A postage stamp from British Guiana (now Guyana) dating back to the 19th Century will be up for sale in New York in June. It is expected to be valued at a “record price”, according to the auction house, Sotheby’s. The 1856 one-cent Magenta is believed to be the last of the British one-cent stamp […]
KI Persad celebrates after winning the 2014 Chutney Soca Monarch title at Skinner Park, San Fernando, on Saturday night, with his song Runaway. For the second time in three years Canadian super KI Persad has taken the Chutney Soca monarch crown, this time he turned a tragic story into $2 million. The lyrics to KI’s […]
A Toronto criminal lawyer, who was found guilty of smuggling marijuana into the Don Jail is expected to be sentenced on May 4. Deryk Gravesande appeared at the Old City Hall courthouse last Thursday as Judge Wayne Rabley delivered his decision to a group of disappointed supporters. Gravesande was charged in 2012 with trafficking after […]
Genesis Carmona, a 22-year old beauty queen elected Miss Turismo Carabobo 2013, passed away today after being shot in the head during an anti-government protest in Venezuela. Carmona is the fifth young Venezuelan to die during peaceful anti-government protests in support of imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo López. According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Carmona was […]
Despite the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled team made into the 30th and last place after two heats of the men’s two-competition at Sanki Cliding Center, Sochi, Russia, their new Olympic song is creating quite a stir. It starts “Run the track, run the track, run the track it’s bobsled time.” Marvin Dixon and Winston Watts brought […]
It was a 14th annual ‘Boonoonoonos’ to remember at the Jamaican Canadian Association’s (JCA) last Sunday, celebrating African and Jamaican heritage during Black History Month etched with a tribute to the late freedom fighter and statesman Nelson Mandela. Also, it was a time to honour six precious sons, distinguished in public and community service, from […]
The Inventor of Laser Eye Surgery Dr. Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an American ophthalmologist, inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to B…ath, no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, headed […]
By Gerald V. Paul “Immigrants have become the black sheep. We are presumed guilty of fraud and everything unless we can prove that we are not,” says Nastran Adibrad, a Toronto psychotherapist. A concerned community view is that Ottawa’s proposed citizenship reform will punish good immigrants by putting up more hurdles in becoming full-fledged members […]
Sparrow “Enough Awards, Cash Reward For his Service” By Carlton Joseph A few weeks ago, I spoke with the “Mighty Sparrow” he is recuperating from his recent illness and is in therapy everyday, he is doing great and I look forward to him having a good many years ahead of him. Since he has many […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb 11, (CMC) – The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Tuesday said it was “deeply concerned” at the failure of Guyana to approve the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act (AML/CFT). In a statement, the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat said the regional grouping was “at the continuing delay in Guyana’s progress towards […]
