Marisa Giulietti has withdrawn as a candidate for school board trustee in York Region in the April 25 by-election and has endorsed Jamaica-born Charline Grant, the mother of three young children, and one of a dozen candidates now in the race. In announcing her withdrawal last week, Guilietti called on voters in Vaughan wards one […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica has been listed in the Top 25 “Best Destinations in the World” for 2019 on renowned travel website TripAdvisor. According to a report from the Ministry of Tourism, the TripAdvisor rating ranks the island among destinations such as London, Rome and Paris. Jamaica was ranked Number 14 on the TripAdvisor Travelers’ […]
By Lincoln DePradine For more than two hours last Saturday at York University, a bleak and disheartening picture – well-known to almost everyone in the room and to millions more across Canada – was presented of racism, unfair treatment and other difficulties confronting Black students, and parents desperate to help their children succeed at school. […]
Stephon Alexander, a physics professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and president of the National Society of Black Physicists in the United States, will address a symposium on “the science of the steelpan” at the University of Toronto on Monday. Alexander who is a also jazz musician and author of The Jazz of Physics: The […]
Buns Of Steel Helping men get fit with workouts at home and at work By Stephen Weir Jamaican fitness guru Andre Rose is holding a book launch tonight and he knows that everyone is going to want to look at his Buns of Steel. No, not his rear end (although it’s in fine shape). It […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The United States says it is providing US$1.6 million to Trinidad and Tobago to assist Venezuelans fleeing the economic and political situation in that South American country. A statement issued by the US Embassy here said that the funds have been made available through the United States Agency for International […]
Trinidad-born Dylan Chidick, 17, who came to the United States with his mother and twin brothers when he was seven years old and has been in and out of homelessness, has received letters of acceptance from 17 colleges. His family had relocated to New Jersey from Trinidad in search of a better life but fell […]
By David Jessop From Iraq, through Libya to Syria, the approach to regime change by the US and its allies has been to support the removal of a disliked government with little serious thought as to the broader consequences. Absent in these and other lower intensity conflicts has been any informed long-term thinking or planning […]
Two women, described as trailblazers in the Black community, and four outstanding Black students including a recent graduate, were honoured last week at 11th annual Viola Desmond Awards Ceremony held at Ryerson University in Toronto. The two women – Dr. Karline Wilson- Mitchell and Amanda Taylor Wheatle – received awards along with university and high […]
By Lincoln DePradine Sonia Marville-Carter arrived in Toronto late last year, just as winter was setting in, to be Barbados’ top diplomat in Toronto. She says she has been enjoying the working relationship with her colleagues in the Caribbean consular corps, as well as her interaction with members of the city’s Barbadian and Caribbean […]
