Having spent the last four days searching for good news about how to deal with the economic crisis that is holding the world in unending suspense, I am still battling with myself over the meager harvest I have in hand. Fortunately, I am an expert in counting my blessings and enjoying them. The more limes […]
With Everton Biddersingh found guilty of first-degree murder of his daughter, Toronto Coun. Michael Thompson has renewed his call for improved co-ordination between local, provincial and federal bodies to monitor newly arrived children and ensure their well-being. Thompson, himself a child who came to Canada from Jamaica to be with his Mom, stressed the need […]
Mayor John Tory donned his skates in the name of cultural diversity and hosted a New Year’s skating party including Caribbean entertainers at the inaugural Celebrate Scarborough last Saturday at Scarborough Civic Centre. Tory moved the annual New Year’s event from the usual spot at Nathan Phillips Square to Albert Campbell Square to meet and […]
Sophia Findlay has been given the International Women Achievers Award (IWAA) Media Award. The Jamaica-born Findlay is a veteran journalist and advertising executive both in Jamaica and Canada and a mother and community builder. Findlay is looking forward to having numerous family and friends join her at the IWAA gala on March 5 at the […]
The CRTC decision to sit on its hands until sometime in 2017 instead of ordering Rogers to resume the local news it promised to broadcast on its five ethnic TV stations ignores the importance of local news to those communities, said Kelly Dobbs, president of Unifor 723M, the union local representing OMNI workers in Toronto. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An inactive Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training use was shipped back to Cuba by mistake where it has remained since 2014. The Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile (ASM) first developed to be fired from helicopters for anti-tank use but later models were developed for precision strikes by the U.S. or […]
While Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders has been repeatedly taken to task on racial profiling and carding, he stressed that the issue is currently in the hands of the provincial government, specifically with Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Yasir Naqvi. Naqvi’s task is to draft regulations for every police service in Ontario. And, […]
The Ontario government has passed legislation that standardizes what background information is released from police records. Police can now only release information in background checks with the permission of the person involved and after the person has reviewed what police plan to release. The legislation is the first of its type in Ontario and impacts […]
When The Camera reached Dr. Eric Pierre, consul general of Haiti, with the news that his fellow countryman and iconoclastic writer Dany Laferriere is an Order of Canada honouree, he was overjoyed. A longtime admirer of Laferriere’s work, Pierre asked, “Do you know that Dany Laferriere was chosen to take seat No. 2 at the […]
SANYA, China – The first ever dreadlocked Miss World contestant, Miss Jamaica World Dr. Sanneta Myrie, finished in the top five of the 2015 Miss World Competition in China. Myrie, a medical doctor, had joined Spain, Russia, Indonesia, and Lebanon in the top five but the 65th edition of the pageant was won by Spanish […]
