BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Former Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur died during the early hours of Monday, a brief government statement has confirmed. He was 70. It said that Arthur, the longest serving head of government, died at 12:26 am (local time). Arthur, an economist, had been hospitalized earlier this month at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital […]
ATLANTA , Georgia – John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, has died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’ passing late Friday night, […]
Earl Cameron, who was one of the first Black actors to perform in mainstream British films and played supporting roles to enduring entertainment icons such as James Bond and the title character in “Doctor Who,” has died. He was 102. Cameron died Friday, according to The Royal Gazette, a newspaper in his native Bermuda. The […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Legendary former West Indies batsman Sir Everton Weekes, the last surviving member of the distinguished Three Ws, died in Barbados on Wednesday following a long illness. The oldest surviving West Indies cricketer and third oldest surviving men’s Test player, Sir Everton passed away at his Christ Church home at age 95, bringing […]
Barbados-born Harold Brathwaite, Canada’s first Black director of education, died at a Toronto hospital on May 31 last, a day before his 80th birthday. He was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. In a statement, Peter Joshua, director of education with the Peel District School Board (PDSB), said ” Brathwaite made history in 1994 when he […]
Trinidad-born Justice of the Peace Prior Noel Bonas who was a widely known promoter of ” Carnival fetes,” died at his home in Brampton last Thursday after a brief ilness, He was 71. His wife, Sandra, said he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last April. Bonas who came to Canada in 1972, worked as an […]
Kifayat Mohammed, one of the founders of The Caribbean Camera, died at the Brampton Civic hospital on Saturday.He was 75. His daughter, Faadia, said he had been ailing for some time with Parkinson disease. Mohammed who was the Chief Financial Officer of the Mirror Group of newspapers in Trinidad, came to Canada in 1989. Along […]
Retired Trinidad-born physician Cecil Beresford Craig died at the Ottawa General hospital on May 20 last. He was 87. His daughter, Suzanne. told The Caribbean Camera that Dr. Craig was in hospital for about two week with kidney problems and died of renal failure. She said her father came to Canada in 1956 to study […]
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, May 22, – St. Lucia is mourning the death of cultural icon, Joyce Auguste, whose body was found at her home, on the outskirts of the capital, last Wednesday. She was 76. “Our deepest condolences go out to the family of Ms. Denise Joyce Auguste. As a nation, we note that her […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prominent Jamaican businessman, media magnate, Oliver Frederick Clarke, died on Saturday night after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 75. Clarke was the managing director and chairman of the 185-year-old Gleaner Company which publishes The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. The paper described Clarke as a “quintessential media tycoon, Caribbean luminary, humanitarian and […]
