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--> DEXTER ON STAGE WITH HIS DAUGHTER CELENA SEUSHAHAI AND MC SHELDON FRANCIS (SKF) Saturday night's main event for fans of Carnival   By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Sunday morning at the Grand Deluxe Ballroom in North Toronto and sunrise only three hours away. It was very late even for a Mas Band costume launch, when Tribal Carnival founder Dexter Seusahai and daughter Celena Seusahai wearing the show stopping costume lowered the music and told the wildly clapping fans where their family run band is heading. "We have been up. We have been down. Now the sky is the limit!" yelled Dexter Seusahai. He told the 500+ strong audience that Tribal Carnival will compete for the first time in three years in the large band class (1,000+) for this year's August 4 th Toronto Caribbean Carnival (Caribana) Parade, 2018. Established in 2007 Tribal has emerged as one of the festival’s most successful Mas Bands. Tribal has not only competed s...

The BIG BIG costume launch is this weekend TORONTO REVELLERS SET TO WOW THE CITY By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Make way for the Big Big Man.   This Saturday night band leader, former NBA Star and Toronto Raptors Assistant Coach, Jamaal Magloire is hosting the Toronto Revellers Masquerade Band costume launch. A 1,000+ crowd is anticipated for the April 7 th fete which is themed as Extinction: Love Our Planet . It will be held at the York Mills Gallery on York Mills Road  at 9:00 p.m. Toronto Revellers are using Carnival as a platform to bring awareness of a very serious global crisis– Mass Extinction.  “It’s not whether plants, animals, reefs have the will to survive, its whether humanity has the will to save them.  By being conscious of our environment, we determine the fate of our planet for future of generations to come,” says Magloire.  “Each costume will portray the beauty of the world that surrounds us!” Magloire ...

Award winner - Daouli Abouchere - sweir photo . Dr. Fearon interviewed in hall by Planet Africa TV Black on Bay Ball – Celebrating 20 years of change on the Street By Stephen Weir On Saturday night the Canadian Association of Urban Financial Professionals (CAUFP) marked 20 years of toiling mightily for the advancement and inclusion of black leaders in the Canadian financial services industry with what else? A black tie ball on Bay Street.   It was one part looking at the future, another part looking back to when diversity was an unspoken word on the Street but for the most part, it was a blowout party amongst hundreds of colleagues and friends! The Black on Bay Ball was a sold-out fete in Toronto’s famed Arcadian Court. The iconic art deco hall is on the 8 th floor of the Hudson Bay building at the corner of Bay and Queen Streets. The Ball ticked off all the right boxes. A red carpet reception. Caribbean styl...

Merman can’t dance, but has an Epic amount of fun trying BatGirl-weir photo By Stephen Weir for Caribbean Camera I don’t know anything about   Ryan Oldham (aka Farmer) aside from the fact that he dances worse than me (and I am the undisputed King of the Misstep). But early early Sunday morning his dancing stole the show at Epic Carnival’s Scarborough costume launch.   It was 1.30am and there were 500 people inside Hall C of the Chandni Grand Banquet Hall. The last of the night’s 10 sections – Myth of the Sea - was on stage. Raesha Sirois, the former Face of the Toronto Caribana Carnival, was the very last model to come on stage. She was wearing a striking ultra frontline lime green mermaid costume, complete with fishnet stockings, fish scales in her facial makeup, shells in in her headpiece and white and orange feathers. Can't dance but he stole the show All of the cameras and smart phones were recording her every move-- that was until Farmer started to ban...