Jamaica’s minister of culture, Olivia Grange, has paid tribute to Jamaican-Canadian broadcasting entrepreneur Fitzroy Gordon, who passed away in Toronto last week. Minister Grange, herself a former resident of Toronto, said Gordon — who founded Canada’s Black and Caribbean- owned and operated radio station, G98.7FM — was an “outstanding promoter of Jamaican and Caribbean culture […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, last Friday The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard had joined the search and rescue mission for a boat carrying 25 people from Venezuela, which overturned on its way to the twin-island republic. So far, only four of those on board the Venezuelan-registered pirogue have been rescued. The other 21 are unaccounted […]
Trinidad-born poet is on the shortlist for this year’s Griffin Trust For Excellence in Poetry Prize. There are seven books shortlisted in two categories for the Griffin Poetry Prize – International poetry and Canadian poetry. The two winners, to be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday, June 6, will each be awarded $65,000 (plus […]
An urgent appeal has been launched in Toronto’s Caribbean community for a liver donor for 63-year old Rasheeda De Franca , now a patient at the Toronto General hospital. Trinidad-born De Franca who has been living in Scarborough for 40 years, was first diagnosed with a liver problem about five years ago. But according to her […]
Film-maker Frances-Ann Solomon and reggae artist Exco Levi will be among more than a dozen persons who will be honoured at the 37th annual Harry Jerome Awards to be held at the International Centre, 6900 Airport Road in Toronto on April 27. Solomon will receive the culture award and Exco Levi will be presented with […]
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 […]
