By Lincoln DePradine Trinidad-born Henry Gomez, popularly known as “King Cosmos’’, knows a thing or two about diverse talent. He’s a composer; a singer who has won the Calypso Monarch competition in Canada; a trained actor; and a dancer. But, Gomez thinks the founder of Dance Caribe Performing Company (DCPC), Martin Scott-Pascall, is unique and […]
As La Petite Musicale of Toronto celebrates its 50th anniversary, and has been led by arranger Lindy Burgess for most of the way. Speaking to the Caribbean Camera, the veteran musician said, “I am honoured to have this opportunity to bring this production to our patrons and friends. From the inception, this choral group has […]
By Stephen Weir These are salad days for Caribbean Canadian authors. Earlier this week another Trinidadian-born author won big, really big, and the country has sat up and taken notice. On Tuesday evening Ian Williams won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his very first novel “Reproduction”, published by Random House Canada, taking home $100,000. […]
By Stephen Weir It is not his stage debut, not by a long shot, but for Zachary de Lima this Sunday evening’s gig is a coming-out-party for the young Trinidad Canadian guitar singing performer. de Lima and Caribbean Fusion will be giving their first indoor Toronto performance November 24th at Scarborough’s Victoria’s Pub. The de […]
by G.Anthony Abraham Most of us approach poems as one is supposed to approach a captured animal. From the side, not head first. Cautiously, we move through a world of angles and obliques, quietly. As the reader, we calm the text, ease it out of its origins, and consume it at a distance. Howard Queeley’s, […]
By Lincoln DePradine When junior Ontario government minister Vincent Ke showed up in Scarborough to announce more than $269,000 in funding for a program of Tropicana Community Services (TCS), the organization’s executive director Raymund Guiste called it a “great day’’. The Pre-apprenticeship Training Program, overseen by the Employment Centre of TCS, prepares youth, between the […]
Her real name is Francine Edwards, but everyone knows her as Singing Francine. Now 76 years old, Francine has been singing calypsos since she was a child. She says, in reply to a question about how she became involved in the calypso art form, she asserted, “I never became involved in the calypso art form. […]
Keeping parang soca alive in Canada Whoever said that parang soca is a dying art form, should have attended the 19th annual Lime put on by Joan Alexander and Friends on Sunday at the Metropolitan Centre in Scarborough. Hundreds filled the hall for what is arguably the biggest annual parang soca show in Canada. […]
Trinidad -born retired psychiatric nurse Iva Harper-Smith who lives in Scarborough, Ontario, turned 100 on November 4 last. Mamma Iva, as she is affectionately called, attributed her long life to ” a good diet, exercise and holding on to her goals.” In a telephone interview on Tuesday last, she told the Caribbean Camera, that […]
By Lincoln DePradine Former educator and retired politician, Zanana Akande, is urging African-Canadians to avoid attempts at dividing the community, and appealing to them to unite in the fight against anti-Black racism. “The collective is still extremely important,’’ Akande said last Saturday in Scarborough at a fundraiser of the Second Chance Scholarship Foundation Inc. The […]
