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By Nelson A. King CMC Contributing Writer NEW YORK, New York August 30, (CMC) – The colors, pageantry and sounds of Caribbean Carnival were on full display this week, as the Brooklyn, New York-based West Indian American Day Carnival Association ...

By Jewel Fraser IPS Contributing Writer PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, August 30, 2017 (IPS) — Conversations about renewable and sustainable energy don’t typically include artistic ideas on the subject. However, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) has chosen to engage ...

TORONTO, Ontario August 24, 2017 – As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday and delights in all its diversity this year, the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) will mark its 12th annual festival, early next month, with a street party celebrating ...

By Garwin Davis Contributing Writer MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica August 9, 2017 — Internationally acclaimed reggae superstar, Jimmy Cliff, was, on Sunday, handed the Key to the City of Montego Bay. In front of scores of well-wishers, Cliff, who will forever ...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, August 3, 2017 (CMC) – Trinidadian soca star, Destra Garcia, has reportedly broken an ankle, after falling from a stage during her performance at a concert here, late yesterday. According to an eyewitness, the 38-year-old performer slipped between ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, July 31, 2017 (CMC) – The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for music rights, (ECCO) has won a landmark case in the High Court against Mega Plex Entertainment, which operates Caribbean cinemas, here and across the region. In ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 29, 2017 (CMC) – The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the Host Broadcasters Agreement between Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) will lead to maximum exposure for CARIFESTA XIII. At ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, July 28, 2017 (CMC) – The Barbados based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), says it will provide the initial capitalisation for a multi-donor fund to improve the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries sector in its borrowing member ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 26, 2017 — For the first time since its inception in 1972, the Caribbean’s largest arts festival, Carifesta, has agreed to the participation of a delegation of artists from the Caribbean Diaspora. ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 19, 2017 (CMC) – Jamaican Reggae artiste, Frankie Paul, 52, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies, following a long illness. Paul, whose real name was Paul Blake, was born blind, but received some vision ...