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 […]
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 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 […]
This week’s question: With the alarming rate of violent crime, including murder, in Trinidad and Tobago, do you believe it is safe to visit the country for the Christmas season? Damian Sogren Master of Ceremonies Home is home.Things have changed and crime has escalated but it’s bad all over the […]
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 […]
Come Friday, Maestrea and Friends will put on the sixth annual House Parang Lime. Venue: The Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre on Credit Union Drive in Toronto. As Parandero Tony Mastrea, the leader of the group, notes, the show comes at ” the unofficial end of the parang season in Toronto ” and it’s the last […]
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 […]
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, […]
A Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Boeing 737 and a Fly Jamaica Airways Boeing 767 were grounded after an accident at Cheddi Jagan International airport on Tuesday morning. According to news reports, the CAL plane, arriving from New York, was taxiing to its gate when it was struck the tail cone of the parked Fly Jamaica Airways […]