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WASHINGTON, DC, CMC – Jamaican attorney Margarette May Maculay has been elected as a Commissioner of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for a four-year term. Macaulay serves as Mediator in the Supreme Court of Jamaica and an ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica says effective Monday, all systems are in place to facilitate number portability by individuals and businesses. Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell in this regard, both fixed-line and mobile telephone customers in Jamaica ...

Photo above is of Guyana President, David Granger (left) and Ambassador Liu Huanxing, Special Envoy, Caribbean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, taking a photo opportunity before the meeting at the Ministry of the Presidency. Photo credit: GINA. GEORGETOWN, Guyana, ...

TORONTO, Ontario – Last week Monday, June 15, Ontario’s Divisional Court released its decision in the racial profiling case of Aiken v. the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB). In this case, the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) successfully argued before ...

Photo above is of members of the Mandela Legacy Committee taking a break. Photo by Brandon Hay. By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Brilliant sunshine enlivened the Spirit of Mandela Freedom Walk, led by students from Nelson ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) has kicked off its strategy and planning sessions of its Black Votes Matter campaign in the lead up to the federal general election in ...

By Justice Romain Pitt PRIDE Guest Writer Is the government of Ontario contemplating an amendment or amendments to the Police Act to confer more power on the police? Why all of a sudden some important people are trying to regularize ...

By Ajamu Nangwaya PRIDE Guest Writer The news of Canadian Senator Don Meredith’s expulsion from the parliamentary caucus of the ruling Conservative Party of Canada, based on an allegation of sexual relations with a 16-year-old girl was greeted with shame, ...

By Rupert Johnson Wednesday, June 17, 2015 was indeed a Day of Infamy in South Carolina, for on that fateful day nine innocent Black worshippers in the Emanuel A.M.E church were brutally gunned down by a white supremacist. There is ...

By Sandy Daley Martin Luther King must have had the community of Charleston on his mind when he said, “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of ...