The return of the Martin Luther King Awards

The return of the Martin Luther King Awards

By Lincoln DePradine Educator and author Rosemary Sadlier has spent much of her adult life as a social justice advocate and has been recognized for her work, especially her contribution to Canada’s Black community. She has just received another of many awards and calls this latest one, “very meaningful’’. Sadlier was among a group recognized […]

Peter David looking to succeed Keith Mitchell as party leader in Grenada

Peter David looking to succeed Keith Mitchell as party leader in Grenada

By Lincoln DePradine Dr Keith Mitchell, the former Grenada Prime Minister who had indicated that the 2022 election campaign was his final as he prepared to close the door on politics, is showing no sign of leaving anytime soon, but could face a challenge to his leadership stranglehold on the opposition New National Party (NNP). […]

Giving recruited Kenyan health-care workers a soft landing

Giving recruited Kenyan health-care workers a soft landing

Plans are underway to make sure health-care workers recruited from Kenya will have what they need to start their new lives in Nova Scotia following a provincial recruitment trip to refugee camps, as well as the capital Nairobi. Housing should be available before people arrive, according to the federal program that jump-started the hiring initiative. That’s why long-term care provider MacLeod Group has […]

Does the Canadian army have a white supremacist problem?

Does the Canadian army have a white supremacist problem?

University of Alberta Andy Knight, a professor of international relations and the school’s first provost fellow in Black excellence and leadership, made a proposal to the federal department last fall in which he drew attention to racism in the military. Over the next year, he is to assess just how entrenched radicalization, antisemitism, xenophobia and […]

Larger-than-life painting of Willie O’Ree to be unveiled in Frederick art gallery

Larger-than-life painting of Willie O’Ree to be unveiled in Frederick art gallery

One of Fredericton’s most famous figures will have a special place on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery for years to come. Willie O’Ree — who became the first Black man to play in the NHL when he laced up for the Boston Bruins in 1958 — is the subject of a portrait expected to be […]

Jamaica’s tourism shows strong recovery in 2022

Jamaica’s tourism shows strong recovery in 2022

Jamaica’s tourism industry is rebounding strongly from the economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with earnings of $3.64 billion in 2022. Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, made the announcement during a House of Representatives session. “We ended the year equalling the record-breaking earnings of tourism of US$3.64 billion, and the [2022/23] fiscal year, […]

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns about ‘epidemic of self-censorship’

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns about ‘epidemic of self-censorship’

In 2020, Adichie’s 2006 novel Half Of A Yellow Sun was voted the best book to have won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history. In a lecture on freedom of speech, the writer said young people were growing up “afraid to ask questions for fear of asking the wrong questions”. Such a […]

Caribbean must manage the complexity of new multi-polar world

Caribbean must manage the complexity of new multi-polar world

By David Jessop Middle-ranking powers are emerging as important policy arbiters. They are seeking global outcomes that better respond to their own interests as China and the US become the dominant global economic actors, each offering competing approaches to development. This will not just further reorder the post-cold-war world but will make the Caribbean’s regional […]

This summer 5,000 revellers will be “unmask” – Louis Saldenah

This summer 5,000 revellers will be “unmask” – Louis Saldenah

By Stephen Weir How fitting.  The Louis’s Saldenah Carnival (formally the Mas K Club) holds the record of 21 “Band of the Year” titles for the annual Caribbean Carnival parade and will be starting their campaign to get Win 22 on, wait for it, April 22nd. Saldenah recent winner of an Impact Award told the […]

Police want officers back in London schools

Police want officers back in London schools

Black community disagrees London’s police union says it’s time to bring back a program that places police officers in schools, but a parent and activist argues the move would be step back for London’s Black community.  The London Police Association has posted an online petition arguing that the student resource officer (SRO) program should be reinstated.  […]