By W. Andy Knight Many in Canada’s Caribbean communities may be surprised to learn that between 100 to 120 young men from the Caribbean islands have become foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Why would anyone want to leave the islands we consider tropical “paradise “for the “hell-hole” in the territory now occupied by […]
Hundreds of concerned citizens, including black activists, showed up last Thursday at the first public meeting called by the recently-formed Ontario anti-racism directorate to discuss issues related to systemic racism. Addressing the meeting, amid some heckling, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn told the gathering at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park that ” this is not a […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The former president of the United Nations General Assembly and Antigua and Barbuda’s permanent representative to the UN, John Ashe, has died before facing trial for tax fraud in a scandal that involved him allegedly taking more than US$1.3 million in bribes while in his UN post. He died of a […]
For his exemplary contributions to community development within Canada and internationally on issues of domestic and international peace, security, development, civil liberties and human rights, the Law Society of Upper Canada has bestowed on a Toronto lawyer, the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD) at its Call to the Bar ceremony last Friday […]
Declaring that transnational organised crime such as arms and drug trafficking remains a “cancer” plaguing the Caribbean, a senior United States military official has said Jamaica remains a critical partner in coordinating the regional response to the crime. “We must combat and defeat transnational organised crime, which is a cancer that plagues our region,” deputy […]
