In a radio interview, Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report, reacted to recent attacks in Paris. The French – this goes for the British and for the Americans too – they’re like pyromaniacs who’ve set a fire that they can’t control. It’s the fire of Islamic fundamentalist jihad carefully stoked for nearly four […]
VALETTA, Malta – Following an effective smear campaign conducted on her behalf, “Baroness Shameless” (as Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper named her), aka British Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal, was selected as Commonwealth secretary general by heads of government meeting in Malta. Given that the Commonwealth Secretariat is located in Britain, and the dominant nationality of […]
Three Black singers, two of Caribbean heritage and the other a Scarborough native of Ethiopian ancestry, were among this year’s American Music Awards winners last Sunday at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Barbados native Robyn Rihanna Fenty received the award for Favourite Female Artist – Soul / R&B. She tweeted “Congrats & thank you […]
The Caribbean is ripe for investment opportunities, a sentiment solidly expressed by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) in its first investment guide launched recently in Puerto Rico at a conference. Both the editor of the Caribbean Tourism and Hospitality Investment Guide and the CTO secretary general lauded […]
As the Redblacks – the first Ottawa team in the Grey Cup since 1981 – landed in Winnipeg Tuesday looking for a win Sunday, CFL Commissioner Jeffrey Orridge kept a keen business eye on a very successful league expansion story. American-born Orridge, whose dad was Jamaican, said “I am looking forward to my first Grey […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Host of Caribbean’s Next Top Model, Wendy Fitzwilliam, is enthused by the opportunity presented by the show to showcase the best of what the region offers in the fashion and beauty industries. “It’s an opportunity to celebrate us. We don’t value ourselves because our numbers are tiny individually,but our spending ability is […]
The current stories of refugees and migrants from Central America, Cuba, Africa and the Middle East pouring out of these areas in sometimes fatal attempts to reach the U.S. and Europe are nothing new. There has never been a time in history when people were not moving from one place to the next. Recorded history […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The historic Catholic church once used by American cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones will reopen for worship next month, nearly 11 years after being devastated by fire. Indiana-born Jones used the Sacred Heart Church to launch his Peoples Temple cult in Guyana but the group was subsequently barred from the […]
ROSEAU, Dominica – The Chinese government has committed to financing reconstruction of a highway which suffered major damage during Tropical Storm Erika in late August, and help resettle residents displaced by the storm. The Edward Oliver Leblanc Highway, or West Coast Road, was significantly damaged during the storm that claimed dozens of lives and caused […]
The community is invited to a benefit dinner to launch Scarborough Hospital Foundation’s Caribbean Philanthropic Council at JC’s Banquet Hall, 1686 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, on Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. The council’s mission is to provide preventative health care measures unique to the Caribbean community. The council will carry out this mission through fundraising events […]
