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By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer “The Tears In Their Laughter’’, a new novel, chronicles the experiences of Grenadian and other Caribbean students attending St Francis Xavier University (St FX) in Nova Scotia, Canada, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Jamaica is hoping to harness the skills of Jamaicans in the diaspora to contribute to the development of the country by completing a database of Jamaicans in the diaspora by June ...

By Tony Mbugguss and Dwain Wellington Rattray TORONTO, Ontario – A community of students, friends, colleagues and well-wishers paid final respects to Abshir Hassan last Friday. More than 1,500 filled the mosque, while hundreds more prayed outside, in a final ...

YORK REGION, Ontario – Police Constable, Dominic Reynolds, has been promoted to the rank of Sergeant within the York Regional Police Department. Reynolds is Jamaican born and immigrated to Canada with his parents about 35 years ago as a child. He ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Richard Williams, father and former coach of American tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, will be visiting Toronto next month. He’ll be in the city to launch his book, Black and ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The chairman of the Jamaican Diaspora Foundation (JDF) and chairman of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), Earl Jarrett, says Jamaica has the potential to leverage what he describes as “I-Remittances, which ...

By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Editorial Operations Manager NOVA SCOTIA – There is arguably no greater atrocity than stripping a child of their innocence. Through mental, physical and sexual abuse, wards of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children were ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Showers, on Tuesday, sent organizers, performers, spectators, and government and private sector officials scampering for cover at Nathan Phillips Square at the formal launch of this year’s Toronto Caribbean Carnival. But, ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – One of the Caribbean’s leading LGBTI human rights activists wants to get rid of the notion that the region is the most homophobic place and says there are a lot of ...

TORONTO, Ontario— JAMBANATM is growing up—now in this its fifth year, the One World Festival has been expanded to two days. The Fun for the Family Event with an amazing line up of entertainers highlighting the One World concept will ...