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Ron Fanfair

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Toronto-based award-winning journalist. You can find my articles on https://xitter.gq/t.co/vJoO5Vlog3 and https://xitter.gq/t.co/uCE51JZ26R

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From ten meals to three storeys, Samantha Baker builds on her grandfather’s legacy ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
From ten meals to three storeys, Samantha Baker builds on her grandfather’s legacy — Ron Fanfair

From ten meals to three storeys, Samantha Baker builds on her grandfather’s legacy — Ron Fanfair

October 28, 2026 Samantha Baker has endured two prolonged shutdowns, invested money she could scarcely afford to lose and sacrificed personal comforts to build something she hopes will benefit...

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Dwayne Holness honours the mother whose sacrifice gave him a second chance. @dukeydukez ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Dwayne Holness honours the mother whose sacrifice gave him a second chance — Ron Fanfair

Dwayne Holness honours the mother whose sacrifice gave him a second chance — Ron Fanfair

October 27, 2026 At 23, Yvonne Robinson left Jamaica in 1993 with her five-year-old son, determined to build a life in Canada that would open doors for him. Raising her only child in Toronto’s Jane...

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Jamaica Diaspora Impact Awards ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Unsung heroes honoured for changing lives in Canada and Jamaica — Ron Fanfair

Unsung heroes honoured for changing lives in Canada and Jamaica — Ron Fanfair

October 25, 2026 Their names may not be familiar in every household, but their work is known to the child who gets a ride to an appointment, the newcomer who finds a path into employment and the...

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Sunday Best celebrates the power of Black style ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Sunday Best celebrates the power of Black style — Ron Fanfair

Sunday Best celebrates the power of Black style — Ron Fanfair

October 22, 2026 For years, Mel Gabriel has been telling the world that Caribbean fashion deserves serious attention. On her first visit to Toronto, the Trinidad-based founder of Caribbean Lookbook...

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Basil Ince made sporting history, then devoted himself to preserving it ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Basil Ince made sporting history, then devoted himself to preserving it — Ron Fanfair

Basil Ince made sporting history, then devoted himself to preserving it — Ron Fanfair

October 21, 2026 At Itah Sadu’s Toronto home, a breakfast gathering with Basil Ince and late novelist Austin Clarke turned into an animated dispute about a race neither man seemed prepared to...

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Linda McCurdy celebrates the mother who helped shape her success ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Linda McCurdy celebrates the mother who helped shape her success — Ron Fanfair

Linda McCurdy celebrates the mother who helped shape her success — Ron Fanfair

October 20, 2026 Eight years after knee surgery prevented Linda McCurdy from attending her celebration among100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women, she joined relatives to honour the woman whose...

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Sonia Noel carries a piece of Guyana onto the world stage ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Sonia Noel carries a piece of Guyana onto the world stage — Ron Fanfair

Sonia Noel carries a piece of Guyana onto the world stage — Ron Fanfair

October 19, 2026 Long before Sonia Noel’s designs reached international runways, she was a little girl in Bartica making clothes from newspaper for her dolls and showing school friends how to wrap...

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Along Guyana’s Essequibo River, history and community bring the journey to life ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Along Guyana’s Essequibo River, history and community bring the journey to life — Ron Fanfair

Along Guyana’s Essequibo River, history and community bring the journey to life — Ron Fanfair

October 16, 2026 Just over four months earlier, Fort Island had welcomed thousands for Guyana’s 60th independence anniversary celebrations. In early October, it offered a quieter welcome to media...

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From Barbados roads to Toronto schools, road tennis finds a new generation ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
From Barbados roads to Toronto schools, road tennis finds a new generation — Ron Fanfair

From Barbados roads to Toronto schools, road tennis finds a new generation — Ron Fanfair

October 14, 2026 At the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame’s 2022 induction gala, Ron Kellman watched guests dressed for an awards ceremony pick up racquets and try a game many had never seen before. Two...

