Following the release of new data relating to use of force by Hamilton police, anti-racism groups are calling for immediate action to address the finding that Black people are grossly over-represented in the data. The data shows that force was used against Blacks people 17 percent of the time even though they represent 5 […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Recently a Bangladeshi family was successful in having the Federal Court of Canada overturn their negative humanitarian and compassionate decision rendered by a senior immigration officer and ordered that the matter be re-determined by another officer.The facts of the case concern — a mother, her daughter and son, all Bangladeshi citizens. I will […]
First Secretary at the Antigua and Barbuda Mission to the United Nations, Asha Challenger, was elected to serve as Vice President of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Plastic Pollution. Challenger was elected to the role unanimously during the second session of the INC, which concluded in Paris France last Friday, a statement from the […]
It requires an event of serious significance to grab the attention of the international mainstream media. Even with wars, pestilence, massive displacement of people, refugees everywhere, media found one voice last Sunday 21st May to alert the world to a tragedy that unfolded in Guyana. Nineteen children (now 20) died in a fire at Mahdia, […]
The Canadian Youth Association and the Canadian Multicultural Media Confederation collaborated to host an awards ceremony honoring the achievements of several media houses. Representing the Black and Caribbean communities was the Caribbean Camera. The paper picked up two distinguished awards presented during the event: one recognizing Daniel Royer for his exceptional work as a photographer […]
A man involved in a car accident last Monday in Puerto Rico’s capital fled the scene in an ambulance that had arrived to help him, police said. The incident occurred when the unidentified man hit another car on one of Puerto Rico’s busiest highways in a minor fender-bender. An ambulance was called out of precaution, […]
“This election is a choice between crime and chaos versus law and order…I’ve never seen things this bad.” That was Mark Saunders, former Toronto police chief (2015-2020), now the city’s mayoral candidate in the upcoming June 26th by-election. There is a large constituency of Torontonians and an even larger number of residents of comparable […]
According to a Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) report Black and Middle Eastern people were more than twice as likely to be searched in the region while in custody compared to the regions population. A WRPS departmental manager Amanda Williams says that they are now trying to find the reason why this is so. The […]
EIGHTEEN girls and one boy were killed in a fire at a secondary school dormitory in Guyana, shortly before midnight on Sunday. The girls were students of the Mahdia Secondary School who lived on the compound in a dormitory. The boy, Adonijah Jerome who was five year old and the youngest of the victims, lived […]
Former Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders was a no-show By Lincoln DePradine Toronto needs to be taken “on a different track’’, because “everything is not going well’’ in the city, according to mayoral candidate Mitzie Hunter. “We have to do things differently so that we get different results – the results that we deserve,’’ Hunter […]
