By Gerald V. Paul QUEEN’S Park – Newly minted Education Minister Mitzie Hunter is “thrilled” to be entrusted with the province’s $22- billion education system, she said in an interview with The Camera yesterday. Jamaica-born Hunter – Ontario’s first Black minister of education – pledged to continue to build on the existing foundation of goals: […]
June 11 will be a night of sheer Pan Fantasy. The steelband will celebrate 30 glorious years at Tropicana Community Banquet Hall that night with spectacular music and good times. Wendy Jones, leader of Pan Fantasy, the reigning Pan Alive Steel pan Champions, told The Camera yesterday, “We are grateful for the ability and opportunities […]
Adaoma Patterson was elected president of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) last Sunday. Patterson, whose late father Horace Patterson came to Canada to pursue studies at the University of Manitoba in the 1960s was born in Winnipeg and, with the exception of six years which her family spent in Jamaica, was raised in that city. […]
Unless the Festival Management Committee (FMC) can run Carnival better, it’s time the community reclaimed the event, a veteran bandleader says. Michael Williams, leader of De Regulars Arts and Cultural Group for the past 35 years said FMC must stop trying to control the Toronto Mas Band Association (TMBA). “What is the mandate of the […]
As always the opinions in this article are mine and mine alone. Who am I? Just your average So n So. This week I decided to do it a little differently with a top 15. I will do this from time to time because there are many questions being asked and some can be […]
Ontario minister Mitzie Hunter and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes will headline the second annual Canada International Black Women Event (CIBWE) June 10 and 11 at Novotel Hotel, Mississauga. Rose Cathy Handy said the conference will be opened by Hunter, associate minister of finance responsible for pension reform and MPP for Scarborough-Guildwood. “Her opening remarks will lead […]
One year ago at the announcement that Mark Saunders would be Toronto’s first Black police chief, Anthony Morgan, then with the African Canadian Legal Clinic, gently advised Saunders not to accept “collateral damage” in serving and protecting the community. The charismatic new chief – an excellent listener – said he would take it under advisement […]
A spokesman for the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) said, “In reviewing the testimony from the Jermaine Carby inquest a number of troubling revelations have come up.” BADC Director Kingsley P. Gilliam said the committee is demanding that the Attorney General of Ontario bring charges against Const. Justin Chittenden, one of the officers involved. Gilliam […]
Toronto including the Caribbean Diaspora are praying for the survival of a baby boy taken at just 20 weeks by C-section as his mother lay dying of a gunshot would inflicted by a gunman branded by a Toronto Police superintendent as disgraceful and a coward. The baby is in stable condition, hospital officials say, but […]
George B. (Knia) Singh, a prominent son of Caribbean heritage, has joined the throng seeking the Liberal nomination for the provincial riding of Scarborough-Rouge River. Singh joins six others seeking the nod for the June 5 byelection, caused by the resignation of Bas Balkissoon. Born in Toronto to parents of Guyanese and Bremudian heritage, Singh […]