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Dee George keeps Guyana’s sugar story alive at Herdmanston Lodge ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Dee George keeps Guyana’s sugar story alive at Herdmanston Lodge — Ron Fanfair

Dee George keeps Guyana’s sugar story alive at Herdmanston Lodge — Ron Fanfair

October 13, 2026 A guest about to check into the Rose Hall room at Herdmanston Lodge noticed another room named Albion, after the Guyanese sugar estate where he had once lived. He asked to switch...

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Amarni Webster gives Anguilla a big voice in tourism’s future ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Amarni Webster gives Anguilla a big voice in tourism’s future — Ron Fanfair

Amarni Webster gives Anguilla a big voice in tourism’s future — Ron Fanfair

October 11, 2026 Amarni Webster had barely been named the Caribbean’s Regional Junior Minister of Tourism when he began thinking about how his victory could raise Anguilla’s profile. He believed the...

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Rooted in their land, Indigenous communities are shaping Guyana’s tourism future ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Rooted in their land, Indigenous communities are shaping Guyana’s tourism future — Ron Fanfair

Rooted in their land, Indigenous communities are shaping Guyana’s tourism future — Ron Fanfair

October 9, 2026 For the potters of Toka, clay carries a responsibility passed down through generations -- take carefully from the earth and give something back. That belief helped shape how the...

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Study on Caribbean travel choices wins inaugural tourism intelligence award ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Study on Caribbean travel choices wins inaugural tourism intelligence award — Ron Fanfair

Study on Caribbean travel choices wins inaugural tourism intelligence award — Ron Fanfair

October 8, 2026 Dr. Dalano DaSouza and Dr. Dennis McCall Jr. have won the inaugural Caribbean Tourism Intelligence Award for research exploring why Caribbean residents increasingly choose internati...

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Natural beauty alone will not secure Caribbean tourism’s future ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…

Natural beauty alone will not secure Caribbean tourism’s future — Ron Fanfair

October 7, 2026 The Caribbean cannot rely on its natural beauty alone to secure its tourism future, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali warned, calling for stronger transport connections, better disaster...

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Tobago Drama Guild brings ‘In My Dreams’ and a spirit of collaboration to Toronto ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Tobago Drama Guild brings ‘In My Dreams’ and a spirit of collaboration to Toronto — Ron Fanfair

Tobago Drama Guild brings ‘In My Dreams’ and a spirit of collaboration to Toronto — Ron Fanfair

October 6, 2026 After years in Canada, Thabiti and Cherryll Birchwood returned to Tobago with experience in theatre and education, and a belief that the stage could help young people find their...

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Collaboration and clay connect Caribbean histories in new Gardiner Museum exhibition ronfanfair.com/home/2026/10/…
Collaboration and clay connect Caribbean histories in new Gardiner Museum exhibition — Ron Fanfair

Collaboration and clay connect Caribbean histories in new Gardiner Museum exhibition — Ron Fanfair

October 2, 2026 A new Toronto exhibition uses clay to connect Caribbean histories, artistic traditions and migration experiences across languages, borders and generations. After the Island: Caribbean...

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Today, we honour Indigenous communities, residential school survivors, their families, and those who continue to carry the impacts across generations. May we listen, learn, remember, and commit to meaningful reconciliation.
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Patrick Husbands’ greatest victory was making it as a Black jockey ronfanfair.com/home/2026/9/2…
Patrick Husbands’ greatest victory was making it as a Black jockey — Ron Fanfair

Patrick Husbands’ greatest victory was making it as a Black jockey — Ron Fanfair

September 29, 2026 After weeks at Woodbine Racetrack with few chances to ride, Patrick Husbands was ready to return to Barbados. The young jockey had already made his name at home where winning...

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Caribbean Canadian summit urges diaspora to help shape the region’s economic future. ronfanfair.com/home/2026/9/2…
Caribbean Canadian summit urges diaspora to help shape the region’s economic future — Ron Fanfair

Caribbean Canadian summit urges diaspora to help shape the region’s economic future — Ron Fanfair

September 27, 2026 For generations, Caribbean Canadians have sent money home, supported relatives, shared their professional skills and helped build businesses across borders. At the Caribbean...

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