Will the African Canadian Legal Clinic in Toronto be closed after serving the community for more than 20 years? This question keep popping up with the growing concerns in the Black and Caribbean community over the future of the clinic. Fuelling these concerns are local media reports that the clinic is at risk of losing […]
Persons who are granted permanent resident status in Canada are permitted to remain in the country for the rest of their lives. However, they are required to comply with the “residency obligation” provision under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act with respect to each five year period. During that period (1825 days), they must be […]
LONDON – Police will use facial recognition software to scan the faces of tens of thousands of revellers at this year’s Notting Hill carnival even though civil liberties groups believe such an action would be discriminatory, according to The Guardian newspaper. The Metropolitan Police has described the planned deployment as a pilot project intended to […]
CORAL CREEK, Florida – The Speaker of the House in the Cayman Islands has been charged after allegedly grabbing the buttocks of a female casino employee in Florida. McKeeva Bush, a former premier, filed a written “not guilty” plea last week to a misdemeanor count of battery. “The defendant hereby enters a plea of not […]
The National Bar Association (NBA) of the United States, the largest association of African American lawyers and judges in North America, will hold its annual Convention and Exhibits at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto July 29-August 4. It will be the Association’s 92nd annual convention and the first to be held outside of […]
Out of this, an executive report was developed that outlined a number of goals to be achieved. These included the roll-out of an Intelligence Fusion Centre; the creation of a Safer Cities programme; and working with the Ministry of Justice to reduce the backlog of court cases. Dr. Francis said the group intends to offer […]
I have often written about spousal sponsorship applications and the obstacles that sponsors and/or applicants face. In many such cases, questions often come up about who is to be blamed when a spousal application is refused? Is it the officer who is dealing with the application? Or the sponsor ? Or applicant ? Let us […]
When all is said and done, those of us who live in the Caribbean, and many of us who don’t live there, have yet to face up to an inescapable truth. Our failure to face this truth is the root cause of the continued stagnation in the social and economic growth of the Caribbean region […]
The killing two years ago of Andrew Loku, a 45-year old Black man, by Toronto Police Constable Andrew Doyle was a homicide. That was the verdict of the jury at a coroner’s inquest which ended on Friday after four weeks of hearings at which 28 persons testified, including Constable Doyle. The inquest heard that on […]
A Trinidad-born woman and her husband were found dead last Thursday in New Mexico. The bodies of Ursula Tammy Kokotkiewicz, 32, who lived in Brampton and had moved to the United States, and husband, Jacob, 31, who served in the US army, were found with gunshot wounds to the head. Their bodies were found in […]
