OTTAWA — The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has updated its guidance on vaccination priorities to include adults from racialized communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and all essential workers, in the second stage of the vaccination campaign. The second stage is expected to start this spring after provinces get COVID-19 vaccines into the […]
EDITORIAL Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine So the mighty COVID-19 has kept the pre-lenten carnival revellers off the streets of Trinidad this year. The spectacular Trinidad carnival after which the Toronto mas’ extravaganza is modelled, would have been held this week but alas the unrelenting coronavirus did not allow it. And in […]
By Lincoln DePradine Normally, in the pre-Coronavirus pandemic era, Dr Onye Nnorom would have been returning to Toronto after participating in the annual carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago. The family physician, who is the daughter of Trinidadian and Nigerian parents, admits that she missed not being able to attend Trinidad’s 2021 carnival that was […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Triston Thompson, chief opportunity explorer for Tacaya, a consulting and brokerage firm for Jamaica’s nascent legal cannabis industry, calls the latest shortage of marijuana in the country “a cultural embarrassment”. The government’s Cannabis Licensing Authority — which has authorized 29 cultivators and issued 73 licenses for transportation, retail, processing and other activities […]
Although there are thousands of names on the waiting list for affordable housing in the City of Toronto, Mayor John Tory remains optimistic that ” the situation will improve in 2021″ In a recent interview with The Caribbean Camera,Tory noted that the problem of homelessness is eventually going to be solved by the building of […]
After being detained at Toronto International airport for four days, a 60-year old grandfather from Guyana, suspected of having illegal drugs in his possession, was finally released last week without any charges being laid against him. No illegal drugs were found. And now his family is looking at their ” legal options ” Surijpaul Deokeran, […]
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Ontario’s civilian police watchdog, is probing the circumstances of the death of Anthony Aust, a 23- year old man who fell from his 12th floor apartment last week during an Ottawa police drug raid in which tactical officers used a controversial ” dynamic entry” to search the apartment. The SIU […]
By David Jessop Wealthy countries are vying to be the first to produce and roll out a fully tested and safe vaccine, test their citizens, and seize the global financial opportunity that being first presents.David Jessop asks how prepared the Caribbean is to respond to vaccine nationalism. How well prepared is the Caribbean to respond […]
A team of researchers has started testing persons in the Black community in Ontario for COVID-19 infection “as indicated by antibody responses. ” Lead investigator Dr. Upton Allen, head of the is the Infectious Diseases Division at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, says persons with antibody responses to COVID-19 are more likely than […]
Vitamin C could be the key to better muscles in later life—according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). A study published last week shows that older people who eat plenty of vitamin C—commonly found in citrus fruits, berries and vegetables—have the best skeletal muscle mass. This is important because people tend […]
