Come Friday, Maestrea and Friends will put on the sixth annual House Parang Lime. Venue: The Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre on Credit Union Drive in Toronto. As Parandero Tony Mastrea, the leader of the group, notes, the show comes at ” the unofficial end of the parang season in Toronto ” and it’s the last […]
A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Boeing 737 and a Fly Jamaica Airways Boeing 767 were grounded after an accident at Cheddi Jagan International airport on Tuesday morning. According to news reports, the CAL plane, arriving from New York, was taxiing to its gate when it was struck the tail cone of the parked Fly Jamaica Airways […]
Veteran calypsonian Poser, a popular Trinidadian soca parang artiste, will be the headliner at the 16th annual Parang Lime at the Metropolitan Centre in Toronto on Sunday. The Parang Lime, put on by longtime impressario Joan Alexander, her son Kolin and friends ” who feel like family,” is regarded by aficionados of the Venezuelan-derived Trinidad […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -A Nigerian mortician, accused of overstaying his time in Trinidad and Tobago, will not be deported from this country but instead allowed voluntary departure. Anthony Agu, a 34-year-old certified embalmer with JE Guide Funeral Home in the southern city of San Fernando, has been given two weeks in which to leave […]
Canadian pharmaceutical chemistry student Dannilian Motilal of Markham, Ontario won the 2016 Divali Nagar Queen pageant in Trinidad on Thursday night. She also won the People’Choice award and Miss Photogenic in the competition organized by the National Council of Indian Culture in Trinidad. Dinnilian,19, who was born and grew up in Canada, is the daughter […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s Parang Queen, Alicia Jaggasar, will be the headliner at Toronto’s inaugural Parang Latin Fiesta at Lula Lounge on Sunday October 30. Ms Jaggessar who will be performing for the first time in Canada, is the lead singer in Los Alumnos de San Juan, one of the leading parang bands in Trinidad and […]
EXCLUSIVE By Gerald V. Paul Mystery surrounds an injured Trinidad farm worker who gave The Caribbean Camera an exclusive interview on Tuesday, and then seemed to have vanished into thin air. Soon after Kevon Smith spoke with this reporter at the Eaton Centre in Toronto, he could not be reached. He gave this reporter no […]
Family members from Canada, the United States, England and Barbados got together in Trinidad on Sunday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Viola Rochester-Doyle. In picture, Mrs. Rochester-Doyle with her son, Eddison, former Chief Financial Officer of the Festival Management Committee (FMC) which has been running the Toronto Caribbean Carnival for the last ten […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Prime Minister Keith Rowley on Sunday marked the first anniversary of his People’s National Movement (PNM) Administration in office, warning the population to expect new taxes and tougher economic policies as he seeks to steer the country’s ailing economy away from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Rowley, who was given […]
Trinidad and Tobago observed the 54th anniversary of its Independence on Wednesday August 31. In this article, Trevor Sudama, a former Trinidad and Tobago Member of Parliament and Government Minister, discusses political and economic developments in the two-island state. During the 54 years of its independence from British rule, Trinidad and Tobago has had a […]
