GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The police have held a Trinidadian man after he reportedly faked his own kidnapping with the help of two other Trinidadians. The police report that Sawak Maraj, 33,who arrived here on Friday, claiming that he came for a job interview, was picked up at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport by two other […]
The Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario last week found that Dr.Wycliffe Baird, a Kittian-born general practitioner based in Mississauga, committed an act of professional misconduct “in that he engaged in sexual abuse of a patient.” The Committee also found that he engaged in conduct or an act or omission […]
Says finance minister at Toronto meeting By Lincoln DePradine Jamaica’s “biggest crisis’’ is not lack of economic growth, says the country’s finance minister Audley Shaw. Nor is it crime which claimed 167 lives in August alone and is a major problem, Shaw told a Toronto audience on Sunday. “Our truly greatest crisis is a crisis […]
QUEBEC — The Quebec national assembly has passed a controversial religious neutrality bill that obliges citizens to uncover their faces while giving and receiving state services. Members of the national assembly voted 66-51 in favour of Bill 62 yesterday. Tabled by Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee in 2015, it is the governing Liberals’ response to the […]
OTTAWA – Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, has announced changes to the Citizenship Act which came into effect yesterday (October 11). Hussen who made the announcement last week, said amendments to the Act are the fulfillment of a central Liberal election platform plank that promised to rid the Act of ” […]
Toronto Police are appealing to the public for assistance with their investigation into the murder last Friday of John Trevor Paul, 32, a St. Lucia-born man who was shot in the Sheridan Mall in Toronto. Paul who lived in Toronto, was the second victim of a fatal shooting in the mall within a month. Emergency […]
A large group of supporters of the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) held a rally in Toronto on Saturday to protest the defunding of the Clinic by Legal Aid Ontario. The rally started at the front of the 52 Division Police station and made its way east to the office of Legal Aid Ontario. From […]
By Louis March Seven shootings in six days, with two fatalities. That was the tally in Toronto last week, and not one word of concern heard from political leaders at all three levels of government. Over the past three years, we have seen an almost 100 per cent increase in gun homicides and incidents in […]
Kenneth Jeffers, the lone Black member of the Toronto Police Services Board, is calling for a “stronger position” in reviewing the case of Dafonte Miller, a 19-year old Black man from Whitby who was allegedly beaten with a steel pipe which left him blinded in the left eye and with a broken nose, jaw and […]
The mothers are members of the Zero Gun Violence Movement which has held several demonstrations and led a delegation to Ottawa calling on the federal government for tougher gun laws. More than a hundred people took part in the march in Toronto on August 19 last which began at City Hall and ended at Queen’s […]
