The sold-out event series is creating a hub for connection and friendly competition, all centred around dominoes. Patricia Dolor What to know Domino Club was founded by product designers Dak Turner and Marlon Pusey to create a social space rooted in Caribbean culture and community. The event blends dominoes, music and socializing, offering a more … Continue reading ‘We can’t lose recipes,’ How this Toronto domino club is keeping Caribbean traditions alive one game at a time
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Old building of Le Nouvelliste on Rue du Centre in Port-au-Prince before the gang attack on April 25, 2024. Photo credit: Archives of Le Nouvelliste The Haitian government and Le Nouvelliste’s leadership hope recognition will help preserve and digitize more than a century of Haiti’s oldest daily newspaper by Juhakenson Blaise Mar. 12, 2026 Overview: Haiti’s … Continue reading Haiti nominates Le Nouvelliste archives for UNESCO heritage register
On December 13, 2025 Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves will be sharing research from her book 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨-𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞: 𝐀 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐆𝐮𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐚) 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟒-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟒 published by the Guyana Heritage Society in 2014, as well as subsequent research findings. This will be exactly 100 years after the Cathedral was opened. Incidentally, … Continue reading From Ashes to Ferro-Concrete: A History of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Guyana 1914-2014
Teddy D Frederick Production/Grenada Film Company Runako Celina A year after record-breaking Hurricane Beryl, the Caribbean is still reeling – but on one island, defiant traditions are fuelling its climate resilience. In the predawn darkness, the streets are still damp from the night before as thousands gather, ready to parade through St George's, the capital … Continue reading ‘If our culture survives, then so do we’: The Caribbean island defying the existential threat of hurricanes
Joseph Hillel’s film ‘At All Kosts’ looks at the courage and dignity of people living in Haiti. He’s hoping to show a different side of the country often characterized by its political unrest and brutality. Watch the trailer. https://youtu.be/wn5ugejnS6s Watch an interview with the director. Montreal director's new film shows different, beautiful side of Haiti … Continue reading Montreal director’s new film shows different, beautiful side of Haiti
Feb. 23 is now known as Patty Day in Toronto, in commemoration of the day it became OK to talk about Jamaican patties. The front page of Jamaica's Sunday Gleaner on Feb. 17, 1985: "Canada bans the 'patty'." (CBC / Patty vs. Patty) The story of Toronto's bizarre 1985 'patty wars': when the government tried to rename the … Continue reading That time Canada and Jamaica had a “war”
January 26, 2025 Written by Janine Mendes-Franco After much public discussion about the role of statuary, iconography and other visible aspects of the Caribbean's shared colonial past — the presence of which, to many, continues to whitewash the accuracy of the historical narrative — Trinidad and Tobago's government has decided to make changes to the country's coat of … Continue reading Why Trinidad and Tobago artists are up in arms about the country’s attempt to ‘decolonise’ its coat of arms
Tania Hernandez Source: The New York CaribNews January 16, 2025 Louise Bennett-Coverley, popularly known as “Miss Lou,” is a cultural figure in Jamaica known for spreading the rich Jamaican culture with every fiber of her being, both locally and abroad. This is expressed through poems and songs that extend to playwrights. Tania Hernandez, a Jamaican-Canadian novelist, … Continue reading Jamaican-Canadian Author’s New Book Celebrating Louise Bennett-Coverley
Masani Montague is synonymous with producing and promoting Jamaican and Rastafari cultural projects in Toronto, Canada. In 1974, a young, enthusiastic, and energetic Masani Montague migrated from her homeland of Jamaica to Toronto. Like so many immigrants to Canada, Masani took the opportunity to educate herself by securing a diploma in Journalism from Humber College, … Continue reading Masani Montague and Rastafest 2025
Source: TMU Eyeopener (NAGEEN RIAZ/THE EYEOPENER) November 26, 2024 By Moyo Lawuyi Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) new fashion course is giving students the chance to make their own Caribana Carnival costumes while exploring the history and culture involved in the popular Caribbean festival. FSN 610: Carnival Arts—also offered in TMU’s Black Studies minor—was developed by Candice … Continue reading From Caribana to campus: Unique TMU course pairs creativity with Caribbean culture