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By Cheryl Thompson Guest Contributor Published nearly 170 years ago, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a profound impact on American slavery. But Uncle Tom is not a relic from the 19th century: this complex figure still has ...

By Funké Aladejebi Guest Contributor Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School first opened in 2009 after years of advocacy and then months of heated public debates and criticism about the meaning and significance of the school. For some, the school represented a push ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Friday, February 5, 2021) — The Guyana government’s ability to undertake its development agenda, got a boost, last evening, with the confirmation of the increase of the Public Loans Act and the External Loans Act. The debt ceilings ...

CHRIST CHURCH, Barbados (Friday, February 5, 2021) — The management of the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) Inc. is reminding inbound and outbound passengers that all retail shops and food establishments at the airport are closed, during the period of ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Friday, February 5, 2021) — Governor General, Dame Sandra Mason, has gone into quarantine, after being exposed to COVID-19. Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, made the announcement during a COVID-19 update and press conference, last evening. “It is ...

By Chef Selwyn Richards Culinary Specialist Seasons seem to have their calling for specialty foods.  In the summer time, we are blessed with fresh fruits and the tantalizing smell of someone barbecuing. In the winter, depending on your geography, you ...

By Chef Selwyn Richards Culinary Specialist Surprise your cheese lovers with this easy meat loaf. This recipe makes two loaves, so one can be frozen for another time, if you have a small family. Ingredients: 2-1/2 pounds of ground chuck ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columist Canadians have spent an untold amount of time and hours, obsessing over Donald Trump, his shenanigans, political antics and Democratic frantics, when most of what matters and affects our daily lives occurs not only in ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Although the majority of Canadians are under the belief that the country is exemplary when it comes to inclusion, the cold, hard truth is that Canadians still have a long way to go, towards achieving ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist I always go back to Jamaica……so, as I wind my way through the challenges that the coronavirus presents, I think of my high school days and the part that English literature played in my education. ...