Caribana
Jamaica begins search for cheaper electricity
KINGSTON: The Government of Jamaica has begun its search for 115MW of renewable energy to add to the national grid.
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell, says investors in renewable ene
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2,000 kids strut their stuff at junior carnival
Tribal Knights and Fantasia International were double winners at the annual junior carnival parade last Saturday at Downsview Park.
Celena Seusahai, the daughter of Tribal Knights bandleader, Dexter Seusahai, repeated
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Where is the money?
By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor
In another two weeks, some one-million people will converge on Lakeshore Boulevard for the annual Caribbean-styled carnival which has become a staple of this cityâ€
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Time to decide where we stand on Caribana
By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Editor
In a recent conversation, Denise Herrera-Jackson, the CEO of the Festival Management Committee (FMC), the organization which has run the Caribana festival for the past fiv
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Caribana, Africville and jazz: tales of our stolen culture
In each instance in which Black people lost the Montreal Jazz Festival, saw Toronto's Caribana re-branded, and were forcibly removed from Nova Scotia's Africville, members of a City council played the seminal role.
Howeve
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Greed Is All Blade And No Handle
The Russian novelist, Tolstoy, in 'How much land does a man need?' wrote about a farmer named Pahom. Born very poor, Pahom developed an obsession with owning land. Eventually, the more he got, by fair means or foul, the less able
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Remember Caribana’s roots
By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Editor
I watched, in dismay, the news on television last week Wednesday when a number of folks were shown at the podium announcing the name change for this year’s Caribana festiv
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