By Lincoln DePradine The Ontario government has repeatedly said the province needs more workers in some sectors, including the skilled trades. According to the government, “nearly 300,000 jobs are going unfilled daily’’. Now, a plan has been announced to double the number of “economic immigrants’’ to help solve the labour shortage in the Province of […]
PACE Canada sends CAD$100,000 annually to schools in Jamaica for upgrades By Lincoln DePradine PACE Canada, a federal Canadian charitable organization founded in 1987 by a group of women in the Jamaican Diaspora, is presenting awards to five Jamaican schools that emerged winners in a contest that was held as part of the commemoration […]
Award-winning actor Sheryl Lee Ralph will receive the “Luminary Award’’ By Lincoln DePradine Toronto organizers, who are just weeks away from an annual event in support of the University of the West Indies (UWI), will be honouring a well-known Caribbean-American actor at what they’re promising to be a “spectacular night’’. Award-winning actor Sheryl Lee Ralph […]
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley wowed the crowd in Toronto during her recent visit to Canada on Saturday March 25. Mottley was in town to speak at the annual “Bring on the Spring” event, which is organized by the Barbados Canada Foundation. As the guest of honor and keynote speaker, she spoke about the importance […]
A union representing public service lawyers says the government has found there was discrimination and systemic racism in an institution specifically designed to root it out. The Association of Justice Counsel says the Canadian Human Rights Commission, whose mandate is to protect the core principle of equal opportunity, discriminated against Black and racialized employees. It […]
By Roger Gibbs After watching some of the recent media coverage of the Calypso, Steelpan and Mas band competitions held during Carnival in Trinidad, and subsequently reflecting on the annual Calypso competitions in Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Antigua, I ask the question: Is competition really the best way to develop and support the […]
A sprawling compound claiming to be the Caribbean’s priciest of all time is up for sale on the island of Mustique. The island lies in the stream of islands of St Vincent and the Grenadines just a hundred miles west of Barbados. Known as the Terraces, the abode proclaims to be not only the area’s […]
A US-based Trinidadian is disrupting the beverage industry with a universal non-alcoholic mixer influenced by one of his grandfather’s recipes. Zurena offers a portfolio of simple and versatile Caribbean drink mixes made with lemons, limes, passion fruit, mango, and Caribbean spices. Packaged in a 750ML bottle, the all-natural, sodium-free, gluten-free, and fat-free mixes come in […]
How did more than 600 Cameroonians come to find themselves stranded on a Caribbean island that many of them had never heard of? Daniel fights to hold back the tears as he recounts the day his two younger brothers were shot dead by militia during a trip to the market in his native Cameroon. They […]
The Pickering Council recently voted against supporting a developer’s request for a minister’s zoning order (MZO) for the construction of a 128-bed long-term care home in the northeast part of the city. The facility, proposed by Kathleen Williams of Atlantic Mas Foundation, was aimed at providing affordable housing, residences for older adults, and retail and […]
