Releases song called “Black Averageness” As people begin their new year, and get ready to tackle new goals and aspirations, one Canadian hip hop artist is suggesting that it’s OK to be just OK. “Black excellence is a beautiful thing to celebrate,” affirmed Shad. “But I think that freedom, real freedom is when we can […]
As we enter a new year with the all too familiar presence of the coronavirus of one variation or another, governments and associated medical agencies and experts are beginning to give us reason for optimism. Whereas in the past months with the virus running rampant, the options for dealing with the pandemic were down […]
How to battle “The Big Three” side effects of menopause: insomnia, hot flashes and weight gain. If you’re experiencing the side effects of menopause and would like to avoid hormones, there are many things that may help. Here are some suggestions for how to deal with the symptoms that I call The Big Three: Hot Flashes […]
By Mansa B. K. Musa Chances are, many people may have heard the ancestral saying that, “We become what we eat.” Or this other slice of Wisdom: “What’s destroying many people nowadays is not what they eat or drink, but what is in those products that are killing them.” As many of us celebrated […]
Besides not requiring deep-freezing, this protein-based vaccine gives upwards of 90 percent protection against symptomatic COVID-19 when offered in three-dose schemes. Last Monday, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) became the first country in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to authorize the use of Abdala, a COVID-19 vaccine made in Cuba. Previously, prime minister Ralph Gonsalves […]
“Annus horribilis” was Queen Elizabeth’s description of the year 1992 in her New Year’s address to her nation and the world. We must thank her for providing us with an apt description of 2021 as the year limps to an end in a few days. Unlike other years when people debated what the worst and […]
The 81-year-old had joked he was ‘getting ready’ for the holiday season earlier this month when it emerged he was back at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo for further treatment following the removal of a tumour on his colon on September 4. And in his first words since being told he could go […]
The United Nations cultural agency placed a traditional Haitian soup widely seen as a symbol of the nation’s independence on its prized intangible cultural heritage list. Joumou soup is “so much more than just a dish”, said Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of UNESCO. “It tells the story of the heroes and heroines of Haitian independence, […]
What do doctors think about weight loss resolutions? Diets don’t usually stick. In fact, Carol Landau, Ph.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and medicine at the Alpert Medical School, Brown University shares “You’ll do better if you have goals that have to do not with weight, but with health”. Dr. David Katz, MD agrees “A focus […]
The federal government introduced a bill in the House of Commons last Tuesday that would repeal mandatory minimum penalties for drug offences and some gun-related crimes. It would allow a judge to exercise discretion in imposing sentences that relate to the facts of the case, including considerations of the individual’s experience with systemic racism and […]
