George Brown College partners with UWI in developing Global Tourism Centre

George Brown College partners with UWI in developing Global Tourism Centre

George Brown College in Toronto has become the first Canadian partner of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC), based at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. In making this announcement last Friday at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Centre and George Brown College, Dr. Gervan Fearon, […]

Barbados PM Mia Mottley receives WHO Global Health Leadership Award

Barbados PM Mia Mottley receives WHO Global Health Leadership Award

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus surprised Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley with an award for leadership, and she said it was thanks to her team. The Director-General told Mottley that the WHO and the world, “we have seen your leadership” and he stressed that her voice is very impactful. “Your voice is […]

The slap heard around the world

The slap heard around the world

  By Styephen Weir You Tube got it right. Only hours after Sunday night’s Oscars Award Ceremony ended the short message and video issued about Will Smith and Chris Rock’s Brouhaha was tagged as The Slap Heard Around World and it had done just that. Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars […]

Jamaal Magloire’s Toronto Revellers band launch and costume showcase

Jamaal Magloire’s Toronto Revellers band launch and costume showcase

  Toronto Revellers Band Leader and Raptors Assistant Coach, Jamaal Magloire will be hosting its 2022 costume reveal fashion show at 9:00 p.m. EST on Saturday, April 2, 2022 at Edwards Gardens. “After more than two years of being isolated, locked down and at home due to the pandemic, it’s time to explore the world […]

John “Jayson” Perez: An icon has left us

John “Jayson” Perez: An icon has left us

  By Brenda Alexander John “Jayson” Perez, calypsonian extraordinaire, passed away on March 29, 2022, after suffering a heart attack on March 22.  Jayson was best known for his song “Drunken Sailor” and for his performance to that calypso, in which he often invited the audience to join him and to do their best drunken […]

Revenge of the Black Best Friend by Amanda Parris makes its debut

Revenge of the Black Best Friend by Amanda Parris makes its debut

  REVENGE OF THE BLACK BEST FRIEND, a brand new CBC Gem original comedy series from award-winning playwright, host, producer, and CBC personality Amanda Parris, puts a spotlight – and surreal twist – on the familiar tropes, stereotypes and typecasting that’s been forced on Black actors. The entire six-part series debuts on the free CBC […]

Toronto supports Jamaica protests against British royals

Toronto supports Jamaica protests against British royals

Toronto residents with ties to the Caribbean say they sympathize with protests against the British monarchy in Jamaica as a controversial royal tour continues there this week. Prince William and Kate Middleton were in Jamaica for two days as part of a Central American and Caribbean tour. Protesters gathered before their arrival. One hundred individuals […]

Trinidad to lift most COVID-19 restrictions

Trinidad to lift most COVID-19 restrictions

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last Saturday announced the removal of most of the restrictions that were implemented due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Speaking during a news conference, Rowley said the restrictions to be lifted include the removal of the Safe Zone system as of April 4 and a change in the requirement of […]

Francia Marquez: Colombia’s first Black vice presidential candidate

Francia Marquez: Colombia’s first Black vice presidential candidate

Francia Márquez Mina, a Black woman activist from the predominantly Black and forgotten region of the Pacific coast, is Colombia’s First Black Vice Presidential Candidate. “I did not get this far to occupy a political position. I am worried that this country won’t change, that peace won’t get to the territories, that boys and girls, […]