Tessanne, Sizzla hit Billboard

Tessanne Chin scored her first Billboard entry since 2014, with the ballad Love Suicide which debuts at No. 30 on the Adult R&B Airplay chart. Love Suicide, released on Chin’s Chinita Entertainment label, is the first song by a Jamaican artist to make that Billboard list. It was written by Blu Jane, whose credits include […]

Jamaican model sues Trump biz

NEW YORK CITY – A model suing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s modelling agency will find out later this month if her $225,000 case can proceed. Jamaica-born Alexia Palmer is accusing Trump Model Management – the talent agency founded by the billionaire businessman in Manhattan in 1999 – of racketeering, breach of contract, mail fraud […]

Group seeks to empower Islands women

In their quest to connect and empower women, a group has formed Caribbean Women’s Society (CWS), a not-for-profit registered organization, founded by Camille Kerr. If you are a successful Caribbean woman in the fields of financial planning, self-acceptance / self-confidence / self-esteem, relationships, health, fitness, career planning, stress management, adult education, etc., and ready to […]

The view from Peña Pobre

I just spent three weeks at a Casa Particular in Habana Vieja (Old Havana), Cuba. A casa particular is a bed breakfast and an example of the fast growing industries in Cuba since the thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations. My B&B was a comfortable room with hot and cold shower and located in a typical Havana […]

Afrofest relegated to one day over noise

The Caribbean and Black communities are circulating a petition over the City of Toronto restricting Afrofest from a two-day event to a one day “do you thing in the park.” Afrofest and Caribbean cultural proponents are demanding a return to the two-day event, including Trinidad and Tobago’s Muthadi who is drumming out the message “We […]

Remembering Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan

With the future of Guyana weighed and found wanting through a backward-ever mentality by the current administration, members of the Guyana Diaspora will converge at Twilight Family Restaurant March 20 at 1 p.m. to reflect, tell personal stories and share ideas for a forward-ever Guyana, in memory of  Freedom Fighter Dr. Cheddi Jagan. “Dr. Cheddi […]

Guyana jails a prisoner of inertia

Guyana’s five prisons are a long-standing, serious mess. That’s not news. The nation’s penal system is long overdue for an overhaul but mostly due to political inertia by various governments, it does not happen. Unfortunately, that’s not news either. What is news, making ugly headlines worldwide, was the recent Camp Street Prison riot in Georgetown […]

A peek backstage with a professional dancer

A sold-out performance brought the audience to its feet with loud applause and cheers at the end of each segment at the opening night of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at Sony Centre for the Performing Arts last Friday night. The audience was obviously thrilled with the different segments which showcased a mixture of choreography […]

An Islands woman on Canadian money?

As Canada was celebrating International Women’s Day, Canadians were asked to nominate a woman to appear in the 2018 bank note issue. And already there is interest in the Caribbean Diaspora to have one of their own in this historic and iconic move. “A Canadian woman will be featured on the very first of the […]