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Caribbean culture on show
It was a good day at the track for many at Pompano Park, but rather than walking away a big winner, many left with a hearty plate of jerk pork and rice and peas. Saturday's Kulturefest at Pompano Park Harness Track was the kickoff to Broward County's Caribbean Carnival, which is in October.
Extradite 3 Floridians, Trinidad asks U.S.
The government of Trinidad and Tobago, as part of a far-flung corruption probe, is seeking the extradition of three Florida businessmen -- two of whom live in Miami, The Herald learned Thursday.
Annan hails Caribbean Community as a model for regional cooperation
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a model of how close cooperation can enhance economic growth and promote better relations among countries, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a message to CARICOM leaders meeting this week in Grenada.
Caribana raises curtain
Details of this year's edition of the largest street festival in the western hemisphere, Caribana, were revealed to general media Friday during a 90-minute presentation at Metro Square, the esplanade in front of Toronto's City Hall.
Caricom celebrates 25 years
The 25th annual Heads of Government Conference of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) begins with a ceremonial opening this afternoon in this spice isle of the region, a full house of leaders and a packed agenda for their four-day summit.
Deportees 'A WI Headache'
As Britain prepares to empty its jails of foreign criminals and with the United States moving aggressively to dump criminal deportees on other nations, Caribbean officials are holding their breath, deeply worried about what may happen next.
BET Awards Ignores Caribbean Singers
Despite the successes of Jamaican-born reggae singer Sean Paul on the music this past year, he has not been nominated for a BET award. The awards, which takes place at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles tomorrow night, has no Caribbean nominees, despite the fact that both Paul, Elephant Man and Beenie Man, have received heavy airplay on the station and a large portion of its audience is both Caribbean and Caribbean-American.
Reggae to da max
Get ready to skank the weekend away, as a pair of concerts tonight and tomorrow present a legendary reggae artist direct from Jamaica and some of the best roots music Hawaii has to offer.
Beenie Man's concert cancelled after warning on anti-gay lyrics
Beenie Man has been forced to cancel a London concert after he was warned by police that his lyrics could be an incitement to violence against homosexuals. Beenie Man, whose real name is Anthony Moses Davis, was questioned by police about his song lyrics, which discuss murdering gay men and women.
Reggae star Beenie Man stopped by police; activists declare triumph over homophobia
Beenie Man, one of Jamaica's top reggae and dancehall stars, was apprehended by members of the Metropolitan Police yesterday as he arrived in the UK. Officers met the musician at Heathrow airport as part of their ongoing investigation into whether his lyrics are homophobic and incite anti-gay violent acts.
Head of crack cocaine empire convicted
Scotland Yard was celebrating last night after the conviction of a flamboyant international drugs baron who ran a multi-million-pound crack cocaine empire spanning five countries and supplying every major city in the UK. Owen Clarke, 46, a Jamaican nicknamed The Father, ran dozens of mules - women who smuggle drugs through British airports and harbours.
Kevin Lyttle Turning them on - America next target
Basking in the phenomenal success of his monster hit, Turn Me On, Kevin Lyttle is looking to conquer new horizons. Despite Turn Me On recording sales of over a million copies worldwide, the soca star is yet to conquer the entertainment Mecca of North America. Europe has already opened its arms and accepted this son of the Caribbean.
America's contempt for the world - Bushwhacked in the Caribbean
On Feb. 29 the legally elected government of Haiti was driven from power by armed force. Its president, after being taken against his will to the Central African Republic, was given refuge in Jamaica.
Caribbean Banana Industry in Trouble
Delegates from farmers to legislators are meeting in St. Vincent starting Tuesday to discuss ways of boosting the struggling Caribbean banana industry and selling more to Europe. The three-day meeting is to be attended by officials from Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique and St. Vincent, and focus on revitalizing a banana industry in decline, said Renwick Rose, coordinator of the Windward Islands Farmers Association.
When is Prisoner Abuse Racial Violence
My stomach contracts and I feel a deep chill in every pore of my Brown skin when I see the prisoner abuse photos. I know that this is about racism. So why are so many publicly reluctant to say so?
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Dedicated to the Iron Lion of reggae
One fan has spent 20 years amassing a huge archive on reggae, writes Richard Jinman. Roger Steffens's wife is a happy woman. She's about to reclaim the six rooms of their Los Angeles house filled by her husband's reggae archive.
Beenie Man - Survival Dude
The past few months have delivered a dramatic sequence of events in the life of Beenie Man, whose 24-year career has experienced vertiginous peaks and abysmal valleys. Following the tepid response from dancehall fans to his 2002 "crossover" collaboration with Janet Jackson and the Neptunes, "Feel It Boy" (which nevertheless managed to hit the U.S. Top 40 pop charts), Beenie Man returned to his hardcore roots with the number-one song in Jamaica for 2003, "Dude," a pairing with seventeen-year-old newcomer Ms. Thing.
Valentine master of his art
If you were born male in the West Indies in the mid-Fifties, as I was, one had no choice but to be inundated with the names of the Three W's; Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell and Clyde Walcott.
Warm Jamaican Welcome Contrasts With U.S. Blockade
Nearly 500 Haitians fleeing violence and turmoil in their country have made the precarious journey in small, often over-crowded boats across the 160 kms of ocean separating Haiti from Jamaica since a political crisis erupted there in February.
Toronto's most wanted nabbed in Jamaica
The man who has topped Toronto's most wanted list for more than a decade has apparently been arrested in Jamaica. Dudley Forbes on two counts of first-degree murder for the September 17th, 1994, slayings of 29-year-old Donovan Samuda and 37-year-old Howard Ryan Deacon.
Drugged drivers targeted in Toronto
Drivers suspected of being high on over-the-counter, prescription or illegal drugs could be forced to give police saliva, urine or blood samples on demand under proposed changes to the Criminal Code introduced yesterday.
Andrew Tosh brings reggae to Yachats
The "Reggae Mylitis Salutes Peter Tosh" music tour comes to the Yachats Commons April 30. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. All ages are welcome. This 40-city tour features Andrew Tosh along with The Tosh Band and The Reggae Angels in a tribute to Peter Tosh, who, along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, formed The Wailers in 1962.
Alvin Curling, Jamaican-born Speaker of the Ontario Houses of Parliament
"IT'S like falling in love all over again," were the first words uttered by Alvin Curling, the Jamaican-born sitting Speaker of the Houses of Parliament for the province of Ontario, Canada, on being inducted into his alma mater's Hall of Fame last month.
Super Twitch arrested after gun goes off, injuring his girlfriend
Broward Sheriff's detectives are investigating a shooting in North Lauderdale that sent a woman to the hospital and her boyfriend to jail Friday night.
First-class acts at Canadian Reggae Awards
Well-known reggae artistes Johnny Clarke and Half Pint were among several veteran performers who shone brightly at the recently held 20th Annual Canadian Reggae Music Awards at the Travelodge Hotel in Toronto.
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