Two outstanding lawyers from the Caribbean community were among eleven honourees at the annual Law Society Awards ceremony held last week at Osgoode Hall in Toronto. Guyana-born Patrick Case received the Law Society medal and Jamaica-born Thora Espinet was presented with the Lincoln Alexander Award. Case who was called to the Bar in 1988, has […]
Kenneth Jeffers, the lone black member of the Toronto Police Services Board, has called for the suspension of the School Resource Officer program after deputations by several persons who spoke at Tuesday’s board meeting of the negative impact of police presence in schools. Through the program, police officers are now stationed in 75 schools across […]
Toronto City Councillor Michael Thompson was among several passengers on an Air Canada plane from Jamaica who helped restrain an unruly passenger who allegedly tried to open a cabin door mid-flight. The Air Canada Rouge flight 1805 from Jamaica to Toronto was forced to land in Orlando on Monday night after a passenger became aggressive […]
The Women’s Committee of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) of Toronto is calling for “appropriate services. supports and programs ” to bring relief to persons affected by gender-based violence in Jamaica. In a news release last Thursday, members of the committee said they were ” deeply concerned” by the “extent of violence perpetrated towards women […]
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Since 1974, police oversight in Ontario has been the subject of more than a dozen reviews, generating hundreds of recommendations for reform. However, finding the right balance between effective policing and public accountability has proven elusive. Do you believe that Justice Michael Tulloch’s report, just released, will lead to greater transparency of […]
A Guyanese man was arrested on Saturday evening by police in the Regional Municipality of Durham, east of Toronto, and charged with the murder of his pregnant wife. Nicholas Tyler Baig, 25. of Pickering who was picked up by police in Markham, Ontario,was charged with second degree murder in the death of 27-year old Arianna […]
“Racial profiling has a serious impact on the credibility and effectiveness of our police services. It has led to distrust and injustice. It must stop,” wrote Justice Harriet Sachs of the Ontario Divisional court last week. Justice Sachs was writing on behalf of a panel of judges who found that Mutaz Elmardy, a Sudanese man […]
After seven months of public consultations and private meetings, Ontario Justice Michael Tulloch last week released his report on police oversight in the province. The Independent Police Oversight Review, as the report is titled, calls for greater transparency of the province’s three police watchdogs – the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the […]
Jamaica’s National Land Agency (NLA) launched its new online anti-property fraud service, Property Watch, at the recent Jamaica National Group Expo held at the Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, Ontario. The event brought together companies in the JN (Jamaica National ) Group, government agencies and real estate developers and construction companies to provide a one-stop […]
WASHINGTON – The United States has named Shane Dominic Crawford, a Trinidad and Tobago national, among a group of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs)”. The Department of State, in a statement posted on its website, noted that Crawford and other foreigners identified as El Shafee Elsheikh, Anjem Choudary, Sami Bouras and Mark John Taylor are […]
