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By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Readers, forgive me if I fail to reflect any change in my approach now that 2020 has arrived. In fact, in the name of progress and enlightenment, I have resolved to be even more brutally ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 31, 2019 (CMC) – Police are investigating the murders of Canadian-based Guyanese, Vivekanand Narpatty, 71, and another person, after their decomposing bodies were found at the now-defunct Sun Splash Hotel in Corentyne, east of here, last Friday. ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Writer On December 18, Quebec’s Public Security Minister, Geneviève Guilbault, announced the commencement of an overhaul, aimed at modernizing and making Quebec’s police forces more answerable and accountable. At a news conference kicking off the consultation ...

OTTAWA, Ontario December 20, 2019 — Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, met with Allen Chastanet, the Prime Minister of St. Lucia and current Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on Wednesday, to discuss the longstanding partnership between Canada and St. Lucia, ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario December 17, 2019 — On a wet, relatively-warm December day, last Saturday, hundreds mourned as they witnessed the burial of one of Toronto’s unsung heroes, Ronald “Jimmy” Ashford Wisdom, at the Highland Memory ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Way back then, during my growing up years, there were many things that Black folks did not have. Nevertheless, there was one thing that we did have, which replaced and made up for those things ...

ONTARIO, Canada Friday, December 13, 2019 — Twistleton St. Rose Bertrand, who born on September 4, 1924 and fondly known as Twist, died, peacefully, at home, last Sunday, at the age of 95. A Dominican expatriate and World War II ...

OTTAWA, Ontario December 4, 2019 (CMC) – Building on a government commitment, made earlier this year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says it is now easier for foreign nationals, including Caribbean immigrants, to apply for temporary and permanent resident ...

Toronto, Ontario, November 11, 2019 – The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP), the largest service provider of its kind in Canada, is celebrating a momentous milestone, later this month, and will also honour its founders. The organization will ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist In The Mis-Education of the Negro, author Carter Woodson, acknowledged as the “father” of Black History, asserts that Blacks sometimes choose their own leaders but, unfortunately, they are too often the wrong kind. We do ...