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ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, January 6, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government said, last Friday, that a meeting with officials of the Bank of Nova Scotia will take place this month, after initially indicating that the bank ...

By Karen Robson Contributing Writer Although the impact of income inequality and gender on education outcomes is much discussed in Canadian government-level policy debates, factors of race and racism are seldom measured or addressed. However, as an education researcher comparing ...

TORONTO, Ontario December 13, 2018 — Seventy-five African-Canadian high school students of the Leadership by Design (LBD) program, the signature initiative of the Lifelong Leadership Institute (LLI), recently participated in a free, digital, literacy workshop, hosted by the Royal Bank ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario, December 5, 2018 — Richard de Lima, whose curriculum vitae boasts a 30-year career in engineering and business management, was appointed as General Manager of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, effective Monday. He will ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, December 5, 2018 (CMC) – Canada has called on the political parties in Haiti to find a solution to the ongoing political situation. Canada’s Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, and International Development Minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, in a ...

OTTAWA, Canada, November 27, 2018 (CMC) – The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank), yesterday, confirmed that it will be selling its insurance operations in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, as part of a shake-up of its businesses that also included ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, November 27, 2018 (CMC) – The Barbados-based insurance company, Sagicor Financial Corporation Limited (Sasgicor), says it has entered into a US$536 million arrangement agreement with the Canadian-based firm, Alignvest Acquisition II Corporation. It said Sagicor shares will be ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 24, 2018 (CMC) – The president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), Kavan Gayle, says that the dispute with Scotiabank Jamaica, over the transitioning of more jobs to other Caribbean countries, could grow into a regional ...

By Matthew Flisfeder Contributing Writer   Recently, posters were discovered on several walls at the University of Manitoba with the statement, “It’s okay to be white.” Other similar incidents were reported in Halifax, Regina and elsewhere around the world. Most ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 17, 2018 (CMC) – An 86-year-old woman may have become the first fatality of the Toronto-bound Fly Jamaica flight that made an emergency landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), last weekend, the Guyana-based online publication, ...