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  Face of the Festival (and a body too!) wanted for 2023  Just as this week’s Caribbean Camera was going to press, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival sent out a call for this year’s Face of the Festival.  The carnival is looking for a  Brand Ambassador to represent the Toronto Caribbean Carnival this summer.   “Are you the next Face of the Festival?” asked festival organizers in the first issue of their new Carnival Insider newsletter.  “ If you think you have the passion, energy, and rhythm to represent what the Toronto Caribbean Carnival is all about, we need you! Register for a chance to become the 2023 Face of the Festival.”    “If you believe carnival is LIFE and believe there is no greater joy than jamming down de road with your section, then we are looking for you. Your duties will include event appearances, event hosting, appearing in social media content, and promoting Toronto Carnival to the world!” reads the newsletter article.   In advertising for the next Face of the Festival

Saint Thomas “Weir I Doubt Everything You Write"       by Stephen Weir   When I get overheated, I talk to myself. Lou d and Long. Important stuff. Politicians eavesdrop. Reporters take notes. Nuns cry. Priests scoff and Lord have mercy, they love to throw things at my head. Today, sitting in the back pew of India’s San Thome Church it is a bowl of hot curry, airborne and coming my way.         “It is always hot in Mylapor . Pretend you are making a booty call on that cell of yours, so the congregation won’t think you are coo coo ,” whispered a reedy voice from the other end of the wooden pew. “Better duck. Now!!! ”   I look over. He is old. Bald on top. He has shoulder-length grey white side hair. His wavy bushy white beard would bring jealous tears to the eyes of Santa Claus (“if there was such a person” I mumble),     “I doubt it” he croaked.     Damn . He heard me. I’ve got to turn my volume down a notch or three.     Thanks for the warning, you strange looking man, I th