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By Michael Van Cooten Pride Publisher/Editor  TORONTO, Ontario – Boasting over 40 years’ experience in the business of entertaining, Oliver Samuels, irrefutably a Jamaican cultural icon, is celebrating his 65th birthday, in Toronto on Mother’s Day weekend, with a new ...

National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner Adam Silver has announced that the league has banned the franchise owner with the longest tenure, Donald Sterling for life and has fined him $2.5 million, the maximum allowable fine under NBA rules. The ban ...

By Dr. Peter Sealy Pride Guest Columnist Incarceration is destabilizing the mental health of African Canadians. The mental health intervention for incarcerated African Canadians, if any, is typically done in a way to control rather than comprehensive treatment. Antipsychotic drugs ...

By Allan Jones Pride Health Columnist In January this year, I went to a popular West Indian restaurant in Brampton, only to be told that my friend, in her 50s, who works at the restaurant, had a heart attack and ...

NC – Swimsuit season is around the corner, and for many of us, that means starting diets in order to trim down. With so many weight loss theories out there, it’s easy to get confused. Registered dietitian, Tristaca Curley, of ...

NC – There is nothing drivers dread more than the sound of rubber flapping on asphalt. Typically, the first reaction to a flat tire is disbelief, followed by annoyance and then a quick phone call to a towing company. But ...

Comedian Roseanne Barr once said, “A good man doesn’t just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is like a lump, like a doughnut. So first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom ...

NC – When most people think of stroke, they do not think of it as a disease that affects young people. Although most common in people over the age of 70, stroke can indeed strike at any age. Learn to ...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent CMC – The Central Water and Sewerage Authority (CWSA) has introduced water rationing in one section of the island, as the severe drought continues to affect St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The water utility company has warned ...

By Farangis Abdurazokzoda Washington Correspondent  WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – Even as countries around the world have started to sign on to and ratify a landmark international treaty that would for the first time regulate the international trade in conventional weapons, experts ...