Last Sunday, Haiti’s main armed gangs agreed to a truce to allow the distribution of humanitarian aid to the thousands of people affected by the earthquake, which has left at least 2,207 dead and over 12,000 injured so far. “Congratulations to us because at this moment we have decided to make peace,” said former police […]
Canada takes the cake for dissembling, if not downright dishonesty in the case of the arrest of China’s Huawei chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, and the subsequent retaliatory arrest by China of two Canadians, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. Canada pushed its sanctimonious button. Shocked and appalled by China’s “hostage diplomacy” and its downright disregard […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Haitian judge assigned to oversee the investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has withdrawn from the case citing personal reasons, a decision that might delay the much-anticipated probe. Judge Mathieu Chanlatte, who was named to oversee the case less than a week ago, announced his decision in […]
By Lincoln DePradine Dr Leslie Yaffa – a Vaughan, Ontario, resident – is not allowing the restrictions of the Coronavirus pandemic to stop the work that she has been doing for Jamaica. She is determined to continue the activities of the Jahmeyka Project, a not-for-profit group working with organizations in Kingston, the Jamaican capital. […]
On Friday August 20th 2021, Vincentians in Canada will take to the streets to protest against the Human Rights Violations taking place in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Peaceful protest action will take place in two separate locations: Toronto, 55 Town Centre Court, Outside the YMCA – from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM local time. […]
Venezuelan opposition politician Freddy Guevara has been released from jail two days after the government of President Nicolás Maduro and opposition representatives met in Mexico. Mr Guevara had been arrested in July and charged with treason and terrorism. The release of political prisoners was one of the demands made by the opposition at the […]
The murder investigation of President Jovenel Moïse made a violent turn for authorities last Thursday when a judicial clerk working for the case was found dead in Port-au-Prince. The victim, Ernst Lafortune, was having an evening meeting with his superior, Mathieu Chanlatte, a judge investigating the murder of President Jovenel Moïse on the night […]
Brazil’s lower house of Congress has voted in favour of expelling a lawmaker who has been accused of ordering the murder of her husband. Evangelical gospel singer and pastor turned politician Flordelis de Souza has always maintained she is innocent. The 60-year-old’s husband, Anderson do Carmo, was shot 30 times at their home in Rio […]
The mainstream media, on behalf of the governmental authorities and associated medical departments, were full of dire warnings of impeding COVID doom in Japan, when the country, together with the International Olympic Committee, insisted that the 2020 Tokyo games would be staged as rescheduled in 2021. How could they? Or words like that emanated from […]
Pierre Richard Thomas has lived in Repentigny, Que., for six years, and throughout that time, he has dreaded the day when a local police intervention would end with a Black man dying. The Black man who was fatally shot by police was Jean René Junior Olivier, whose mother had called 911 to bring him to […]
