The mothers are members of the Zero Gun Violence Movement which has held several demonstrations and led a delegation to Ottawa calling on the federal government for tougher gun laws. More than a hundred people took part in the march in Toronto on August 19 last which began at City Hall and ended at Queen’s […]
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has announced that it will withdraw funding of the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) effective September 30. Every dollar of funding currently provided to ACLC will be redirected to a new organization to provide dedicated services to the Black community, said a news release from the LAO dated August 16 last. […]
So when last did you hear about “financial mismanagement”? Remember Caribana? Was the festival not removed from the cash-starved community-based organization which had been running it, because of “financial mismanagement” and placed in the hands of a small clique who found favour with the powers that be? Is it not the same clique which has […]
Will the African Canadian Legal Clinic in Toronto be closed after serving the community for more than 20 years? This question keep popping up with the growing concerns in the Black and Caribbean community over the future of the clinic. Fuelling these concerns are local media reports that the clinic is at risk of losing […]
LONDON – Police will use facial recognition software to scan the faces of tens of thousands of revellers at this year’s Notting Hill carnival even though civil liberties groups believe such an action would be discriminatory, according to The Guardian newspaper. The Metropolitan Police has described the planned deployment as a pilot project intended to […]
CORAL CREEK, Florida – The Speaker of the House in the Cayman Islands has been charged after allegedly grabbing the buttocks of a female casino employee in Florida. McKeeva Bush, a former premier, filed a written “not guilty” plea last week to a misdemeanor count of battery. “The defendant hereby enters a plea of not […]
Out of this, an executive report was developed that outlined a number of goals to be achieved. These included the roll-out of an Intelligence Fusion Centre; the creation of a Safer Cities programme; and working with the Ministry of Justice to reduce the backlog of court cases. Dr. Francis said the group intends to offer […]
When all is said and done, those of us who live in the Caribbean, and many of us who don’t live there, have yet to face up to an inescapable truth. Our failure to face this truth is the root cause of the continued stagnation in the social and economic growth of the Caribbean region […]
The killing two years ago of Andrew Loku, a 45-year old Black man, by Toronto Police Constable Andrew Doyle was a homicide. That was the verdict of the jury at a coroner’s inquest which ended on Friday after four weeks of hearings at which 28 persons testified, including Constable Doyle. The inquest heard that on […]
A Trinidad-born woman and her husband were found dead last Thursday in New Mexico. The bodies of Ursula Tammy Kokotkiewicz, 32, who lived in Brampton and had moved to the United States, and husband, Jacob, 31, who served in the US army, were found with gunshot wounds to the head. Their bodies were found in […]
