Trinidad-born economist Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran last week received the Prevasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee for outstanding public service in the practice of development and diplomacy. Dookeran who served in the former Trinidad and Tobago government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as foreign minister and finance minister and is a […]
Ahmed Hussen, the first Somali-Canadian elected to the House of Commons and MP for the Toronto riding of York South-Weston, replaced John McCallum as minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship in a cabinet shakeup on Tuesday. McCallum, a former bank economist, leaves a 16-year political career as the MP for Markham-Thornhill to become Canada’s ambassador […]
Scarborough’s first black-owned barber shop will close its doors for the last time on Saturday December 31. ” It’s going to be a very sad day for me and for so many of my loyal clients,” sighed Worrell Molligan, in announcing the closing of Conrad’s Barber shop at 3601 Lawrence Avenue East. The Trinidad-born barber […]
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 […]
Dr. Adisa Azubuike No, you are not weird, or strange, or crazy. You are just like many other people who have trouble with this whole “holidays thing.” You don’t like the holidays because the holidays fill you with dread and stress. Around this time of year your disappointments, estrangements, losses, and loneliness, are exaggerated. You […]
Former Cuban President Fidel Alexandro Castro Ruz died on Friday night. He was 90. His death was announced on Cuban state TV by his brother, Raul, who succeeded him ten years ago as the country’s leader. Cause of death was not disclosed but Castro had been in failing health with an intestinal ailment for several […]
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — Jovenel Moïse, of Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale (Haitian Bald Head Party) and the chosen successor of former president Michel Martelly, won the first round of the Nov. 20 presidential election in Haiti with 595,430 (55.67 per cent) of the votes. Since Moïse won with more than 50 per cent of […]
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 […]
“Errol Barrow: Freedom Fighter,” a full-length feature film on the life of the former prime minister of Barbados who led his country to political independence in 1966, will have its world premiere at the Innis Town Hall cinema, University of Toronto, on November 12. This docudrama stars Adrian Holmes, a Canadian of Barbadian heritage, and […]
Ben Torres took his camera with him to Charley’s West Indian Food Store in Scarborough in time to catch shoppers stocking up on special items for Divali celebrations on Saturday. Here is his report about the festival of lights in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). By Ben Torres Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, is […]
