CANADA-WIDE CONTEST Next summer the Toronto Caribbean carnival will celebrate its golden anniversary – 50 years of mas.’ The Caribbean Camera believes that this special cultural milestone should be remembered in a special way and we believe that a postage stamp should be designed to mark the event, And so we are announcing our Caribana […]
The Canadian government has set aside $4.58 million in humanitarian aid for Haiti and other Caribbean countries affected by Hurricane Matthew. That amount includes $300,000 for the Red Cross to provide emergency care and $280,000 for drinking water and child-friendly hygiene kits. Much of the federal aid is earmarked to help Haiti in the aftermath […]
By Gerald V. Paul Clarissa Riehl, Guyana’s recently appointed High Commissioner to Canada, called on Guyanese ” in the Diaspora” to promote their native land ” as a place to do business, to generate industries and to relax.” She was speaking at Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary Awards Gala on Saturday at the Brighton Convention and […]
Family members from Canada, the United States, England and Barbados got together in Trinidad on Sunday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Viola Rochester-Doyle. In picture, Mrs. Rochester-Doyle with her son, Eddison, former Chief Financial Officer of the Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten […]
By Gerald V. Paul Canadian Olympic sprinter Andre De Grasse was honoured on Sunday by the City of Markham with a grand Homecoming celebration at which an announcement was made by Mayor Frank Scarpitti that a street will be named after him. Wearing his three Rio Olympic medals , De Grasse, a resident of Markham, […]
Pan Fantasy of Toronto placed fourth at the Panorama in New York on the weekend. The five-time winner of the Toronto Pan Alive competition is now celebrating 30 years of pan music.
By Gerald V. Paul Marcia Annisette, an associate professor of accounting at York University, called on fellow nationals of Trinidad and Tobago in Toronto to make a greater contribution to the development of the two-island nation. ” W e are not giving back enough. We are punching way below our weight,” she said in an […]
Jamaica reviewing Diaspora Policy – foreign minister Addressing fellow nationals in Toronto on Saturday, Jamaica’s foreign affairs minister Kamina Johnson-Smith spoke of the need for a “ united Diaspora” that includes “ all members of the community and is galvanised around common interests and objectives.” Johnson-Smith was speaking at a gala and dinner to celebrate […]
Last Saturday, Eyes took the opportunity to visit the Rita Cox’s Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection at the Malvern Library in Scarborough and borrowed a book: ‘Carnival Music in Trinidad , Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.’ The author, Shannon Dudley, first played in a steelband at Oberlin College in Trinidad and Tobago, and then worked as […]
