MIAMI – Trinidad and Tobago is the Caribbean National Culinary Team of the Year. The team won top honors in the finale of the 2018 Taste of the Caribbean culinary competition at the Hyatt Regency in Miami last Thursday evening, after also winning the Bartender, Best Non Alcoholic Drink and Beef categories. Trinidadians in winners’ […]
GENEVA, Switzerland– Antigua and Barbuda is losing hope that “a sense of justice and fairness would prevail” in its 15-year dispute with the United States. And now it may ask the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to appoint a mediator in its 15-year contention with the United States, the twin-island nation’s Ambassador Sir […]
By Stephen Weir The United States administration of President Donald Trump has come under fire for the separation of children from their parents at the Mexican border in the current crackdown on undocumented migrants. As the subject becomes a hot button topic in Canada, a new children’s book is creating interest. It too is about […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) says a signed copy of one of the first books written by the late Dr Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett-Coverley has been discovered at a second-hand book sale in the United Kingdom (UK). The book titled Anancy Stories and Jamaica Dialect Poems, which was written in 1944 […]
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua – House Speaker Sir Gerald Watt is alleging that former speaker D. Giselle Isaac used an expletive gesture in the House of Assembly last week and gave the middle finger to demonstrate what he says she did. Sir Gerald gave the middle finger during a live broadcast of the Lower House in which he spent […]
By Stephen Weir If you pulled back the drapes at many Toronto events, you would find 52-year Yvette Martin pulling the strings, firing up the musicians and cueing the talent. This weekend, for the first time in many years, the Jamaican Canadian actress is going to be on this side of the curtain joking about […]
Keith Mitchell, the recently re-elected Prime Minister of Grenada, told a gathering of Grenadians in Toronto “the good news” about the deposits of oil and gas recently discovered in the southern waters off Grenada. Addressing a Town Hall meeting on his recent flying visit to Toronto, Mitchell reported that the Russian company, GPG, carried out […]
Karl Subban, the Jamaica-born Canadian educator, author and hockey dad to National Hockey League (NHL) stars, will receive the 2018 Cultural Award at the DAREarts Leadership gala to be held the Carlu in Toronto on May 10. The annual gala “celebrates the power of the arts to ignite change in the lives of marginalized […]
A delegation from the Toronto Dominican community met recently with Mayor John Tory to present its proposal for the renaming of Caledonia Park. The delegation wants the City of Toronto to call it the Santo Domingo Baseball Park. And, according to Yandira Feliz, Chair of the Toronto Dominican Renaming Committee, its proposal is “being considered.” […]
Jamaica’s Junior Development gymnasts established several gold ribbon performances at the Strathcona Challenge in Edmonton over the weekend. The young gymnasts easily shook off their pre-tournament jitters as they opened Friday’s first day in good nick, courtesy of the Level Three team which won in all four age group categories. Victoria Lewis, the youngest member […]
