By Gerald V. Paul When The Camera dropped in at the new site for Tropicana Community Services, we learnt that the first phase complete with office space, the reception area and five counseling rooms, will be completed this year. The second phase will involve the installation of a gymnasium, computer labs, a studio, a kitchen […]
By Jasminee Sahoye What are the labour market experience of immigrants from the Caribbean? This is the main theme that will be examined by a PhD student at Ryerson University in Toronto, who migrated from Trinidad and Tobago almost a decade ago. Ron Branker is looking for candidates in Ontario from Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad […]
While efforts are being made by the Caribbean Tourism Organization to market the Caribbean as an attractive tourist destination, individual countries are doing their fair bit of work to promote their unique products. Last Monday, the Saint Lucia Tourist Board unveiled a new brand campaign “Lift Your Senses,” that captures vacation moments in a fresh, […]
Seelal Binda’s plans to buy a new car were pleasantly intercepted when he received a call from The Scarborough Hospital Foundation informing him that he just won a 2013 Toyota Corolla. The brand new car, donated by Scarborough Toyota, was the grand prize in this year’s Win A Car Charity Raffle hosted by the Foundation […]
By Herman Silochan Once again, I donned my winter jacket, warm long johns and snug shoes for my annual trip to Detroit. With a winter blow brewing on the southwest 401, taking Greyhound instead makes sense. Boarding the bus is like entering an aircraft, security is heavy, my seating is tight, and laptop connections are […]
The star of Flight, whose career has gone from Malcolm X to action hero, talks about why he shuns the showbiz spotlight and reveals that a prophecy in a beauty salon first led him to take up acting Denzel Washington rolls into London on a chill January morning and the snow-storm that follows can barely […]
It’s mission-critical to be plain-spoken, whether you’re trying to be best-of-breed at outside-the-box thinking or simply incentivizing colleagues to achieve a paradigm shift in core-performance value-adds. Leading-edge leveraging of your plain-English skill set will ensure that your actionable items synergize future-proof assets with your global-knowledge repository. Did that paragraph make you cringe in horror, as […]
Rogers Communications Inc. is expanding its wireless and cable TV footprints under deals to buy the unused network spectrum of Shaw Communications Inc. as well Shaw’s Ontario-based Mountain Cablevision Ltd. Rogers said Monday the $700-million agreement with Shaw is to secure an option to purchase the Calgary company’s AWS spectrum holdings in 2014 and to […]
Written by Dr PETER FLAHERTY, Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, Canada Sunday, 06 January 2013 21:28 ON New Year’s Day, 2010, I shared a first-time visitor’s impression of Guyana with the readers of this newspaper. My comments then were mostly positive, since my very pleasant experiences here had contrasted so sharply with the negative […]
Come With It, Black Man “Nothing is strange in life, in a man out for change.” In her feature documentary Come with It, Black Man, director Tamara Tam-Cruickshank explores the musical consciousness of Dr. Leroy Calliste, better known as Black Stalin. Come with It, Black Man was filmed under the hot sun of Trinidad & […]
