Long-suffering people with chronically sore ankles, knees, or elbows try everything from ice to physical therapy to surgery to bring relief to their aching body parts. But researchers delving more deeply into the problem have found that a better solution ...
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The Unaddressed In The Black Community
By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist It is not only the police who can lay claim to having a monopoly on the Code of Silence. No way! When it comes to certain topics in the Black community then there is a ...
Read More »New Principal Of Africentric Alternative School Focuses On Its Vision — And Ultimate Mission
By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 27, 2017 — Luther Brown, principal of the Africentric Alternative School (AAS) in Toronto, has been in that role since February 1, and he describes it as being a good experience. “The ...
Read More »Canada Sends First Caribbean Diaspora Delegation Of Performers To Carifesta; Seeks Community Support
By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 26, 2017 — For the first time since its inception in 1972, the Caribbean’s largest arts festival, Carifesta, has agreed to the participation of a delegation of artists from the Caribbean Diaspora. ...
Read More »Operation Black Vote Canada Holds Black Women’s Political Summit
By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 24, 2017 — In aiming to expand the talent pool of black leaders in government at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, Operation Black Vote Canada (OBVC), a non-profit and non-partisan organization, ...
Read More »Billions Pumped Into Caribbean Airlines Since 2011, Says T&T Finance Minister
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 24, 2017 (CMC) – The state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has received an estimated three billion dollars in subsidies since 2011, Finance Minister Colm Imbert has said. Responding to a question, posed by Opposition ...
Read More »CARICOM: Unity Takes A Step Forward; Then Takes An About-Turn
By Sir Ronald Sanders Guest Writer WASHINGTON, DC Jun 24, 2017 (CMC) – Three weeks ago, I and many other committed Caribbean integrationists, declared that the unity displayed by CARICOM countries at the Organization of American States (OAS) on May ...
Read More »Country Mourns Death Of Jamaica Football Federation President, Horace Burrell
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – The Jamaica government has led the tribute to the President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Captain Horace Burrell, who died, on Tuesday, in the United States. He was 67 years old. Prime ...
Read More »Bob Marley’s Grandson Freed On Gun Charges
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – More than three years after he was alleged to have pulled a firearm on a security guard, Mathew Pendergast, the grandson of reggae legend, Bob Marley, has been freed in the Gun Court. ...
Read More »Antigua Government Urges LIAT Pilots To Return To Work
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua And Barbuda, June 8, 2017 (CMC) – The government of Antigua and Barbuda has called on pilots with the regional carrier LIAT, to return to work and continue negotiations with the airline’s management. The call was made in ...
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