Canada places ban on sponsorship
Ministry moves to curb marriage fraud.
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Persons looking to be sponsored as a new spouse or partner to migrate to Canada will have a much longer wait and face a few new regulations following the introduction of new screening measures.
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UN questions Canadas treatment of African Canadians
Thursday, March 08, 2012
The African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) says the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimi-nation (CERD) has raised concerns about the overrepresentation of African Canadians in the criminal justice system and urged Canada to take immediate action to address this glaring disparity.
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Caribbean News - March 08
Thursday, March 08, 2012
When doctors amputated her right arm that was crushed by jagged rubble during Haitis 2010 earthquake, Marjorie Benoit joined the ranks of Haitis outcasts: the blind, the deaf and those missing limbs.
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Monty, Jamaica and Jazz
Celebrating 50 years together
Thursday, March 08, 2012
The Monty Alexander-hosted, Jazz & Reggae Festival was completely sold out. The event which ran from February 20-March 4 at the world famous Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City featured some of the best names in jazz and reggae...
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Tribute - a moving history of Canadian Blacks in dance
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Vivine Scarlett, artistic director of Dance Immersion has paid Tribute to pioneering Black dancers in a highly, entertaining local production showcased recently.
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More than 450 summer jobs to be filled at Coney Island
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg last week announced the launch of the Citys recruitment efforts to fill over 450 jobs in Coney Island this summer.
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Students celebrate patty day
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Students from four schools in Toronto celebrated Jamaican Patty Day, an initiative of a Toronto bookstore, A Different Booklist, on February 23.
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CIDA pushes regional integration
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Lise Filiatrault, director general, Americas at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has expressed concern that the local population of the CARICOM Member States have not fully embraced the integration process.
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Musical director proud of Soweto Gospel Choir
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Vusimuzi Shabalala is the musical director, tenor and keyboardist of the Soweto Gospel Choir and although he is not related to Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, he says the Shabalalas in South Africa are known as musicians and singers.
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Denham Jolly honoured
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Denham Jolly, a media pioneer and the driving force behind Torontos first Black-owned radio station, Flow 93.5 was honoured during Black History Month.
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Exhibits celebrate Black History
Thursday, March 01, 2012
An exhibit, curated by well-known photographer Michael Chambers, entitled Bathurst Stripped is celebrating the history of a street in Toronto that was home to many immigrants from the Caribbean.
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NYPD surveillance of students called disgusting
Thursday, March 01, 2012
At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear that the New York Police Department might secretly be infiltrating Muslim students lives has spread beyond them to others who find the reported tactics disgusting, as one teenager put it.
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Caribbean News March 01
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Police in Puerto Rico are trying to find out who dropped off a 6-foot-long (1.8-meter) military torpedo at a metal recycling centre along the island's north coast.
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Caribbean News March 01 - Part 2
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille abruptly resigned his post Friday February 24, giving the country a new political crisis that is likely to distract the government and further delay efforts to rebuild from the devastating January 2010 earthquake.
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Preserving the legacy - Part 1
- Artists look to showcase Black culture
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Februarys Black History Month calendar is not enough time to recall the significant impact and influences people of the Diaspora have contributed to the development of Americas backdrop.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012- Major Decline in AIDS Death Among Black New Yorkers
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- A new website for immigrants
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- Local residents rebuff police reports of teen shooting
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