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 […]
HAVANA, Cuba – Cuban President Raul Castro said that Donald Trump’s hardline stance towards the country marks “a setback” in relations with the United States after ties were gradually restored in 2015. “The announcements made by the current president… mean a setback in bilateral relations,” Castro said on Friday in remarks, broadcast on state television, […]
Toronto rapper Drake picked up 13 awards at Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, beating the previous record of 12 held by Adele. Drake had earned 10 awards in early winners announced Sunday morning and won an 11th for top male artist in the first minutes of the show He beat out Beyoncé, […]
NEW YORK – When Nevisian Floyel Stapleton appeared in a Manhattan Criminal Court in New York for a routine hearing in his misdemeanour assault case, he was stunned to be met by US federal immigration agents as he left the courtroom. “I didn’t know they were there. They were in plain clothes. They had no […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Michael Belnavis, Chairman of Jamaica’s National Cruise Council (NCC), says upgrading of the Dunn’s River Falls attraction in Ocho Rios will further boost Jamaica’s growing cruise sector. Belnavis said that Jamaica was already on course to becoming the number-one cruise destination in the region and that the recent Dunn’s River upgrade has […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Caribbean tourism broke new ground in 2016, surpassing 29 million arrivals for the first time ever, and once again growing faster than the global average. “Despite political, security and economic uncertainties and challenges in our main source markets, tourist arrivals to the Caribbean increased by 4.2 per cent in 2016, better than […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The government of Jamaica has turned down the United Kingdom’s offer to assist in the building of a new maximum-security prison in the island. This was disclosed in the Senate on Friday by minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith. “This administration does not believe that the terms […]
By Carlton Joseph The New Year is here and many of us resolve to improve our organizations, our community and ourselves. This is normal behavior for all thinking people and organizations. This year I would like us to step outside of our personal resolutions and focus our energies on evaluating an organization that was established […]
By Gerald V. Paul The names of police officers who are investigated by the SIU should be made public, even when the SIU decides not to charge them, the Independent Police Oversight Review was told at a public meeting last Thursday evening, at Metro Hall in Toronto. The recommendation was made to Justice Michael Tulloch […]
This week’s question: Do you believe that Caribbean and Mexican migrant farm workers in Canada should be granted permanent resident status? Michelle Dickson Program Coordinator No I don’t think they should be granted permanent residence status as I assume most workers are the sole providers for their family. We wouldn’t just be […]
