By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor In a confluence of scintillating notes and harmonies, former singers of the celebrated Jamaican group, Black Uhuru, are getting together on the same stage for the first time in Toronto. With musical careers ...
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Feed SubscriptionCourt Battle Over Bob Marley Music Begins In British Court
LONDON, England CMC – The trial over the ownership of a number of songs by the late Jamaican Reggae icon, Bob Marley, began here on Tuesday, in the Chancery Division of the High Court. The songs in dispute are Crazy ...
Read More »Three African Canadian Youth Selected To Receive Michaëlle Jean Foundation Young Arts Entrepreneur Funding
OTTAWA, Ontario — Last week Wednesday, the Michaëlle Jean Foundation announced the first recipients of its new Young Arts Entrepreneur program funding. With the support of CIBC and BMO, and the collaboration of the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, the program ...
Read More »Oliver Samuels Celebrates 65th Birthday With New Comedic Play And Star-studded Cast
By Michael Van Cooten Pride Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario – Boasting over 40 years’ experience in the business of entertaining, Oliver Samuels, irrefutably a Jamaican cultural icon, is celebrating his 65th birthday, in Toronto on Mother’s Day weekend, with a new ...
Read More »Vybz Kartel Sentenced To Life
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Popular Dancehall Artiste, Vybz Kartel, and his three co-accused, have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams. Kartel, whose real name is Adjidja Palmer, along with Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones ...
Read More »Ethiopia’s Female Fashion Designers Embrace Tradition To Boost Sales
By James Jeffrey Guest Writer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (IPS) – Female fashion designers are drawing on Ethiopia’s rich cultural heritage and adding a modern twist to find success at home and increasingly impress abroad. In fact, fashion design is proving ...
Read More »Carnival’s Struggle To Find Right Mixture Of Tradition And Modernity
By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer “A shakeup of the entire (carnival organizing committee) needs to take place and the entire board removed and replaced with representatives of the arts and cultural communities and carnival, pan and calypso stakeholders….Properly constituted, ...
Read More »Vybz Kartel Sentencing Delayed
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The sentencing of entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St John has been delayed until Thursday, April 3. In court on Thursday morning, the Judge Justice Lennox Campbell asked the ...
Read More »Lawyers To Appeal Vybz Kartel’s Murder Conviction
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Lawyers for the popular dancehall artiste, Vybz Kartel (Adidja Palmer), who was found guilty of murder last Thursday, say they intend to appeal the conviction following a trial that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) said, ...
Read More »Celebrity Chef Inspired By Food And Music
By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Roger Mooking, a celebrity chef, television host, cookbook author and award winning recording artist says he always has a song in his head. Recently, while shoveling snow outside his place, he ...
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