Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett arrived in Toronto on Monday for discussions this week with industry stakeholders on strategies to boost visitor arrivals from Canada. Accompanying the minister is a three-member delegation from the Jamaica Tourist Board -John Lynch, chairman, Paul Pennicook, director of tourism and Marcia McLaughlin, deputy director of tourism, marketing. Bartlett […]
Trinidad and Tobago observed the 54th anniversary of its Independence on Wednesday August 31. In this article, Trevor Sudama, a former Trinidad and Tobago Member of Parliament and Government Minister, discusses political and economic developments in the two-island state. During the 54 years of its independence from British rule, Trinidad and Tobago has had a […]
By Gerald V. Paul Marcia Annisette, an associate professor of accounting at York University, called on fellow nationals of Trinidad and Tobago in Toronto to make a greater contribution to the development of the two-island nation. ” W e are not giving back enough. We are punching way below our weight,” she said in an […]
By Michael Lashley I had the distinct pleasure of being among the enthusiastic aficionados invited to attend the Canadian premiere of a Cuban documentary, hosted in Toronto recently by A Different Booklist at the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI). The documentary was entitled Reembarque/Reshipment and it tells the gripping story of the Haitian presence in […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Guyana will, on humanitarian grounds, assist Venezuelans and persons of other nationalities should they find themselves fleeing from their countries as a result of economic turmoil or political persecution. However, President David Granger said, assistance will not be done haphazardly. He said: “We are not going to simply open our borders to people […]
By Jasminee Sahoye The Mayor of Toronto’s 2016 Youth Cricket team returned home last week from a one-week trip to Trinidad and Tobago after an ” eye-opening experience” in the two-island state where they played against local teams and met several national cricketers. The Toronto team are members of the ” Cricket Across The Pond […]
Jamaican farm workers who lost all their belongings in a fire which gutted their living quarters in Brant Country, Ontario on July 28 last, have high praise for donors who came to their assistance. After the fire,33 workers at Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation in Mt. Pleasant, were left with just the clothes […]
By Winston H. E. Suite Who is the man Makendal Daaga for whom there has been a call for a state funeral on his recent demise? Who is this man that has caused a sitting Prime Minister to send condolences to his family while the PM was outside of the country? Who is this man […]
By Gerald V. Paul Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson , currently on a North American tour, met on Monday with farm workers in Mt. Pleasant, Ontario whose living quarters were gutted in a fire on July 28 last. Thirty-three workers from Jamaica assigned to Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation, […]
