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Nathan Phillips Square will come alive with free, exciting programming on Friday, July 11 and Saturday, July 12, kicking off the one year countdown to the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games. The festival will begin Friday at noon with the ...

Billed as the world’s largest free multicultural picnic, the CHIN Picnic takes place on Saturday, June 28, Sunday 29 and Tuesday, July 1, 2014. First held in 1967, one year after CHIN Radio/TV International was founded by the late Johnny ...

Based in Toronto, Peter Sandy’s Gamma Creole Band is set to entertain Durham next Sunday, June 29, at the Durham Caribbean Festival being held at the Greenwood Conservation Area in Ajax. The festival is the highlight of Ajax Caribbean Week—as ...

World renowned reggae superstar, Ziggy Marley, will treat audiences to a feast from his latest album, Fly Rasta, when he performs at the Luminato Festival this weekend. The Festival Hub at David Pecaut Square is a fully licensed site and ...

LONDON, England CMC – A British court has dismissed claims by a record company that it owned the rights to several songs of the late Jamaican reggae icon, Bob Marley. The Irish-based website, RTE News, reported that the court made ...

Marcia Brown Productions’ (MBP) latest offering for Toronto is Aston Cooke’s outrageously hilarious, yet thought provoking, comedy-drama, Common-Law. Now in rehearsal for its Father’s Day weekend showing of three performances at the Jamaican Canadian Centre, Common-Law follows MBP’s highly successful ...

Roseau, Dominica – Dominican jazz, fusion singer, Michele Henderson, won the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) song competition, and her winning entry, “Celebrating CARICOM”, is now the regional body’s official anthem. Henderson beat out 57 semi-finalists and 10 finalists to emerge winner ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Jamaican poet and academic, Professor Mervyn Morris, was officially invested as Poet Laureate of Jamaica on Thursday at a ceremony at King’s House – the official residence of the Governor General. Morris received the insignia of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The Bob Marley estate and the US based fried chicken chain, Raising Cane’s have reportedly reached an out of court settlement in their legal dispute over the chain’s use of the slogan “One Love.” That slogan ...

By A. D. McKenzie IPS Cannes Correspondent CANNES, French Riviera (IPS) – Forget about ‘Grace of Monaco’. Some of the most noteworthy films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival deal with human rights and the fight for press freedom, and ...