The Virtual Build Green Career Fair is an excellent opportunity for job seekers with introductory training on green building strategies to connect with companies offering entry-level positions. The fair is scheduled to take place on March 22, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The event will feature companies that specialize in green construction, energy […]
A young friend of our paper bought a fixer upper to house his family. With house prices starting at a million dollars, a fixer upper is about all a young family can afford if they are to have a place of their own. This young man and his wife are good with their hands, and […]
By Carlton Joseph In 1996, Caribbean countries were among 180 countries that signed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This body develops and promotes policies to protect the global financial system against money laundering, terrorist financing and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The recommendations plus additional special recommendations were revised in 2003, […]
By Lincoln DePradine The provincial government is embarking on an “aggressive’’ outreach to hire young people for jobs opening up soon with Ontario Parks. “I’m here to tell you that we’ve got an opportunity for youth across the Province of Ontario this summer,’’ MPP David Piccini, Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks, told The Caribbean […]
Calgary Women in Technology Summit to tackle issue As technology companies make massive cuts (beginning in 2022 and into 2023), research shows women and people of colour are losing their jobs disproportionately. According to Layoffs.FYI and 365 Data Science, an estimated 56 per cent of those let go in the recent wave of tech sector […]
In St. Elizabeth, Jamaica Jamaican rum producer and spirits distributor J. Wray & Nephew Limited (JWN), a member of the Campari Group, has unveiled a monument at the Joy Spence Appleton Estate Rum Experience (JSAERE) in St. Elizabeth, paying tribute to the enslaved people who worked on the Appleton Estate Plantation during slavery. The […]
Karen Ferron came to Canada at the age of 10 from Jamaica. In 2002, she met her husband Al, who came from Jamaica in 1998. At the time she worked as a fundraiser while Al, a tradesman, worked for the TTC. It was Al’s love of fresh food and farming, which he learned from his […]
Just as the Caribbean Camera was readying this week’s paper, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival (TCC) delivered a press release announcing several key management changes. The annual festival has been without a CEO and Chair since the early Fall with the departure of last year’s CEO and Chair Laverne Garcia. Ajax lawyer Jennifer Hirlehey has been […]
By Roger Gibbs Sometime before the end of this summer and if all goes well, a massive outdoor mural will grace a major walkway into the new Mirvish Village under construction at Bathurst & Bloor (see artist rendition in photo). The Caribbean community rarely receives public recognition for its cultural achievements from mainstream Canadian society […]
Jamaica-born Charmaine Crooks was appointed Canada Soccer’s interim president on Wednesday last week following the resignation of Nick Bontis. Canada Soccer noted that Crooks is the first woman and the first person of colour to lead the organization. Bontis resigned on Monday last week amid the current labour dispute with the men’s and women’s national […]
