By Jasminee Sahoye A two-day event aimed at exploring the future of Canada’s immigration system will take place April 13-14 at the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa, hosted by the Conference Board’s National Immigration Centre. The Canadian Immigration Summit 2015 hopes to tap into major stakeholders from across Canada’s immigration system who will share the […]
One of the 26 candidates vying to be Ward 4 councillor in Mississauga in the upcoming byelection slated for April 27 is of West Indian heritage. Hardat Prasad Sookraj is a long-time resident of Mississauga and a former businessman and community event volunteer. He recently participated in the Caribbean Seniors social at Square One Older […]
By Gerald V. Paul As a boy, I bore witness to my beloved mother Rose experiencing domestic violence in my Mother Guyana. “Help! Help me,” my suffering mother cried. “Help son … Help!” I stood helpless. Stunned. Transfixed in time. And did not go to my mother’s rescue. Helpless to help. Lord, have mercy. So, […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon A 65-year-old Trinidadian has succeeded in Federal Court in having a negative decision with respect to an application for a Temporary Resident Visa (visitor’s visa) and authorization to return to Canada. While this decision is of public record and I can mention his real name, it is not my practice to do […]
Cricket with Dalchand Bissoon Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies mystery off-spinner Sunil Narine’s bowling action has been cleared by the Board of Control of Cricket (BCCI) in India and he will now be able to bowl for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League 2015. Narine underwent a biomechanical assessment at the […]
By Jasminee Sahoye A study has discovered that men who have children at older ages are more likely to have grandchildren with autism compared to younger grandfathers. The study was led by King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. Researchers identified 5,936 individuals from Swedish […]
Home business Expansion Breakdown of enterprise expansion It is very critical for an organization to use a good strategy and procedure in terms of increasing into new places or areas. Expansion presents in it a number of features, among them is the increase in the earnings from your profit of products or services, as well […]
By Michael Lashley “We invite people to live intentionally, in a generative, thoughtful way, and we give them a bunch of tools.” (Dave Evans, Stanford University) Thanks to the intervention of my friend Richard de Lima, I have found yet another example of practical solutions to the challenges we face at all stages of our […]
By Gerald V. Paul “Like so many other Canadians, everyone is deeply saddened by the loss of Daundre Barnaby, a young athlete of character who made a profound commitment to our country and made all Canadians proud,” Toronto Pan Am Games CEO Saad Rafi said, referring to the runner’s death in St. Kitts. Rafi said […]
By Gerald V. Paul “To be a genuine leader, an educational institution must show the way to both learners and the community of which it’s a part; that is to say, the education it provides must be relevant and it must be progressive.” So said the late G. Raymond Chang at the 2014 University of […]
