Canadian team for T&T training camp

Canadian team for T&T training camp

  Canadian team, Club Aquatique Montreal (CAMO), has chosen Trinidad and Tobago as its winter training base. A team of 13—inclusive of two coaches—is  scheduled to take part in  a “packed training  program ” in Central Trinidad. The Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SporTT) is partnering with the Tourism Development Company (TDC) to facilitate […]

First black-owned barber shop in Scarborough closing

First black-owned barber shop in Scarborough closing

Scarborough’s first black-owned  barber shop will close its  doors for the last time  on Saturday December 31. ” It’s   going to be a very sad day  for me and for so many of my loyal clients,”  sighed Worrell Molligan, in announcing the closing of Conrad’s Barber shop at 3601 Lawrence Avenue East. The Trinidad-born barber […]

More Caribbean migrant farm workers hired in Ontario this year

More Caribbean migrant farm workers hired  in Ontario this year

More  than 8,000  migrant workers from the Caribbean were hired  on Ontario farms  this year through the Canada- Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers program – an increase  of more than 600 over  2015. An  official of the Mississauga-based Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Service s (FARMS) which co-ordinates the   processing of requests from farmers for foreign seasonal […]

A BIG CHECK FOR HAITI

A BIG CHECK FOR HAITI

Dr. Eric Pierre, Honorary  Consul General for Haiti in Toronto, (sixth from left) receives a ” big check” for  $3,740 on behalf of  Pierspective Entraide Huminataire, a Haitian-led charitable organization in Toronto, at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto. (From left) Alton Brooks – Director of Communications, Jamaican  Canadian Association (JCA), JCA Board; Dr. Sylvanus […]

Jamaica’s tourism minister receives World Travel award

Jamaica’s tourism minister receives World   Travel award

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has been awarded the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel, at the 23rd Annual World Travel Awards (WTA) Grand Final held in the Maldives, Southern Asia on Friday. Jamaica and local tourism partners also copped several prestigious awards at the event. “I am very […]

Tribute to Fidel

Letter to the editor Dear Editor: Many of your readers would know of the achievements of the Cuban revolution but many others continue to criticise Comandante Fidel for what they see as oppression by the Castro regime. Please allow me at this time to remind Fidel’s detractors of what he accomplished while hitting the exploiters, […]