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Trinidad and Tobago (Thursday, February 11, 2021) — Sandra DesVignes-Millington, popularly known as Singing Sandra, died on Thursday, January 28, 2021. The Trinidadian calypso artiste — who was born in 1957 in East Dry River, and raised in Morvant — ...

By Heather Lawford; Heather L. Ramey; and Jessica Riddell Guest Contributors National youth poet laureate, Amanda Gorman’s, recitation of “The Hill We Climb,” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration in the United States, captured the attention of a nation and people, globally. ...

TORONTO, Ontario — Toronto History Museums recently launched the Awakenings program – a virtual series of art projects by Black, Indigenous and artists of colour — aimed at addressing the lack of representation in stories about Toronto. It is a ...

By Michael Stasko Guest Contributor “Here are your handcuffs. Now, how would you like to wear them?” Each time I embark on a new low-budget independent film, this is the mantra that begins to play on a loop in my head. ...

By Michael L. Van Cooten Publisher/Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario (Tuesday, December 8, 2020) — Denise Jones, 64, prominent entertainment and cultural promoter and entrepreneur — who was honoured for Excellence in Entertainment by the African Canadian Achievement Awards (ACAA), and in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Wednesday, December 2, 2020) — Jamaicans, at home and abroad, will have the opportunity to win US$2,500 in the Jamaica 60th Logo Competition. The competition is being organised by the Secretariat for Commemorative Events and Special Projects in ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Tuesday, November 3, 2020) — Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, says the late Scottish and Academy Award-winning actor, Sean Connery, and his monster James Bond film, Dr. No, were instrumental in launching Jamaica as a premiere destination for ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Friday, October 16, 2020) — Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, and Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Laurie Peters, toured the Marley family’s Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, on Wednesday. The purpose of the ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda (Friday, October 16, 2020) — CARIFESTA, the Caribbean’s premiere cultural festival, which was scheduled to be held in Antigua and Barbuda in August next year, has been postponed to August 2022. Daryll Matthew, Minister of ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Friday, October 2, 2020) — Aloe Blacc – the GRAMMY-nominated, platinum-selling singer, songwriter, producer, and activist – released his newest album, All Love Everything, today. Inspired by his family, the new album, out on BMG, is really shaped ...