Stating that New York City is experiencing a “rebirth like no other,” after a year of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, the Brooklyn-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association (WIADCA) last Tuesday announced the launch of “The Rebirth of New York Carnival 2021.” The organization, the host of arguably the largest carnival parade in North America, […]
By Lincoln DePradine Eric Delfish, a longtime volunteer organizer of carnival celebrations in Toronto, is confident about the future of the masquerade and its return to the streets of the city. For a second straight year, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the cancellation of major carnival activities, including the popular street parade on Lakeshore Boulevard. […]
By Lincoln DePradine When, as expected, Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival returns to the streets of the city next, the festival will be under the leadership of new top-level management. Eddison Doyle, Chris Alexander and Joe Halstead, who all have been with the carnival organizing committee – the Festival Management Corporation (FMC) – since its inception […]
Veteran producer and bandleader Chetwin Stewart says he is confident there will be a Crop Over next year, but is putting Government on notice that if the festival is to be done at the customary high standard, industry players need to be given ample time to prepare. During an appearance on Nation News’ State Of […]
On July 16th our community lost one of its most passionate advocates for Black students. A citizen of Trinidad & Tobago, Vernon Farrell emigrated to Canada in 1965; completed his M.Ed. at University of Toronto; taught and was a principal in the North York Board of Education from which he retired as Principal of Brookview […]
To Trinidad and Tobago, Brother Resistance was much more than an artistic icon; he was a fount of cultural knowledge. With his passing at a private hospital on July 13 (he had been ailing for some time), the country has lost an elder of its musical artforms—calypso and soca, to be sure—but more specifically, its […]
She was inspired to write her first book, Adria The Carnival Princess, based on her own life experiences with the help and guidance of her mother. Ad’Ria is a model, actress, masquerader who loves going on adventures and taking her readers along for the journey. Carnival Princess begins on the day of Ad’Ria’s […]
By Stephen Weir If you are a David Rudder fan and have missed seeing “Sir David” perform during the pandemic, honk your horn this July 31st. And if you really want to hear some of the new material he has written over the past year or so, honk again and flash your high beams. On […]
Winston ‘Soso’ Lockhart, 69, one of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ greatest soca and calypso icons, died last Sunday from complications of kidney failure. In June of 2020, the Vincentian Cultural Ambassador suffered from a kidney failure and was placed on dialysis treatment, since then he was unable to work. There were several fundraising efforts […]
By Paulina O’Kieffe-Anthony and Ashley Abdul Whether you’re part of the Caribbean diaspora or not, everyone knows summer isn’t complete in Toronto without the Carnival season, in particular the Caribbean Carnival parade, formally known as Caribana. For many folks who immigrated to Canada from the Carribean islands, Caribana was a welcome taste of home […]
