By Stephen Weir The Prime Minister of Canada has gotten a lot of ribbing from his critics for his new hairdo (some say it looks like Jim Carrey’s hairdo in Dumb and Dumber), but that did not faze the thousands of children who took part in Saturday’s Junior Parade. When CBC announcer and MC for […]
By Lincoln DePradine Recording artist and award-winning steel pannist and composer, Joy Lapps, continues a summer tour this weekend in Toronto, where she’ll perform songs from her newly released album titled, “Girl in the Yard’’. “It’s been a long time coming,’’ Lapps commented on the musical album, telling The Caribbean Camera it’s aimed at putting […]
Photos and article By Rebecca Kerr The sun was blazing hot, the loud, pulsating, infectious sounds of Soca music echoed thru the streets in Malvern as thousands of junior masqueraders, their parents, relatives and friends chipped, danced, jumped and waved for the return of kiddies’ carnival 2022. Thousands lined the street to welcome back The […]
Mavis Elaine Burke who founded Women for PACE, renamed PACE Canada, an organization initially set up to assist early childhood education in Jamaica, died on July 7 last at a nursing home in Markham, Ontario. She was 94. Burke who was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, grew up in Jamaica and came to Canada […]
This year the Pan Fantasy Steel Orchestra will be celebrating 35 years of making beautiful music and to remember in the west end community in which the players played their first notes together. Since then the band has become one of the most successful bands in Toronto, winning eight Pan Alive competitions. Now they are […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to the Caribbean children’s carnival in Scarborough on Saturday. As masqueraders got together in Malvern for the 45th anniversary of children’s participation in the Toronto Caribbean carnival, the unexpected visitor from Ottawa along with several of his MPs and Ontario MPPs were welcomed to the event. The […]
Eight youth basketball teams took to the courts of a Lowertown park in Ottawa last Saturday for a tournament held in the memory of two young Black men shot and killed last summer, just minutes away. Dozens came out to watch the “Peace in the Streets” tournament in Jules Morin Park, which honoured 20-year-old Loris […]
The Fondation Michaëlle Jean Foundation is pleased to announce that it is offering Live Streaming of the National Black Canadians Summit (#NBCS2022) through the generous partnership of Enbridge, making the Summit more accessible to more Canadians. The live stream is an opportunity for the public to take part in a suite of sessions, to hear […]
Grenada accredited “Culinary Capital’’ by the World Food Travel Association By Lincoln DePradine New York University graduate Belinda Bishop, a professionally trained chef with many years of experience in the culinary arts, is excited to be now visiting Canada as part of an exercise to generate greater visitor interest in Grenada, where her father […]