By Frederick Halley When the International Cricket Council (ICC) Under-19 World Cup bowls off in New Zealand next month, two players with Guyanese roots will be part of the Canadian squad vying for supremacy in the prestigious tournament. The two are 16-year-old Ashtan Deosammy and Kevin Singh. Both have been making names for themselves at […]
By Stephen Weir Every Saturday afternoon for the past 14-years Alain Arthur has been warmly welcomed into hundreds of thousands of homes across Canada. He never gets old, never gets fat (wonder where that hair went anyway?) and he always has positive, fun stories to tell us about Caribbean Canadian culture. Not yet seen Caribbean […]
Immigration matters Sukhram Ramkissoon In my last article I explained in some detail what is misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and how this can negatively affect an applicant for permanent residence in Canada. This week I will discuss a recent case in which a landed immigrant directly or indirectly misrepresented […]
Kenneth Jeffers, the lone Black member of the Toronto Police Service Board and longtime community proactivist, says the recently established Expose Toronto Committee (ETC) will create change in a society plagued by anti-Black racism. ” We have to have an organization that really creates change,” Jeffers said on Grapevine, the call-in radio program on Toronto […]
The Toronto District School Board has hopefully learned two embarrassingly valuable lessons. Lesson number one: think carefully, very carefully, before you act. Lesson number two: young minds and the emotions of young persons, are extremely sensitive and vulnerable. It is ironical that the presence of police officers in schools in areas branded as “priority” areas […]
Former president of the of the Ontario Black History Society, Rosemary Sadlier, has joined the campaign to get the Federal Government to declare August 1 as Emancipation Day across the country. The petition, which is expected to be completed on February 15 to be presented to the House of Commons in Ottawa, will use in […]
Anthony Joseph, Publisher-Editor of The Caribbean Camera has stressed the need for entrepreneurs in Caribbean Community to increase their presence among the ranks of strong Canadian companies. Joseph also spoke of the need for the community to participate in and support events such as Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) with same enthusiasm as they do at […]
Trinidadian author, David Chariandy, captured the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award Tuesday at a function at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Canada. Chariandy also collected the C$50,000 purse for winning. The prize was presented for his book Brother, which detailed the battle of two brothers, of Trinidadian descent, Michael and Francis, against prejudices and […]
Hundreds of past students of Cornwall College in Jamaica – or Cornwallians, as they are called – came from far and wide to attend the 40th anniversary gala of the Cornwall College Alumni Association (CCAA) of Toronto two Saturdays ago. The gala held under the patronage of Mary Anne Chambers, a former Ontario government minister […]
Immigration Matters By: Sukhram Ramkisson In 2005, June who lived in Canada, met Alex (not their real names) at a festival in the Caribbean. They exchanged phone numbers and after June returned to Canada, they kept in touch with each other. The following year, Alex came to Canada on a student visa for nine months […]