Grenada plans to  reopen tourism sector

Grenada plans to  reopen tourism sector

TRAVEL Grenada plans to  reopen tourism sector Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has announced plans to reopen the island’s tourism sector over the coming months. Speaking during an interview last Friday, Mitchell said commercial fights from the United Kingdom and hotel properties, including the Sandals Resort, will be reopened in two months. “The UK […]

Do not lie on your immigration and citizenship application forms

Do not lie on your immigration and citizenship application forms

Immigration Matters By: Sukhramn Ramkissoon Do not lie on your immigration and citizenship application forms  I recently had a telephone conversation with a reader of my column who said that he was speaking on behalf of a friend who is now a Canadian citizen.  He told me that his friend had ” some criminal charges […]

Simmons’ hundred propels Trinidad and Tobago Red Force to Super 50 title

Simmons’ hundred propels Trinidad and Tobago Red Force to Super 50 title

  ST JOHN’S, Antigua  – Ace opener Lendl Simmons blazed an imperious hundred as a dominant Trinidad and Tobago Red Force stormed to their first domestic 50-overs title in five years by crushing Guyana Jaguars by 152 runs in a lopsided final of the Regional Super50 Cup here  on Saturday night. Behind Simmons’ pulsating career-best […]

Vancouver Police have reduced street checks but advocates say they should be stopped

Vancouver Police have reduced street checks  but advocates say they should be stopped

VANCOUVER -Vancouver police say they cut the number of street checks by 94 per cent in 2020, but their data still shows a disproportionate number of  Indigenous and Black people being stopped by police without evidence of a  crime. The Vancouver Police Board  appeared satisfied with the analysis presented at its meeting on Thursday.  But […]

LabourFest returns on Saturday online

LabourFest returns on Saturday online

By Lincoln DePradine The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic last year prevented two groups from hosting a community event that organizers said was aimed at “raising awareness amongst Black youth of the lucrative careers that can be obtained in the construction industry’ However, the LabourFest – first held in 2019 – is returning this year. […]

Community organizations call on City of Toronto to develop gun violence reduction strategy

Community organizations call on City of Toronto to develop gun violence reduction strategy

The Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) and five of its “community partners” are calling on the City of Toronto to develop a ” comprehensive, coordinated and integrated strategy “to address the problem of gun and gang violence. “We are heartbroken and outraged over the latest spate of violence, including the shooting of another child. Communities are […]

An ‘action plan’ to address gun violence

An ‘action plan’ to address gun violence

Editorial An ‘action plan’ to address gun violence Louis March, the founder of the Zero Gun Violence Movement (ZGVM) of Toronto, must be tired hearing himself say the same thing over and over, year after year. But March is a man with a message – an important message that bears repeating. And he is determined […]

Heritage Minute with Oscar Peterson

Heritage Minute with Oscar Peterson

Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson’s legendary career is being celebrated in a Heritage Minute. The minute-long video chronicles the seven-time Grammy winner’s rise from a working-class Montreal family to becoming a world-renowned piano virtuoso. It touches on his encounters with greatness, such as being dubbed “the man with four hands,” and acknowledges the racism he […]

Canada pledges $81.41 million to the Caribbean Development Bank’s SDF

Canada pledges $81.41 million to the Caribbean Development Bank’s SDF

OTTAWA – Canada has pledged $81.41 million to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)’s Special Development Fund (SDF) over four years (2021 to 2024) to support the Fund’s critical role in fighting poverty and inequality. Canada is a founding member of the CDB, the region’s leading development financing institution. Canada, along with the United Kingdom, remains […]

Biden is in no position to lecture anyone about democracy

Biden is in no position to lecture anyone about democracy

COMMENTARY Biden is in no position to lecture anyone about democracy By Carlton  Joseph Delivering his first major foreign policy statement at the recent G7 summit, President Joseph Biden named China as the most serious competitor of the United States.  He insisted that the United States will confront China’s economic abuses, counter its aggressive, coercive […]