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Quebec’s Toponyny Commission cast aspersions Contact Staff In 1960, Marcus Garvey was designated Jamaica’s first national hero. And today, decades after his death, his memory lives on in the...

(Eventually) I stopped caring about timelines, expectations, deadlines, judgement and failures Submitted by Melissa Murphy Thirty! For such a seemingly small number, it is, in actuality, a milestone we...

Dr. Dexter Johnson delivered keynote address Three university and one CEGEP student were awarded scholarships by the Black Academic Scholarship Fund (BASF) at the annual awards luncheon and ceremony...

Gospel Revival at Beurling On Saturday October 31 at 7:30pm it will be an evening of worship and song featuring chosen few, Priscilla Findlay and more at Beurling Academy...

Haiti Haitian elections come off clean The Haitian General elections went off without major incident on Sunday, October 25, less than three months after parliamentary polls that were marred...

(Artistic Directors from left to right: Don Jordan, Tyrone Benskin, Quincy Armorer, Winston Sutton, Terry Donald, Clarence Bayne) Black Theatre Workshop celebrates 45 years of creating great theatre by...

Ijah’s Forever Blaze on Nov. 7 Contact Staff Ijah Iba has been on the local dancehall circuit for a couple years now and has been steadily making inroads with...

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Contact Staff Jamaican author Marlon James has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for “A Brief History of Seven Killings.” James is the first Jamaican to win the Booker...

For many decades now, the federal government has been paying annual subsidies for all social housing units built before 1994. These subsidies not only allow low-income tenants to pay...