Press is proud to announce that his daughter Nishani is now a female head at Trinity College at U of T. “Today my daughter made us proud one more time,” he said. “After being awarded two scholarships at the University of Toronto in the past […]
HAVANA, Cuba – U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to restore ties with Cuba may have given him a revered spot in the heart of many Cubans. Crowds lined the roads here to catch a glimpse of the presidential motorcade: en route to a baseball game between U.S. and Cuban teams, thousands spilled into the streets […]
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 […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The government is moving to revive its railway service. Minister of Transport and Mining Mike Henry says he’s exploring a public-private partnership. The minister said that Jamaica, in adopting a modern day integrated multi-modal transport system, of which the railway is a key component, would be embracing the reality of the changing […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The latest edition of the UN World Happiness Report says one Caribbean island is at the top: Puerto Rico. Yes, Puerto Rico: despite its crippling economic crisis, the island was the top-ranked place on the list from the Caribbean. Puerto Rico was ranked 15th in the world, just ahead of […]
