This week’s question: With the alarming rate of violent crime, including murder, in Trinidad and Tobago, do you believe it is safe to visit the country for the Christmas season? Damian Sogren Master of Ceremonies Home is home.Things have changed and crime has escalated but it’s bad all over the […]
The Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten years, has announced the names of its new nine-member Board of (Directors. But no information about the FMC’s plans for the 2017 carnival was disclosed in a brief media release which was sent to the Caribbean Camera yesterday. […]
Viola Desmond, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre 70 years ago, will be the first woman other than the Queen to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote. Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Desmond will grace the […]
Dr. Eric Pierre, Honorary Consul General for Haiti in Toronto, (sixth from left) receives a ” big check” for $3,740 on behalf of Pierspective Entraide Huminataire, a Haitian-led charitable organization in Toronto, at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto. (From left) Alton Brooks – Director of Communications, Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA), JCA Board; Dr. Sylvanus […]
This week’s question: Should a judge who enters his courtroom wearing political paraphernalia such as a Donald Trump baseball cap be removed from the bench? Aneesa Oumarally The fundamental values that underscore our judicial system is that judges are independent and impartial. This means that even though every human being possesses a certain […]
The Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which is drafting plans to play the leading role the 50th anniversary of the Toronto Caribbean carnival next summer, is reported to be ” in emergency mode” as it gets ready for a membership meeting on Saturday. Up to press time last night, members of the CAG Board were in […]
For 24 hours non-stop, the walls of Daniel’s Spectrum in Toronto reverberated with the sounds of rhythmic drumming from the members of the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival (MIDF ), the Toronto Brazilian Samba band, TDot Batu and other organizations and individuals. Drummers of different skill levels and experience combined their talents to produce what the […]
Two Saturdays ago, I left Washington D.C. to attend the Naparima College Christmas Dinner and Dance in Toronto. For the past few years, one classmate, Satnarine (Sat) Pundit, has been sharing information on our alumni dance and the exciting things our alma mater family was doing in Toronto. Sat and I reconnected in 1998 in […]
Come Friday, Maestrea and Friends will put on the sixth annual House Parang Lime. Venue: The Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre on Credit Union Drive in Toronto. As Parandero Tony Mastrea, the leader of the group, notes, the show comes at ” the unofficial end of the parang season in Toronto ” and it’s the last […]
