CHRISTMAS FUN: Soca Parang King Crazy has his fans lapping up his performance last Sunday at the Scarborough Convention Centre, where he made his first appearance in Toronto for the 2013 Christmas season. The “lovable lunatic”, as he is called, is credited for creating the Soca Parang genre — a mixture of calypso and parang, […]
By Gerald V. Paul Some members of the community worry the federal government is trying to use Canada’s refugee resettlement programme for political expediency, instead of helping people in need. Historically, private sponsors select their own refugees, often based on family times here and shared religions and ethnicities. But they say their decision-making power has […]
By Dianne Ojar-Ali Author, Mrs Fraud and You Do you know that Romance and Dating Scams are on the rise? Did you know that in over four years, Canadians have reported losses of approximately $50 million? Do you also know that from 2010 to 2013 the number of victims has doubled, and that is only […]
By Jasminee Sahoye Some hate email, social media messages and a recent act of “sabotage” may force a Jamaica-born woman, who opened a restaurant in July this year in a small town outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba to pack up and leave. Thea Morris, whose restaurant – Thea’s Diner – is located in the town of […]
By Gerald V. Paul QUEEN’S PARK: Among the people to thank for Lincoln Alexander Day, come January 21? Trinidad and Tobago- born, Scarborough-Rouge Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon. It was Balkissoon who sponsored a bill to declare January 21 in honour of the late Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, who was the first black person to hold […]
By Shyreen Ramsumair The TDSB has decided that this year was (my school) Henry Kelsey’s year to do the District Review. A District Review is when principals from another school visit other Toronto District School Board (TDSB) schools and ask the students about the curriculum and learning goals we are focusing on at the moment. […]
Cricket Canada last Tuesday, announced that Gus Logie the national team cricket coach has been let go with immediate effect. Logie, 53 , the former West Indies batsman who played 52 Tests and 158 ODIs between 1981 and 1993 was appointed national coach in the mid 2012 succeeding Michael Dighton, but during his tenure the […]
HAITIAN CHRISTMAS: Members of the Caribbean Diplomatic Corps get into the spirit of the Christmas season at the 4th annual Pierspective Entraide Humanitaire (PEH) fundraising gala in support of charitable initiatives in Haiti, held last Saturday at the Don Valley Hotel and Suites. Here, Haitian Consul General Dr Eric Pierre, right, greets Jamaican Consul General […]
By Gerald V. Paul In the wake of a $65 million racial profiling suit filed last week against the Toronto Police, the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC), joined by the Justice is Not Colour Blind (JNCB) organization along with three civilian plaintiffs have filed a class -action $125 million suit for systemic racial profiling against […]
Annie Dookhan, a Trinidad-born drug analyst who tampered with evidence and jeopardized tens of thousands of criminal convictions in Boston, Massachusettes, was sentenced Friday to three to five years in state prison, closing a sorrowful chapter for the woman at the center of a scandal that continues to plague the state’s criminal justice system. The […]
