Migrant workers and their allies from Caregivers Action Centre, Justicia for Migrant Workers and other member organizations of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change have sent a letter to MP Arif Virani, parliamentary assistant to the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship asking him to address their issues. “This holiday season as you sit with your […]
Barbados-born Austin Clarke’s writings continue to be recognized, this time as an RBC Taylor Prize nomination for his most recent book, ‘Membering, the Commonwealth and Giller award-winning work. In ’Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism […]
Recently, The Camera caught up with Jo Campbell to find out what he’s been up to since he closed his popular JoJo’s Caribbean Bakery in 2000. This is what he told us: These days, it is unusual for me to go anywhere in the city without bumping into a former customer. The discussion almost always […]
LONDON, England – St. Lucia’s appointment of a Saudi billionaire as its Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the government’s refusal to lift his diplomatic immunity to face a divorce suit is being criticized by a senior British parliamentarian. The Dr. Kenny Anthony administration last month sought to defend the appointment of […]
Spotify in its year in review says the most-streamed artist of the year was golden boy Drake, with around 1.8 billion total streams. Canada’s Justin Bieber had the most streams in a single day and homegrown The Weeknd’s pop charmer Beauty Behind the Madness was the most-streamed album. At least one thing on the list […]
Jamaica-born Jamaica Canadian Association co-founder Kamala-Jean Gopie who has fought tirelessly for the community has received the William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations from the City of Toronto The award highlights access, equity and human rights. The veteran activist and leader who is also the University of the West Indies Toronto Gala 2011 Vice-Chancellor’s […]
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintains that the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is a one-off situation. This is an outright lie. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times. Police killing African men and women are as American as apple pie and the FBI. It is as Chicago as Michael Jordon and Scottie […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The state is moving to deem a Trinidadian convicted in the U.S. a terrorist and obtain a freezing order of his assets and any transaction done on his behalf. The unprecedented action against convicted JFK bomb plotter Kareem Ibrahim, which is being pursued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, follows the collaborative […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The redevelopment of the nearly 200-year-old Sam Lord’s Castle into a hotel managed by the world’s largest hotel company will bring with it 3,000 local jobs, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony at the 57-acre site in the eastern parish of St. Philip, he said the new Sam Lord’s […]
