BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, November 14, 2017 (CMC) – A Barbadian entertainer is among three people arrested and jointly charged in connection with BDS$625,000 worth of cocaine. Betty Alicia Griffith-Payne, 38, is jointly charged with her sister, Marie Alexa Griffith, 35, and ...
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Feed SubscriptionThe Heritage Singers Celebrates 40th Anniversary, Reflectively Sauntering Down Memory Lane
By Victor and Sharmon Carrington PRIDE Contributing Writers TORONTO, Ontario, November 1, 2017 — Oh! What a night! What a night! What a Saturday night! Saturday night-before-the last, at the Toronto Centre for The Arts, we were among the hundreds, ...
Read More »Poetry Soapbox: Death Mask
Death Mask By Lorna King PRIDE Poet Laureate In the split second, between wakefulness, and sleep, my ancestors visit me wearing death masks with a backdrop of lighted black and white they gently surround my fears; while they probe my ...
Read More »Jamaica’s First Entertainment Zone Named
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 23, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Entertainment Minister, Olivia “Babsy” Grange, has named Fort Rocky in Port Royal, east of here, as the island’s first entertainment zone. Grange, who made the announcement at the recent launch of Carnival ...
Read More »The Heritage Singers Canada: Forty Years — And Counting — Of Promoting Caribbean And African Folk Culture
TORONTO, Ontario October 17, 2017 — Many people are familiar with Caribbean songs in the forms of reggae and calypso, however, precious few are familiar with the wealth of Caribbean folk songs. To remedy this situation, Toronto-based Heritage Singers Canada ...
Read More »Jamaican Reggae Crooner, Richie Stephens, Receives Two ASCAP Awards In England
KINGSTON, Jamaica, October 17, 2017 — This year is turning out to be one of the biggest years of Richie Stephens’ musical career. After being honored with a Pop award at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Hollywood in April ...
Read More »Poetry Soapbox: Cricket, Lovely Cricket!
Cricket, Lovely Cricket! By Shelley Sykes-Coley Guest Poet Me caan stop now, me affi go buy mi ticket Fi go watch di nex’ T20 cricket! Ah waan fi see when di wicket dem a fall, An’ di bounsa dem a ...
Read More »Poetry Soapbox: Eve
Eve By Lorna King PRIDE Poet Laureate Eve in Africa solid in wood. Carved in stone in caves; with butt, belly, and breast to feed the world, to start the tribe. Eve her daughter grown pale; butt-less, breast-less, belly-less. She ...
Read More »Miss Lou Memorialized In Cultural And Educational Institutions
By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, September 8, 2017 — A room at the Harbourfront Centre, a popular cultural hub on the waterfront in Toronto, was recently named in honour of Miss Lou, whose real name is Louise Bennett ...
Read More »Community Group Sues New York Police Department Over Caribbean J’Ouvert And Carnival Parade Information
BROOKLYN, New York, September 3, 2017 (CMC) – A Brooklyn, New York, community group is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) for withholding details about how it policed last year’s Caribbean J’Ouvert and the massive Carnival Parade. Equality for ...
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