In a radio interview, Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report, reacted to recent attacks in Paris. The French – this goes for the British and for the Americans too – they’re like pyromaniacs who’ve set a fire that they can’t control. It’s the fire of Islamic fundamentalist jihad carefully stoked for nearly four […]
Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School has hit a rough patch with enrolment but experts and officials caution that the concept is “an incubator of ideas” and participation will “ebb and flow”. While some parents are dissatisfied, students generally praise the school for its teaching which they say gives them a sense of African-Canadian identity. Enrolment stands […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The state is moving to deem a Trinidadian convicted in the U.S. a terrorist and obtain a freezing order of his assets and any transaction done on his behalf. The unprecedented action against convicted JFK bomb plotter Kareem Ibrahim, which is being pursued under the Anti-Terrorism Act, follows the collaborative […]
According to a recent Federal Court ruling, Mr. Warssama, a Somalian now age 51, came to Canada in 1989 and his refugee claim was denied. However, he later got a ministerial permit which allowed him to apply to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Due to his failure to keep his address current […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former national security minister Gary Griffith has called on his successor Edmund Dillon to reject moves to allow the return of Trinidad and Tobago nationals, now fighting with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Griffith spoke after Islamic Front founder Umar Abdullah said he would be lobbying Dillon […]
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr has failed in his efforts to get compensation from government for what he said was malicious prosecution for a 1998 murder. Bakr had previously lost a lawsuit which he filed against the state after he was charged in 2010 and then freed because […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Ken Boothe is singing a song familiar to many of his contemporaries: that his new songs are being overlooked by disc jockeys in Jamaica. The singer’s latest album, Journey, was recorded and produced at his Kingston home studio. It features the title track and New World Order. “Jamaicans need to get more […]
Three Black singers, two of Caribbean heritage and the other a Scarborough native of Ethiopian ancestry, were among this year’s American Music Awards winners last Sunday at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Barbados native Robyn Rihanna Fenty received the award for Favourite Female Artist – Soul / R&B. She tweeted “Congrats & thank you […]
The Caribbean community joined members of other nations at Yonge-Dundas Square last Saturday to welcome Canada’s leadership on the Syrian refugee crisis with a collective “We Welcome Refugees!” One event organizer, Fahad Al, concurred with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that “We have a responsibility to significantly expand our refugee targets and give more victims of […]
As Trinidad and Tobago’s Ken Jeffers took his seat on the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB), many such boards are seeking explicit power to enforce new carding rules – clarity as to what the boards can do. Jeffers, appointed to the board by the provincial government for a two-year term, told The Camera he appreciates […]
