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KINGSTON, Jamaica Thursday, August 12, 2021 — With the increased supply of coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in the island, Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, is, again, appealing for more Jamaicans to get inoculated. “We are not quite at 10 percent of the ...

By Ingrid Waldron and Juliet Daniel Guest Contributors In the 1940s, the town of Shelburne, N.S., became home to a new garbage dump. Residential, industrial and medical waste from throughout eastern Shelburne County was burned at the dump over the decades, ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, pleaded with unvaccinated Barbadians “to do what is necessary”, to protect themselves and their loved ones. Mottley made the comments, yesterday, at the Grantley Adams International Airport, after Barbados received 30,000 doses ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A negative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test is still the requirement to enter Guyana, warned Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, during yesterday’s COVID-19 update. Dr. Anthony explained, that although the results of another testing technique, ...

TIMEHRI, Guyana — Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill, says the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has made significant progress with the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) modernisation project. Minister Edghill made this revelation, yesterday, following his meeting with CHEC, ...

By Stephen Weir Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — The annual Scotiabank Photography Award offers the largest cash prize in Canada for photographers — and this year, Deanna Bowen took top honours. As winner of the Award, Bowen receives a $50,000 ...

By Stephen Weir Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A provincial private members Bill — to proclaim Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day — received rare Royal Assent, earlier this month, just in time to honour this year’s ...

TORONTO, Ontario — The Board of Directors of the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) has hired Moya Teklu as the legal clinic’s new Executive Director and General Counsel. Teklu has a long history of working to eradicate anti-Black racism in ...

TORONTO, Ontario — With the one-month countdown to the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games now officially underway, 28-year-old, 5′-10″ Brandie Wilkerson — the first Black woman on the Canadian beach volleyball team that is set to shine at ...

YORK REGION, Ontario — Educator, Darcie Sutherland, was appointed, two weeks ago, as Principal of Inclusive School and Community Services, with responsibility for coordinating the implementation of the York Region District School Board’s (YRDSB) Dismantling Anti-Black Racism Strategy (DABRS). A ...