PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The Trinidad and Tobago government says the oil giant British Petroleum ( BP) will invest five billion US dollars in the country over the next five years. A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister said that the assurance was given during talks in the United States between a […]
Durham Mas’, led by Jerrol “Stretch” Augustine, presents Canboulay for 2017 Toronto Carnival. Augustine introduced his costumes at his band launching at the Church of the Nativity in Scarborough on Saturday . Now in its third year, the band is ” bringing back “some of the old time carnival characters but will also feature many […]
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 […]
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?
MIAMI – Two Caribbean leaders will participate in a World Bank conference here today on the socio-economic situation in the Caribbean. The conference, titled “The Caribbean Dilemma,” is part of the Americas Conference Series being put on in collaboration with the Miami Herald newspaper. Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell of Grenada and St Lucia’s Prime […]
By Robyn Rihanna Fenty Grammy award-winning singer Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) received the 2017 Humanitarian of the Year award last week from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations .She was honoured for her philanthropic work to improve cancer treatment in her native Barbados and in support of education programs. Here is what she […]
By Meegan Scott Blacks are headed towards a more persistent state of social and economic decline, if not the collapse of black communities. This is the story presented in all the major reports on economic wellbeing and the racial wealth gap— that I have read. Predictions of our future as a cataclysm is highly probable. […]
By Michael Lashley As we begin Black History Month, which we celebrate in February every year, it is important to emphasize that history is also about the strategic contribution to the present and to the future that we make today, for the benefit of generations to come. It is therefore not surprising that so many […]
A CACHE of lost Bob Marley recordings has been discovered after lying for more than 40 years in a damp, London hotel basement. According to The Guardian, the 13 reel-to-reel, analogue master tapes were discovered in cardboard box files in a run-down hotel in Kensal Rise, north-west London, the modest lodgings where Bob Marley and […]
Pride Toronto voted at its annual general meeting on Tuesday in favour of the full list of demands made by Black Lives Matter (BLM) Toronto last summer after a sit-in at its parade. One of the controversial demands was the banning of Toronto Police from marching and participating in the Pride parade and other Pride-related […]
