NEW YORK – United States President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly taken the first step toward confirming one of the worst fears of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants who have taken advantage of a programme that grants them temporary stay in the US. According to New York’s Vice News, a US Department of Homeland Security memo […]
By David Jessop On December 13 last, the US Congress sent to President Obama The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 for signature into law. This extraordinarily important development comes just as a new US Administration is about to take office. Uniquely it offers the Caribbean, unlike any other part of the world, a […]
By Carlton Joseph The New Year is here and many of us resolve to improve our organizations, our community and ourselves. This is normal behavior for all thinking people and organizations. This year I would like us to step outside of our personal resolutions and focus our energies on evaluating an organization that was established […]
Toronto Mayor John Tory has announced a plan to implement road tolls on two major highways in the city -the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway. Should the road tolls be implemented? Ebony Narpatty Journalist People have to understand that public policy is a balancing act. If you want development in your society, you’re […]
Canada will give $54 million to Haiti over the next five years, including more than $2 million in immediate aid, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said. The funding announcement came on the final day of Bibeau’s three-day trip to Haiti, where she is seeing first-hand how Canadian aid money is being used in areas decimated last month by hurricane Matthew. Most […]
By Gerald V. Paul The names of police officers who are investigated by the SIU should be made public, even when the SIU decides not to charge them, the Independent Police Oversight Review was told at a public meeting last Thursday evening, at Metro Hall in Toronto. The recommendation was made to Justice Michael Tulloch […]
By David Jessop Recently, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Visa and many more premium providers of global web services, temporarily went offline. This was because they had indirectly suffered the effects of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a largely unknown intermediary that enables web users to access the addresses of major […]
In my last two columns, I replied to questions from readers about immigration issues. This week I will address a problem dealing with sponsorship which came to my attention in a letter from another reader. Similar problem are reported to be not uncommon in the Caribbean community. Question: Dear Mr. Ram: I […]
By Gerald V. Paul No family member was there to shed a tear at Claudia’s funeral service in Toronto last week. Not even her daughter, Diana, who was thousands of miles away in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia as her mom ‘s body was lying in a coffin at the chapel of a Toronto […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A delegation from the Central Bank of Barbados (CBB) has ended a visit to Canada discussing the “encouraging prospects” for Canadian banks operating in Barbados. A CBB statement said that the delegation headed by Governor Dr. Delisle Worrell ‘in discussions with bankers and officials…expressed confidence in the future of our international business […]
