Author: Mark Lee
Documentary – In the City of Promise
A look at how some Caribbean immigrants in the Toronto area cope in their new society. In the City of Promise by abengnews About Mark Continue reading
Stony Gut, Coral Gardens, Tivoli – Repression of the Counter Culture
The European launch of a documentary on the 1963 government attack on Rastafari in Jamaica, and a Canadian report that murders in Toronto have fallen 25 per cent since the arrest of Jamaican community don, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, serve to highlight that the island’s power structure and culture remain at odds, 50 years after independence…
Culture Clash Visible as Canada Bans Veils at Citizenship Swearing
The Canadian Government has decided that people taking the citizenship oath must not have their face covered. The decision is aimed at Muslim women who wear Continue reading
Ding Dong, Ding Dong, Cuckoo Bells Are Ringing
I must be crazy. Like the gods drinking Coca Cola and dropping the bottle in the Kalahari Desert on Bushmen. Read this and tell me Continue reading
Debt Before Dishonour – St Kitts Defaults as it Restructures
The credit rating of St Kitts and Nevis, the smallest independent state in the hemisphere, took a hit when it defaulted on a bond payment Continue reading
Black Music Month For Garvey Self Sufficiency Center
Black Music Month goes back to its Reggae-Dancehall roots on Saturday, June 4, 2011, with a unique fundraising dance and culturama in aid of the Continue reading
A Business Approach to Globalize Caribbean Art
The time has come to create opportunities for Caribbean artists on the world stage, asserts a leading regional artist, Ras Ayken-i Ramsay.
Great Huts – An Afro-Caribbean Tourist Resort
After a quarter of a million US dollar upgrade, Great Huts, one of Jamaica’s most distinctive resorts, has something new for visitors seeking an Afro-Caribbean Continue reading
Haiti Quake Prompts Jamaica Risk Model
Mona GeoInformatics Institute and the Earthquake Unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) have developed an earthquake risk model for NEM Insurance Company Continue reading
Mysterious Death of Smiley Culutre
David Emanuel may be a rather non-descript name, but if you have any British connections or affiliations with London’s music scene in the 1980s the Continue reading