Former deputy police chief Peter Sloly – three months after his retirement – has moved to Deloitte Canada as an executive director. Sloly, who often sat during Toronto Police Board meetings just listening, will be advising clients at Deloitte on cybersecurity. In addition, Sloly will focus on crisis response and digital media and work on […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, grandson of the man at the heart of Jamaica’s Rastafarian movement, is on a nine-day trip to the Caribbean island, half a decade after the state visit of his late grandfather, emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie. The prince, accompanied by his wife Princess Saba Kebede, will stay in Jamaica […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The head of the local Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Joseph Harris, is leading a petition seeking to “free” remand prisoners who have been behind bars longer than the maximum prison term they would have gotten if they had been found guilty of their crimes. The petition, circulated to priests and […]
While former Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon plays hide-and-seek with the media, defeated NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan has announced she hopes to step in a fill his shoes for the Grits. The first MP of Tamil heritage is seeking the provincial Scarborough-Rouge River seat in a byelection expected to be called within six months. A native […]
As thousands of refugees reach Canada’s shores, a Jamaican-born man is begging Canada to help him return here. “If I don’t get home, I’m going to die,” said former Toronto Argonaut Andrew Stewart who is fighting to return to Canada for life-saving treatment. Stewart who has been told he has three to five months to […]
This weeks question How do you explain to your child that Grandpa is now Grandma? Signed Miss Papa’s a Mama. Man oh man this one is tough, or is it woman oh woman? Person oh person??? What is politically correct these days (I don’t want any group coming after me). To answer this […]
Yesterday marked Donald Moore Day across Canada. Originally from Barbados where he was born in 1891, Moore came to Canada in 1913 and was an outstanding leader and advocate for human rights and citizenship. His civic engagement would be felt for generations to come. On April 27, 1954, Moore – affectionately known as […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Andrew Holness has undertaken to have cabinet review the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People for its implications for the Jamaican Rastafari community. Holness gave the undertaking at a Jamaica House meeting with a delegation from the Rastafari Millennium Council (RMC), who visited him last week on […]
NEW YORK CITY – TIME, the world’s biggest news magazine, has named Janet Jagan, a former president of Guyana, as one of history’s most rebellious women. In honour of International Women’s Day, the renowned magazine carried an article featuring what it described as some unlikely revolutionaries. Also named in the magazine’s top 16 were: Joan […]
In a Caribbean version of the journey to success a father who travelled the world and even swam in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is teaming up with his daughter to keep that momentum by training truck drivers. Shellisa Rohoman-Bridgelal of Foxy Industries and radio personality fame is teaming up with her dad, Jack […]
