On Saturday, countries around the world, including Canada, will observe the annual International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination which this year will focus on the midterm review of the International Decade for People of African Descent. Whether as descendants of the victims of the transatlantic slave trade or as more recent migrants, […]
ROSEAU, Dominica –Leader of the main opposition United Workers Party, Lennox Linton, complaining that the December 6 general elections were “rigged”, says his party will not recognise the results of the polls and called for fresh elections in Dominica. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit was sworn in to office last Saturday for a fourth consecutive term, […]
Former TT sprinter Ato Boldon said he is ready for a hearing, expressing confidence that contaminated tablets led his Jamaican sprinter Briana Williams to test positive for diuretic Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ). Boldon, who has coached Williams for a number of years, said, “The comments made by her attorney are what we are going with right now. […]
MONTREAL – A case against, a Madisons New York Grill & Bar restaurant in Montreal for discrimination against an English-speaking young Black hostess who wore her hair in cornrows, will proceed to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal. In March 2015, Lettia McNickle’s employment was terminated due in part to the local restaurant owner’s disapproval of […]
A matchup featuring West Indies stars and team mates Daren Sammy, Chris Gayle and Andre Russell will open the inaugural edition of Global T20 Canada. according to the schedule released on Tuesday for the first professional Twenty20 cricket league in North America. Sammy’s Toronto Nationals will face Vancouver Knights with Chris Gayle and Andre […]
A Chinese restaurant in Toronto was ordered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to pay $10,000 to a Black man after ruling that it discriminated against him by asking him and his three friends, all Black, to pay in advance for their meals. In the recent ruling, adjudicator Esi Codjoe found that Hong Shing Chinese […]
By Sylvanus Thompson Hepatitis A is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis A virus. The disease is primarily spread when an uninfected person ingests food or water that is contaminated with the faeces of an infected person. It is therefore closely associated with unsafe water or food, inadequate sanitation and poor personal hygiene. Hepatitis […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals in a doping case involving teammate Nesta Carter. The International Olympic Committee (IOC ) said yesterday that Carter tested positive for methylhexaneamine, a banned stimulant, in re-analysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Carter and Bolt were teammates on the winning […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The government of Jamaica has turned down the United Kingdom’s offer to assist in the building of a new maximum-security prison in the island. This was disclosed in the Senate on Friday by minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith. “This administration does not believe that the terms […]
Sprinter Andre De Grasse, who raced to three Olympic medals in Rio last summer, has been voted the winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as the Canadian Press male athlete of 2016. De Grasse of Markham, Ontario, earned 43 votes (66 per cent) in the annual survey of editors and broadcasters from across Canada.. Placing […]
