Roger Charlery, known as Ranking Roger, a singer with ska-pop band,The English Beat, died at his home in the United Kingdom on Tuesday. He was 56. As part of The Beat, Charlery spearheaded the two-tone movement with a distinctive vocal style influenced by the Jamaican rap technique of toasting. The Birmingham-born vocalist had suffered a […]
Grenada-born centenarian dies in Stouffville at 102 Michael Alvan Antoine of Stouffville,Ontario who was a teacher in his native Grenada and in Trinidad and a well known parang aficionado, died at hospital on February 13 last, one week after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He was 102. Antoine who was born in the town […]
Retired physician Dr. Horace Clayton Alexis who founded the Black Canadian Scholarship Fund, died at the Ottawa hospital on February 7 last. He was 87. Trinidad-born Dr.Alexis was one of the first Black graduates from the University of Ottawa medical school. After graduation in 1967, he started his practice in Petrolia, Ontario where he […]
Trinidad-born veteran pannist Selwyn “Sello” Gomes who taught business courses at several secondary schools in Scarborough, died at the Parkview Nursing Home in Stouffville, Ontario on Saturday after suffering a stroke. He was 84. Lennox Borel, founder of the Toronto steelband, Panniks which was formed in the 1960s, and a friend of Gomes, said that […]
Grenada-born centenarian Sylvia McNeilly who celebrated her 100th birthday in April 2017, died on Saturday at The Wynfield, a long-term care residence, in Oshawa, Ontario. She died of natural causes, Wilma McNeily, one of her daughters, told the Caribbean Camera. Sylvia McNeiley, the daughter of Alexis and Eldica Miller, left Grenada for Trinidad in her […]
By Stephen Weir Photographer Don Moreland whose outstanding images of the Toronto carnival scene have earned him the plaudits of mas’ aficionados in Canada, has died. Moreland passed away in Toronto last Friday. He was 55. For over a decade Don “Donnie” Moreland has been photographing the men, women and children who play mas’ at […]
By Lincoln DePradine In more than 70 years in Canada, Bromley Armstrong faced death threats, experienced racial discrimination firsthand and suffered health problems in an endless struggle for equity and human rights for all people. But Armstrong – who died last Friday at 92 – never has had any regrets about his actions and was […]
Trinidad-born novelist and Nobel laureate Sir VS Naipaul died on Saturday at the age of 85, his family said. His wife, Lady Nadira Naipaul, said he died peacefully at his home in London. In a statement on Saturday night, she added: “He was a giant in all that he achieved and he died peacefully surrounded […]
A seven-year old Jamaican boy was found drowned in the waters off Dunes beach in Sandbanks Provincial Park on Saturday. The boy, Javaughn Black, was visiting Canada with his mother and sister, and was at the beach in South-eastern Ontario with family members. According to media reports, he was initially reported missing but was later […]
By Lincoln DePradine The first order of businesss at the official launch of the Peeks Toronto Caribbean Carnival 2018 on Tuesday was a public tribute to the late Peter Clyne, a Grenadian-Canadian attorney and former director of the Festival Management Committee (FMC), organizers of the carnival. A moment of silence was observed for Clyne, 73, […]
