Premier Kathleen Wynne pledged to meet with Black Lives Matter activists to address racism and police violence in Toronto, stating that “We are undertaking a review of the SIU, the Special Investigations Unit. We are reviewing all of the police oversight bodies.” Wynne called on the movement to help her as they are on the […]
CASTRIES, St. Lucia – A new home port initiative is expected to increase tourist arrivals in St. Lucia between November and March. P&O Cruise Lines has selected the island to be its home port destination as part of a seven-night cruise program. The cruise ship Britannia will sail from Southampton, U.K., to St. Lucia […]
ROSEAU, Dominica – Discover Dominica Authority has announced that Andy Narell has been included as one of the performers for the seventh Dominica’s Jazz ‘n Creole Festival. The festival takes place on Sunday, May 15. Narell released his first solo album in 1979 with the inclusion of the steel pan in a jazz band. He […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Though it may not have had the numbers as in previous years, Jamaica Carnival’s Road March made a comeback to the streets of the Corporate Area last Sunday. Julianne Lee, a director of Jamaica Carnival, said she was however pleased with its staging. “It was a great dry run and we had […]
“It’s our nature to care. We provide quality care at affordable rates to the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions,” Vivienne Dickson, co-owner and CEO of A Supreme Nursing and Home Care, told Eyes on a visit to their offices. Jamaican born Dickson and her Caribbean team with an executive member serving in Bosnia, as […]
Let’s be clear: Black Lives do Matter. Witness the contribution Black people the world over have made to the prosperity we all enjoy today. But we as people of colour have real reasons to grumble. We are facing challenges. We want to participate fully in the life of our country, Canada. Think about the economic […]
HAVANA, Cuba – Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba’s minister of foreign affairs, stressed in a telephone interview with public media in Ecuador that the lifting of the U.S. embargo should be a unilateral act by the United States. The Cuban foreign minister explained that the end of the economic, financial and commercial sanctions applied by Washington against […]
MIAMI, Florida – The U.S. government and the Securities Exchange Commission on March 15 indicted Mark A. Jones, former chairman and VP of Global Gateway Solutions Inc., with defrauding retirees in a “bridge loan fund” Ponzi scheme. Jones was arrested in Miami on March 13 and on March 15 was bound over to Judge […]
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” Then the righteous answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did you see me […]
Canadian-born of Guyanese and Jamaican parents, Patricia J. Jaggernauth is among the 15 Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) 34th-annual Harry Jerome Awards recipients announced last Tuesday. The formal presentation is slated for April 23 at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. Jaggernauth, the recipient of the media award, seen since June on CP24 as […]
