Chris Gayle – world-class batsman. Chris Gayle, the 36-year-old Jamaican and West Indies opening batsman, will join eight other West Indian players in the Bangladesh Premier League which starts next month. The big hitting left-hander, rated as a world-class T20 batsman, was the first player to have scored a century in international Twenty20 cricket. Gayle […]
Roland Holder – top teams in Caribbean. West Indies will host reigning ICC ODI World Champions Australia and current World No. 3 South Africa in a Tri-Nation 10-match ODI tournament from June 6 to 26, 2016. A release by West Indies Cricket Board says three matches are to be played at Providence Stadium in Guyana and […]
Canadians decisively rejected Stephen Harper and a continuation of the policies of his Conservative government in the election last week. The Conservatives were in office for nine years, during which time Canada was one of the few developed economies not to suffer serious economic slowdown and remained immune to the financial crisis which ravaged […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Chinese restaurant owners fear untold damage has been done to their businesses in the aftermath of a video showing Chinese nationals skinning a dog and Health Minister Dr. Fuad Khan’s statements allegedly equating reduction of the stray dog population to dog meat being served to diners at Chinese restaurants. Sales […]
With a little over two months to the official opening of Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games, the Jamaican team is finalizing preparations for their visit here in July. The island’s Tourist Board says Jamaica House Toronto will be home base for their athletes, Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica from July 20 to […]
By Gerald V. Paul As Fly Jamaica Airways celebrates its second anniversary, the airline held a love-in recently in Toronto with travel agents fielding questions, challenges and offering solutions and sharing experiences. “Right now our planes are underutilized. If you have the traffic, we have the planes. Our business is world-wide. Not just Guyana. Not […]
By Gerald V. Paul “We must rescue our young people,” an impassioned Lloyd Wilks, Jamaican consul general to Toronto, told the welcome reception of the country’s new high commissioner to Canada Tuesday evening. Speaking at the Jamaican Canadian Centre where Janice Miller was being introduced, Wilks, a career diplomat with more than 25 years in […]
By Gerald V. Paul Guyana’s Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall – accused by Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall of expressing plans to kill him – “should resign or be removed over the statements he made in a conversation with Kaieteur News senior reporter Leonard Gildarie,” the Guyana Bar Association and the […]
By Nicole Brooks Dancers help celebrate the Orishas in the film The Orisha Suite showing as part of the Caribbean Tales International Film Festival. The film shows on Saturday at an outdoor screening at Black Creek Farm. The Jane and Finch community is in for a treat Saturday when the ninth-annual CaribbeanTales International Film Festival […]
Come on down. From left, Brad Richards, Carolyn James, Racquel Brown, the new St. Kitts Tourism Authority CEO, and John Allen want everyone to visit St. Kitts, an “authentic” destination. By Gerald V. Paul Newly minted chief executive officer of the St. Kitts Tourism Authority Racquel Brown came to Toronto to sing the praises of […]
