Edwin Ayoung, better known as Crazy, was born in 1944 at Maraval Road, Port of Spain, Trinidad, one of eleven children to a Chinese Trinidadian father and an Afro-Venezuelan...

The 2024 Trinidad & Tobago Carnival season has ended and left us with lots of wonderful memories. The feeling of Carnival Tabanca is what one endures when flying back...

Agatha Ruphine June 20, 1933 -January 20, 2024 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Agatha, January 20, 2024, at the age of...

“My name is Susan Elrington and I have a problem that maybe you can help me solve.” An unexpected phone call on a bright summer day in 1986 changed...

The West Can’s Caribbean Carnival Exhibition on October 28 at the Harold Greenspon Auditorium in Cote St Luc, Montreal, promises to be a monumental showcase of Caribbean Carnival arts,...

Grateful that the Montreal Community Contact Newspapers is finally back in circulation, let me reintroduce my issue, Island Scoop, where the readers are informed about local or international Caribbean...

Dr. Alwin Spence I woke up this morning singing Lord Kitchener’s calypso ‘Wife and Mother’. Some of us from the islands, though not as old as I am, must...

If there’s a way to describe Harry Belafonte and his impact on the world as an entertainer and a civil rights activist, it might be: “he was for real.”...

If it’s true that song and dance add color to every people, the music, movement and creativity that have been part of the annual Black and Caribbean street parade...

In the last issue of The Montreal Community Contact, I examined the origins of Jamaica’s first popular music, Mento… The Calypso Of Yard, so to speak. It gives us...