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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Friday, May 20, 2022) — Jamaica is in dialogue with several countries to acquire coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for children aged five to 11 years. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, made the disclosure during the Ministry’s COVID Conversations ...

By Troy Barker Guest Contributor ATLANTIC SHORES, Barbados (Friday, May 20, 2022) — Barbados’ newest centenarian, Sylvia Elretta Springer, who said it is “wonderful” to be alive, celebrated her milestone-birthday on Sunday, May 8, with the President of Barbados, Dame ...

Dear Editor: The United Nations define gender-based violence as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women and other persons, including threats of acts of ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist This narrative must change: 84 percent of executive directors and producers in the cannabis industry are White, and only 1 percent is Black. In March 2012, the federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper enacted Bill C-10 ...

By Nadine Spencer Guest Contributor The horrific, racially-driven shooting in Buffalo has been dominating the news cycle over the past few days, and rightly so, as this was a shocking, heart-breaking, hate crime that demonstrates the fact that anti-Black racism ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Wednesday, May 19, 2022) — Professor Verene A. Shepherd, Director of the Centre for Reparation Research (CRR) at The University of the West Indies, was appointed to the position of Chair of the United Nations’ Committee on the ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday May 18, 2022) — American rapper, singer and songwriter, Chuck D, Founder and Leader of the legendary group, Public Enemy, will receive Canadian Music Week’s (CMW) Social Justice Honours Award, next month. Co-founder of the super-group, Prophets ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Tuesday May 17, 2022 — Statistics released, yesterday, by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) show national home sales declined by 12.6 percent, last month. The decrease placed monthly house sales activity at the lowest level since the ...

By Neil Armstrong Guest Contributor “I am running for office because of the change I want to see. There are a tremendous number of issues that are currently taking place within different communities of Brampton and families are forced to ...

By Neil Armstrong Guest Contributor As someone, who always wants to make the community better, Andria Barrett, the Ontario New Democratic Party candidate for Brampton South, believes she can make a change in the city she loves. A big supporter ...