A new Report, prepared by the well intentioned and highly respected Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), has painted a far too rosy picture of the experiences of seasonal farm workers in Canada. Almost exactly one year ago, The Caribbean Camera issued an Editorial which included a strong appeal for seasonal farm workers […]
A review by Meegan Scott Sousatzka, a delightful musical with a different kind of theatrical flow, has come to Toronto at the perfect time. The way in which the Show listens as well as speaks to Toronto through Luca’s rewrite of the original story, “Madame Sousatzka” by Bernice Rubens, and the Drabinsky production is what […]
Toronto Mayor John Tory and Helen Berhane, Deputy Chair of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Canada, will launch the 2017 Mayor’s School Cricket Tournament today at the Rotunda at Metro Hall. The 2017 individual awards will be presented to the following players: High School (Boys) Best Batter – Herrick Patel, North Albion Collegiate […]
More than 100 members of the National Evangelical Spiritual Baptist faith or Shouter Baptists, as they are called, along with several of their leaders, celebrated 100 years of the advent of their faith and 66 years of its ” liberation” on Sunday at their church on Mack Avenue in Scarborough. It was a time of […]
The federal government announced on Wednesday in its 2017 budget that it is investing $11.2-billion over 11 years in affordable housing. But critics in the Greater Toronto Area say that this is not enough. Should government be putting more money into affordable housing?
Michael Coteau, Minister of Children and Youth Services and Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism, told a meeting at Tropicana Community Services in Toronto last week that the Ontario government is ready to take on the responsibility to dismantle systemic racism in the province. And he noted that the recently released $47 million Ontario Black Youth Action […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica -The new president of the People’s National Party(PNP) Dr Peter Phillips told supporters on Sunday that the current generation of the organisation will have to fix and eliminate poverty. It is for that reason, Phillips says, he will not apologise for embracing democratic socialism which he insists still has a place in developing 21st-century […]
The House of Angostura, a major rum producer in Trinidad and Tobago has been awarded the coveted title of World Class Distillery 2017 at this year’s World Spirits Awards (WSA in Austria, as well as gold medals for five of its rums and for its newest distillation, Amaro di ANGOSTURA®. Only 25 distilleries around the […]
NEW YORK – The United Nations annual World Happiness Report was published on March 20 last (World Happiness Day), but Caribbean people interested in how their country fared were mostly disappointed, with much of the region apparently escaping the attention of the experts who compiled the report. Of those nations to make it on the […]
LOS ANGELES – Wyclef Jean, the Grammy-winning ex-member of the Fugees, said he was “appalled” after being handcuffed and questioned by police in Los Angeles. Haiti-born Jean, 47, came to the United States as a child with his family and grew up largely in New Jersey. That is where the rapper-singer played with a group […]
