Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders announced his plans on Monday to step down this summer. His announcement comes amid growing protests around the world about the treatment of Black people by law enforcement, including the Toronto Police service. Saunders, the department’s first black chief, took over the organization in 2015 after three decades on the […]
Trinidad-born Justice of the Peace Prior Noel Bonas who was a widely known promoter of ” Carnival fetes,” died at his home in Brampton last Thursday after a brief ilness, He was 71. His wife, Sandra, said he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last April. Bonas who came to Canada in 1972, worked as an […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s planning to push provincial premiers to equip police with body-worn cameras as a rapid, substantive solution to allegations of racism and brutality. The cameras document police officers’ interactions with the public and Trudeau says they’re one relatively simple way to address complaints that police in Canada treat […]
CASTRIES, St Lucia – Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) and its member cricket boards to speak out against social injustice and racism, amid public outrage in the United States and across the globe over the death of a Black man in police custody. Sammy, stressing that the […]
LOS ANGELES — National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Michael Jordan decried “ingrained racism” in the United States as the sports world’s reaction to the death of unarmed black man George Floyd leapt leagues and continents. “I am deeply saddened, truly pained and plain angry,” Jordan said on Sunday as protests over Floyd’s death on May […]
Letter from the Publisher Happy birthday to us Dear Readers, We are proud to announce that The Caribbean Camera is now 30 years old. Unfortunately, at this time , we are experiencing problems which we have never had before in the entire history of the newspaper. As many of our faithful readers are aware, back […]
Toronto police have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a teen wanted in connection with a gunfight that claimed the life of Toronto rapper Dimarjio Jenkins known as Houdini. He was one of Canada’s most streamed independent rappers last year, with 19.2 million plays on Spotify. He is best known for tracks including Late Nights, Myself, […]
By Lincoln Depradine Thousands of people in Canada, the Caribbean and other parts of the world, have joined millions in the United States in expressing anger at the police killing in Minnesota of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man. A medical examiner on Monday classified Floyd’s death as a homicide, saying the man’s heart stopped […]
WASHINGTON — The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa F Etienne, said maintaining social distancing measures, improving surveillance, and strengthening health systems are the three keys to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Dr Etienne said during the past week there were 732,000 new cases globally, and […]
Kifayat Mohammed, one of the founders of The Caribbean Camera, died at the Brampton Civic hospital on Saturday.He was 75. His daughter, Faadia, said he had been ailing for some time with Parkinson disease. Mohammed who was the Chief Financial Officer of the Mirror Group of newspapers in Trinidad, came to Canada in 1989. Along […]
