Major travel landmark in Puerto Rico destroyed by earthquakes

Major travel landmark in Puerto Rico destroyed by earthquakes

Punta Ventana destroyed by earthquakes A popular tourist landmark in Puerto Rico, Punta Ventana, was destroyed in the Puerto Rico earthquakes Monday.  Additionally, the Puerto Rico Tourism Company confirmed in a statement two other sites, Cueva Ventana and Ruinas del Faro, also suffered irreparable damage. A 5.8-magnitude quake hit the Caribbean island before dawn last […]

Jamaica-born professor confirmed as US District Court Judge

Jamaica-born professor confirmed as US District Court Judge

Last Thursday, the US chamber voted 68-21 to confirm Jamaican-born Richard E. Myers, a former journalist turned attorney and law professor, to the US District Court vacancy in eastern North Carolina in a bipartisan vote. This is the end of the nation’s longest federal court vacancy after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and volatile politics […]

Miley Cyrus pays $300 Million to Jamaican songwriter

Miley Cyrus pays $300 Million to Jamaican songwriter

Miley Cyrus has reached a settlement in the $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit that accused the singer of stealing her 2013 hit “We Can’t Stop.” Cyrus’ lawyers previously revealed a settlement agreement had been made in a December 12th letter that would be filed “pending payment of the settlement proceeds.” Terms of the settlement were […]

Redemption Road radio series triples listenership for season 2

Redemption Road radio series triples listenership for season 2

By Nicole George Almost 200 000 listeners tuned in worldwide over an eight-week period week (October-November 2019), to hear season two of the popular Dominican radio drama, Redemption Road. The gospel themed radio series is produced by LIFE101radio.net, a subsidiary of Dominican owned media house TDN radio.net. Season one of Redemption Road debuted in October […]

Using Black Lego to connect Africa’s distant past to a distant future

Using Black Lego to connect Africa’s distant past to a distant future

By Stephen Weir Two years ago Lego artist Ekow Nimako built a statue of a girl on top of a galloping black unicorn.  The 8ft by 6ft sculpture made with over 80,000 black Lego bricks became the symbol of Scarborough at Toronto’s annual all night Nuit Blanc festival. Nimako collaborated with filmmaker Director X, to […]

Prof Dexter Voisin warns against racialized poverty

Prof Dexter Voisin warns against racialized poverty

By Lincoln DePradine A University of Toronto (U of T) professor, who recently moved here from the United States, is warning Canadians about the dangers of “racialized poverty’’, saying it leads to the kind of “structural’’ and “neighbourhood violence’’ that is prevalent in American cities like Chicago. “In Canada, we are moving towards racialized poverty, […]

Trinidad rejected IMF proposals

Trinidad rejected IMF proposals

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Finance Minister Colm Imbert said last Monday that the Trinidad and Tobago government was being urged to adopt a structural adjustment programme more than two decades after the oil-rich twin island republic ended a similar programme with the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF). “Indeed, 25 years after we got ourselves […]

US-British diplomatic clash in store over Caribbean killing?

US-British diplomatic clash in store over Caribbean killing?

Officials in Anguilla are preparing a warrant for the arrest of a Connecticut man who refused to return to the Caribbean island to face charges in the death of a hotel resort worker, the attorney general for the British territory said last week. Attorneys for Scott Hapgood, of Darien, said he skipped the pretrial hearing […]