MARIJUANA becomes legal IN QUEBEC
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MARIJUANA becomes legal IN QUEBEC

Rosie AWORI After years of deliberations, on October 17, marijuana will be legal in Canada. And as with other Canadian provinces, Quebec will have some jurisdictional powers over its...

Something new for the music world
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Something new for the music world

Egbert Gaye With the recent release of her debut album, “Best Life – EP”, Montrealer Ana Stasia is offering the world a taste of the music that has been...

Fimba star rising
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Fimba star rising

Here on Sept. 8. Contact Staff At the recent Toronto Caribana celebrations, revelers couldn’t get enough of Fimba. The New York-based Vincentian soca star’s mega hit, Funky Business, had...

Jah Cutta speaks out  on son’s murder
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Jah Cutta speaks out on son’s murder

Rosie Awori Carlton Christidest Williams stabbed to death in downtown Montreal “My son was a happy man, the life of the party he always had a smile on his...

Are you craving the taste of some “OIL DOWN”?
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Are you craving the taste of some “OIL DOWN”?

Festival and competition of the popular Grenada delicacy is back Gemma Raeburn-Baynes Come Saturday, September 29, the exciting second Oil Down Festival and Competition will be back for another...

Remembering VS Naipaul
Caribbean News

Remembering VS Naipaul

Trinidadian novelist may have been the most formidable writer of the English language Contact Staff For many, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was the greatest writer of the English language....

The unending talk about race, racism… Opinions

The unending talk about race, racism…

I don’t know about you, but hearing all that talk about race, racism and its deleterious effects (on Black people in particular) last weekend just about drove me nuts....

“How soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” Martin Luther King Jr. Opinions

“How soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Wait! Wait! Are you that person who keeps putting things off? Are you a procrastinator? Procrastination is putting off something for tomorrow that you can do today. It’s postponing...

Moving tribute to Reno Byer
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Moving tribute to Reno Byer

It was a sad/sweet get together for those in the calypso fraternity and community members who gathered at Caribbean Paradise Lounge in tribute to popular musician Reno Byer, who...

Community Health Summit at J’ca Assoc
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Community Health Summit at J’ca Assoc

If healthy living is a personal objective, then here’s something of interest to the community. On Saturday, September 22, the community is invited to the Jamaica Association of Montreal...