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 […]
Sprinter Andre De Grasse, who raced to three Olympic medals in Rio last summer, has been voted the winner of the Lionel Conacher Award as the Canadian Press male athlete of 2016. De Grasse of Markham, Ontario, earned 43 votes (66 per cent) in the annual survey of editors and broadcasters from across Canada.. Placing […]
Few in Toronto’s Caribbean community may be aware of the three African-American woman whose work on “Project Mercury” made it possible for the United States to catch up in the space race by launching the first American, Alan Shepard, into space and sending John Glenn into orbit around the earth. Now the inspiring story about […]
Time is running out for the staging of the big Caribana bash planned for next Summer. That’s the concern of several members of board of the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which, after several months, is still locked in negotiations with the Festival Management Committee which has been running the Toronto Caribbean carnival for the last […]
Santa Claus got a rousing welcome when he arrived at the Woodbine Banquet Hall last Saturday for the Advocate for Etobicoke Youth’s (AFEY’s) annual Children’s Christmas party And Santa did not disappoint the hundreds of boys and girls who, along with parents and guardians and special guests, eagerly awaited his presence. After a scrumptious meal […]
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 […]
This week’s question: With the alarming rate of violent crime, including murder, in Trinidad and Tobago, do you believe it is safe to visit the country for the Christmas season? Damian Sogren Master of Ceremonies Home is home.Things have changed and crime has escalated but it’s bad all over the […]
Viola Desmond, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre 70 years ago, will be the first woman other than the Queen to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote. Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Desmond will grace the […]
For 24 hours non-stop, the walls of Daniel’s Spectrum in Toronto reverberated with the sounds of rhythmic drumming from the members of the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival (MIDF ), the Toronto Brazilian Samba band, TDot Batu and other organizations and individuals. Drummers of different skill levels and experience combined their talents to produce what the […]
Jamaica-born Lawrence Wilberforce McLarty, the first black uniformed officer in the Toronto Police service, died in Oshawa on Thursday after a lengthy illness He was 87. McLarty who joined the Toronto Police service in 1960, retired in 1992 as a staff sergeant in the Public Complaints’ Bureau. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said McLarty has […]
