Yasmin Mathurin Wins 2023 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award

Yasmin Mathurin Wins 2023 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award

Just as the Caribbean Camera was going to press the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced that Haitian Canadian screenwriter Yasmine Mathurin has won the 2023 TIFF–CBC Films Screenwriter Award for her screenplay Sorry Pardon Madame. Mathurin will receive a $15,000 grant and support from a script consultant. “Y’ALL,” said Mathurin in a tweet received […]

The Weeknd is the world’s most popular artist –Guinness World Records

The Weeknd is the world’s most popular artist –Guinness World Records

  The Weeknd (Toronto-born Abel Tesfaye) is now statistically the world’s most popular musician, Guinness World Records said on Monday. The 33-year-old singer has set two new Guinness World Records titles: Most monthly listeners on Spotify – 111.4 million (as of 20 March 2023) and First artist to reach 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify […]

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Inspires Active Citizenship During Toronto Visit

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Inspires Active Citizenship During Toronto Visit

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley wowed the crowd in Toronto during her recent visit to Canada on Saturday March 25. Mottley was in town to speak at the annual “Bring on the Spring” event, which is organized by the Barbados Canada Foundation. As the guest of honor and keynote speaker, she spoke about the importance […]

Competition vs. Collaboration: Rethinking the Carnival Arts Industry

Competition vs. Collaboration: Rethinking the Carnival Arts Industry

By Roger Gibbs After watching some of the recent media coverage of the Calypso, Steelpan and Mas band competitions held during Carnival in Trinidad, and subsequently reflecting on the annual Calypso competitions in Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Antigua, I ask the question: Is competition really the best way to develop and support the […]

Barbados signs education deal with Cuba

Barbados signs education deal with Cuba

Barbados signed an education memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Cuba. The MOU provides two scholarships per year for five years to Cuban nationals — providing training in English as a foreign language for Cuban experts. The signing of the MOU also provides Barbadians with the opportunity to strengthen their capacity in second […]

Molly Johnson receives Canada’s and France’s top awards

Molly Johnson receives Canada’s and France’s top awards

Molly Johnson said that she was quite shocked when she was told that she had been awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement. Johnson was among an impressive array of Canadian artistic achievers which included singer K.D. Lang, soprano Rosemarie Landry, playwright Michel Marc Bouchard and choreographer James Kudelka. While she […]

Just dropping a few good reads I enjoyed while on March break

Just dropping a few good reads I enjoyed while on March break

By Yolanda T. Marshall       Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces Written by Elamin Abdelmahmoud, a Sudanese Canadian writer and host of CBC’s pop culture show, Pop Chat. “Arriving in Canada at age 12 from Sudan, Elamin’s teenage years were spent trying new ways of being in the world and relating to […]

Mia Mottley to speak at Toronto fundraiser

Mia Mottley to speak at Toronto fundraiser

  Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados will be the guest of honour in Toronto, on March 25, to deliver the keynote address at the Bring On The Spring event that is organised by the Barbados Canadian Foundation (BCF). The event will be held at St Peter and Paul Banquet Hall, 231 Milner Avenue, Scarborough, […]

The hunt is on for the Face of the Festival for 2023

The hunt is on for the Face of the Festival for 2023

By Stephen Weir Just as this week’s Caribbean Camera was going to press, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival sent out a call for this year’s Face of the Festival.  The carnival is looking for a Brand Ambassador to represent the Toronto Caribbean Carnival this summer. “Are you the next Face of the Festival?” asked festival organizers […]

If you’re 14 and up Ontario Parks may have a summer job for you

If you’re 14 and up Ontario Parks may have a summer job for you

By Lincoln DePradine The provincial government is embarking on an “aggressive’’ outreach to hire young people for jobs opening up soon with Ontario Parks. “I’m here to tell you that we’ve got an opportunity for youth across the Province of Ontario this summer,’’ MPP David Piccini, Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks, told The Caribbean […]