By Nora Loreto Editor’s note: This piece was written before Premier Kathleen Wynne announced changes to party funding. Recently, I was in Georgetown, Ontario. My mornings started by reading the hard copies of The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star and snarking about things that bothered me online. My kids played somewhere. There was big […]
By Gerald V. Paul The Eyes Guy was graciously given a package and Toronto Public Library card last Tuesday with the information “Think read listen enjoy borrow explore watch experience learn hear see discuss download.” Wow! Food for thought. It’s everything you never expected in a library card. Think the library is only about books? […]
Toronto Police Cricket Club will tour Barbados from April 21 to May 1. During their stay the team is scheduled to play a number of friendly limited over matches against the following clubs: Pioneer Cavalier, Wanderers, North Stars, Central and Maxwell. The Toronto Police CC plays friendly cricket matches at their home ground, the Percy Cummins Cricket […]
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala – The UN food relief agency has committed to assisting 1.6 million people hit by droughts exacerbated by El Niño in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti and building resilience against future climatic shocks. Speaking at the end of visits to El Salvador and Guatemala to see the compounded impact of El […]
The big-name winners at this year’s Juno awards are getting lots of hype and publicity but The Caribbean Camera would like to place the spotlight on an emerging entertainer and vocalist with diverse talent from Spanish Town, Jamaica, who walked away with the Reggae Recording of the Year. Jeffery ‘Kafinal’ Williams, a Toronto resident known […]
The constant call by advocates for migrant workers to be granted access to permanent residence and settlement services has been given a boost in a new report, the first of its kind, Migrant Workers: Precarious and Unsupported. The report was released by Canada’s nine national, regional and provincial umbrella of organizations serving newcomers and compiles […]
Trouble has erupted among those tasked with conducting the official inquiry into the fatal riots at Guyana’s Camp Street Prison in Georgetown. In a dispute that spilled over into Facebook, Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters – who is representing the police and prison services at the Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths at […]
Premier Kathleen Wynne pledged to meet with Black Lives Matter activists to address racism and police violence in Toronto, stating that “We are undertaking a review of the SIU, the Special Investigations Unit. We are reviewing all of the police oversight bodies.” Wynne called on the movement to help her as they are on the […]
MIAMI, Florida – More questions are being asked concerning the involvement and potential benefit on the part of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) in a $10 million Ponzi scheme that is alleged to have generated profits from “bridge loans” to businesses in Jamaica. JAMPRO is a Jamaican government agency created to be the country’s primary […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Though it may not have had the numbers as in previous years, Jamaica Carnival’s Road March made a comeback to the streets of the Corporate Area last Sunday. Julianne Lee, a director of Jamaica Carnival, said she was however pleased with its staging. “It was a great dry run and we had […]
