March 11, 2020 Ottawa, Ontario Prime Minister’s Office COVID-19 is a rapidly evolving global challenge. The Government of Canada is working closely with local, provincial, territorial, and international partners to minimize its health, economic, and social impacts in Canada and around the world. We have worked closely with Canada’s trained public health and medical professionals […]
Commentary ‘All business decisions need to balance people, planet and profit’ By Dr. Jeffrey Overall “Until the philosophy, which hold one race superior and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war.” Robert (Bob) Nesta Marley At the conclusion of Black History Month, it is important to look back at our […]
Letter To the Editor Beware of the traitors on board Dear Editor Last week your editorial started well. Then to my complete surprise, it took a strange, strange turn, as a motor car careening out of control. Now let me make it clear: I totally agree with Marcus Garvey that we should publish our own […]
My bet is on Sanders to win the Democratic nomination By Carlton Joseph The recent United States Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, the first in which former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg participated, was one of the most contentious of the long primary season. Bloomberg did not qualify for previous debates because his campaign […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Over the years, several persons without status have consulted my office with respect to regularizing their status in Canada. Most of them entered Canada as visitors, overstayed their time, accepted employment without a work permit, and have family and friends in Canada. One such person is Gloria from the Caribbean who was […]
By Chris Ramsaroop As Canada lobbies members of CARICOM for a seat on the UN Security Council, we take this opportunity to highlight the labour and human right conditions faced by Caribbean and Mexican migrant labourers who are employed in Canada under the auspices of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP). Since 1966 hundreds […]
By: Kereisha Biggs They “They took something from me” That was the first thing he said when I met him A little boy with tight coils in his hair That was his response When I asked him why he was there He was a stranger But I recognized something familiar in his eyes His […]
By Carlton Joseph While Americans were distracted with impeachment trials, democratic primaries, Trump tweets and other ‘inconsequential matters’, the Trump administration kept dismantling the administrative apparatus of the United States (US) government, and quietly pushing forward its attack on the poorest and most oppressed sectors of the US society. Of course, it is disguising its […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Novel Coronavirus: What you need to know By Heather Aspinall Robinson Public concern remains high as the world turns its attention to the newly emerged Coronavirus. This new coronavirus has caused an outbreak that started in Hubei, China and subsequently spread to several countries in recent months. On January 30, 2020, the […]
Timothy Antoine, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) said the climate crisis is an existential threat to the Caribbean. At the Toronto Centre’s climate finance talks in Ottawa, The climate change risk is emerging as an urgent issue facing the global financial sector its leaders and citizens of the region have good reason […]
