The growing epidemic of mental health problems in Toronto’s Black community is largely unknown and not appropriately addressed. So said Liben Gebremikael, executive director of TAIBU community health centre in Scarborough, in a recent interview with The Caribbean Camera. Gebremikael was discussing the significance of Black Mental Day, the first of whicn was observed last […]
By Stephen Weir The 11-episode, 60 minute series, stars the Canadian athlete and ten of North America’s most decorated young athletes who compete in the sort of sports young people love, wakeboarding, gymnastics and skateboarding to name just three. This is not your average sporting saw-off. The ten athletes – five Americans and five Canadians […]
“It took me two buses, two trains and another bus to get to and from work,” writes Dorothy Cornelius in a book entitled, Our Lives, Our Heritage: Stories from African- Caribbean-Canadian Seniors in Region of Peel. Cornelius is one of 38 seniors featured in the book, which is being launched on February 29, 2020, by […]
The famous City Hall sign will be lit in red, green and yellow If you are reading the PDF version of the Caribbean Camera, and it is Wednesday night, you can come to the annual Bob Marley Day Award’s Ceremony at the Toronto Eaton Centre. If it is Thursday and you are holding the newspaper […]
Jamaicans celebrated the life and legacy of Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey on Sunday at the annual Boonoonoonoos brunch held at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto. In the keynote address at the brunch, Thando Hyman, an adjunct professor at York University’s faculty of education, reminded the gathering that Garvey’s aim was “to build […]
By Gwyn Chapman She did it! It was not too long ago that Toronto experienced thunderous, deafening screams from die-hard Raptor fans as the Raptor’s clinched its first ever NBA championship. This time, however, Toronto was captivated by a world figure and treasure who was greeted by the deafening screams that shattered the air around […]
“Hit your books, people.” That’s the advice former United States president Barack Obama gave to thousands of young people who gathered last Thursday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Obama was speaking at a forum about the future of work organized by the Economic Club of Canada and the Global Institute for Conscious Economics. “You […]
By Lincoln DePradine The world’s attention was riveted on the AIDS epidemic and the HIV virus in the 1980s. Further global spotlight was grabbed in 1991 when Earvin “Magic’’ John, the basketball superstar of the Los Angeles Lakers, retired abruptly after announcing that he had contracted HIV. It’s been 28 years since Johnson’s announcement and AIDS […]
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS), Satnarayan Maharaj, has died. He passed away shortly before midnight last Friday. Maharaj, 88, suffered a stroke in early November. Maharaj was one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most easily recognised personalities. This is owed to his prolific public speaking on matters he believed negatively impacted Hindus […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Barbados’ Rastafarian community will soon be able to lawfully use marijuana in their religious sacrament. During debate in Parliament on the Medical Cannabis Industry Bill – which was passed – Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Dale Marshall said draft legislation to allow the use of cannabis for religious purposes is being […]
