Canadians will host more than 60 events for Global Entrepreneurship Week November 13-19. During the Week, Toronto will join cities around the world, including those in the Caribbean, in celebrating entrepreneurs, the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation. How will you be celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week? Valerie MacLeod Global Partner, Haines Centre for Strategic Management. Calgary […]
Toronto will join cities in over 160 countries around the world, including several in the Caribbean, in observing Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), November 13-19. During GEW, entrepreneurs, the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation will be celebrated, organizers say. At press time, there were more than 130 events listed on the GEW Canada website. These […]
The Ontario government has announced the launch of a program to help Black youth with post-secondary education prepare for careers in engineering, insurance and finance. The Industry-led Career Initiative, as the program is called, is part of the Ontario Black Youth Action Plan, and aims to reduce employment and income disparities among young professionals, Michael […]
Migrant farm workers from Dominica which was ravaged by Hurricane Maria last month, are appealing to the Canadian government to allow them to remain and continue to work in Canada to help support their families back home. The category five hurricane was reported to have left more than 20 people dead in Dominica and severely […]
WASHINGTON – Despite the recent impact of natural disasters, the World Bank says the Latin American and Caribbean region remains on course to record modest economic growth for the first time in six years. The bank’s Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean Carlos A. Végh issued the projection yesterday in the wake of […]
By David Jessop A week or so ago, Caricom Secretary General Irwin LaRocque made clear that if the Caribbean is ever to be able to respond sustainably to the devastation caused by climate change, the eligibility criteria for development assistance must change. Speaking about this in Georgetown on the occasion of the accreditation of a […]
Hundreds of past students of Cornwall College in Jamaica – or Cornwallians, as they are called – came from far and wide to attend the 40th anniversary gala of the Cornwall College Alumni Association (CCAA) of Toronto two Saturdays ago. The gala held under the patronage of Mary Anne Chambers, a former Ontario government minister […]
GEORGE’S, Grenada – The Grenada government has welcomed a move by a local entrepreneur to invest an estimated EC$20 million (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) in a hotel utilising the country’s Citizenship by Investment Program(CBI), “Projects like that benefits so many,” Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said at the sod turning ceremony. Grenada, like several other […]
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands — More than 100 criminals who broke out of Her Majesty’s Prison, Balsam Ghut in the British Virgin Islands last week have been captured. Governor Augustus Jaspert said the escapees were rounded up during an operation last week. “On Thursday 14 September, an operation run by the British Virgin Islands and […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana— The Guyana government says it will put in place legislation to avoid people fleeing harsh economic and political conditions in their homeland being deported for illegal entry into the country. Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge told the Guyana-based Demerara Waves Online News that at the policy level, the government may want to see […]
