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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, December 4, 2019 (CMC) – US composer, Irving Burgie — who helped popularise Caribbean music with songs such as Day-O, Island in the Sun, Jamaica Farewell and Mary’s Boy Child — is dead. Born on July 28, 1924, ...

Cheryl Thompson Guest Writer When Harriet, the biopic about Harriet Tubman, debuted earlier this month, reviews were mostly favourable and it did better than expected at the box office, grossing $12 million its opening weekend. Several news stories have since ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 11, 2019 (CMC) – The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has designated the city of Port-of-Spain as a City of Music. The announcement was made, last week on Tuesday, by ...

TORONTO, Ontario November 8, 2019 — Allidia Aubrey, representing the village of Morne Rachette, won the title of Miss Wob Dwiyet Canada 2019, out of a field of four contestants. The cultural pageant show was the highlight of the Commonwealth ...

BRAMPTON, Ontario November1, 2019 — The late Karl Mullings, a renowned reggae music industry stalwart and influential artist manager, who passed away in Toronto, on July 29, 2005, was honoured by the city of Brampton, which named one of its ...

By Kenton X. Chance CMC Correspondent NIAMEY, Niger, October 22, 2019 (CMC) — Clothing outfits, handbags, shoes and accessories, from a number of Caribbean designers and a self-taught Nigerien designer, generated a buzz at a fashion show, here, last Saturday ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia October 9, 2019 — Pioneering filmmaker and National Film Board (NFB) Pacific and Yukon Studio producer, Selwyn Jacob, received an Honorary Degree from Dalhousie University, yesterday, in recognition of his outstanding contributions. Since the early 1980s, Jacob’s ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, October 8, 2019 (CMC) – An agreement has been signed, between the Ministry of Education and Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO), for steelpan and calypso to be taught in schools as part of the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica September 19, 2019 — The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) will be staging a series of activities, between September 1 and December 10, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late cultural icon, Dr. Louise ...

ST. ANDREW, Jamaica September 11, 2019 — Gordon Town Square, in the parish of St. Andrew, will be officially renamed in honour of the late cultural ambassador, Dr. Louise Bennett-Coverley – affectionately known as “Miss Lou”. A globally-acclaimed writer, folklorist, ...