Thirty-three Jamaican farm workers are back on the job, after a spectacular fire gutted their living quarters at Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation in Mount Pleasant, Ontario, last Thursday, leaving them with just the clothes on their backs. When The Caribbean Camera reached co-owner of Chary Produce, John Chary, he said “no comment,” […]
When the Black Daddies Club (BDC) was established in 2007, it lacked a platform to voice its opinions and “share the ‘brotherhood.’ ” Today its voices are ” going places.” Through a partnership with Caribbean Tales, a company committed to building a global community between Canadians and like-minded artists, cultural entrepreneurs and community builders throughout […]
“Take two flatbreads known as bara, fill them up with curried channa (chickpeas) and stir in 1.3 million multi-ethnic, diverse, colorful people and you can enjoy the snack-sized sandwich we call doubles – one of the many foods which are indigenous to and part of the national cuisine of the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.” […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Amid calls for government not to touch laws that allow girls to marry as young as 12 years old, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister Ayanna Webster-Roy insisted there is a “critical need for the age of marriage to be aligned to the age of consent […]
Men who become fathers at an older age and / or consume large amounts of alcohol may face taking care of a child with birth defects. This finding is according to a growing body of research uncovered by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre. They say these defects result from genetic alterations that can potentially […]
JOHN’S, Antigua – A week after health authorities confirmed the first case of the Zika virus in the country, a medical doctor has advised local women to put off getting pregnant, at least for the time being. Director of the American University of Antigua (AUA) Health Centre Dr. Kimberly Mallin made the recommendation while she […]
Brampton’s first Jamaican-born city Councilor Garnett Manning welcomed the news that Court of Appeal Justice Michael Tulloch will head the review of police oversight bodies. Tulloch will lead an independent review of the three agencies that oversee police conduct in the province: the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the Independent Police Review Director […]
Scarborough and western Durham Region will eventually get new hospitals, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Dr Eric Hoskins has announced. Hoskins cited recommendations of the report of the Scarborough-West Durham Panel on hospital planning, governance and service delivery to be implemented to give patients better access to care in both areas. “The appointment of […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s oldest citizen, supercentenarian Violet Moss Brown, is approximately eight months younger than the world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones of the U.S. That status comes from information available from the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) website. Moss Brown, who is ranked third by GRG, turned 116 on March 10. Mushatt Jones turned […]
