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The federal government has launched a cam-paign to "communi-

cate" the benefits of immigra-tion and push back against what the minister in charge of the file calls "anti-immi-grant, anti-refugee rhetoric."

Immigration Minister

Ahmed Hussen said Cana-da's immigration system is well-managed and, for the most part, selective. As long as Canadians see the benefits of immigration, he said, they support it.

"We cannot take what we have for granted. The

anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric that is all around us — we are not immune to that," he said during a speech and question-and-answer session at the Canadian Club in Toronto last week.

This is the challenge before me and all of us — to

double down on immigra-tion, but also to really, really communicate, and listen carefully and communicate the real benefits of immigra-tion locally. Because if we don't, it's going to be difficult for certain people who have anxieties about the economy and about their future to see immigration as a positive thing."

The new communica-tions campaign comes as the Liberals continue to be hammered by the Opposition Conservatives over border se-curity and the government's handling of asylum seekers crossing into Canada outside of regular border points. The Conservatives have declared it a "crisis," while the govern-ment insists it's a challenge that is being capably man-aged.

As part of the federal initiative, Hussen launched the "Immigration Matters" website, which provides in-formation on how the system works and how immigration offsets the economic effects of an aging population by meeting the economy's la-bour needs.

The initiative was launched a day after Hussen announced increased immi-gration levels, setting a new target of 350,000 for 2021. That's up 40,000 from this year's target of 310,000.

Hussen said we are now living in a world where the word "immigrant" evokes starkly different responses as global migration reaches lev-els not seen since the Second World War.

He said Canada is iso-lated from the pressures of global migration patterns experienced in countries like Germany, where hundreds of thousands of people have arrived to claim asylum.

"We've been sheltered by three oceans and our border to the south. But as we've seen with growing numbers of asylum seekers crossing irregularly from the United States between ports of entry ... we're starting to see some of the challenges faced by others, although the numbers

pale in comparison," he said.Hussen said Canada

must be vigilant in ensuring that newcomers integrate successfully, while listening to the legitimate concerns of people who fear immigrants will take jobs from Canadi-ans. The government says its communications efforts will present statistics and show-case success stories to show that immigrants help the economy and create jobs for Canadians.

Immigration critic Michelle Rempel said Ca-nadians' confidence in the immigration system has been eroded by the Liberal govern-ment's handling of asylum seekers illegally entering the country outside official bor-der points. They see that as a "blatant abuse" of Canada's social programs and a sign of the government's misplaced priorities, she said.

"Where Canadians have lost support for immigration over the last year stems from the fact that (Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau has created a new permanent stream of entry into the country with a zero-day wait time, which has no sort of criterion on who can enter it and places a great burden on Canada's social welfare programs," she said.

Trudeau's approach to the immigration file has been "unfocused, unplanned and ill thought out," she said.

Asked about the impact of asylum seekers on Toron-to's housing situation, Hus-

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The need for the Black community to shoulder its re-

sponsibility in the face of racism and related issues such as youth gun vio-lence, was emphasized last Saturday at a meet-ing of Expose Toronto Committee (ETC).

About a dozen speakers, including parents, youth, veter-an community leaders and others, discused several matters plagu-ing African-Canadians such as discrimination, marginalization, victim-ization, criminalization, the pain of losing young Black men through gun violence, and the trauma that many experience at the death of a family member or friend, as well as through negative interaction with police.

“I think we can do better,’’ said Valarie Steele, in offering sugges-tions to the meeting on the way forward. Steele has served in leader-ship positions in several organizations including the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation, Jamaican Canadian Association, Acting on Behalf of our Children, and the Black Action Defense Committee.

“We need to take responsibility for our-selves. We, as a people, we don’t support each other enough,’’ said Steele. “We all have to come together and forge a bond of sisterhood and brotherly love and broth-erly and sisterly care.’’

Louis March,Found-er of the Zero Gun Vio-lence Movement, (ZGM) noted that there has been a more than one hundred per cent increase in gun violence in Toronto since

John Tory became mayor of the city.

He suggested that Tory needs to have "an honest and complete dis-cussion" about the gun violence trends in the City, that includes many of the stakeholders that are usually missing from the discussion.

March said these should include the three levels of government, victims of the violence, people responsible for the shootings, com-munity leaders, justice and correction systems, public health, research specialists and educators,

He also suggested that the Black commu-nity itself must take an organized leadership role in community safety and stop depending on police and politicians to solve the gun violence problem.

" Their historical bad decisions and neglect have been significant contributing factors to today’s gun violence crisis," he added.

The responsibility theme was also echoed by speaker Kenneth Jeffers, a longtime com-munity proactivist and current member of the Toronto Police Services Board.

“We have to take responsibility that we have not been taking,’’

said Jeffers.He explained that

he has attended more protests than anyone else in the meeting room on Saturday, has participat-ed in numerous commu-nity meetings over the years, and has been part of more than 100 groups.

“I just don’t think that we are learning enough to change,’’ Jeffers said. “Do we know things that are done before? And, if we do, why are we do-ing it again and again and again?’’

In some quarters, according to Jeffers, there is a lack of respect for the Black community which, he claimed, is often “being played by the system’’.

“Part of the reason for people not being able to respect us is because they can play us at anytime, anyhow, anyplace. They’ve done that and continue to do that,’’ said Jeffers. “There are no resourc-es in this community that can effectively deal with some of the things that we deal with.’’

As an example of the resource struggle of the community, Jef-fers pointed out that the City of Toronto has not provided core

funding to any of the established organizations serving the Black com-munity.

As part of its mis-sion, ETC says it intends to “create alliances with other community leaders and organizations to ef-fect sustainable change’’.

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Black community needs to shoulder its responsibility, meeting told

Kenneth Jeffers Louis March Valarie Steele


Darnel Harris is a young Caribbe-an-Canadian na-tional, who has been recognized for his innovative activities aimed at improving other people’s lives.

Harris, Executive Director of Our Gre-enway and Director of Vélo Canada Bikes, is one of four persons presented with 2018 Urban Leadership Awards by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI).

The awardees, according to the CUI, “are recognized for their commitment and contributions to cre-ating healthy urban

communities’’, and for “their exceptional work’’ that has assisted in driving “transforma-tional change in Cana-da’s urban regions’’.

Harris, who was born in Canada to Dominican parents, received the “NextGen Award’’, with the CUI commending him as “an emerging leader whose work is helping improve the health of our com-munities’’.

“It’s a great honour to receive this award. Really, I’m humbled that the work that we’ve been able to do with the community has been recognized,’’ Harris told The Caribbean Camera at the CUI awards cere-

mony last Thursday.Harris has been

working with groups of people on the Greenway project in northwest Toronto for about four years. This year, for the first time, he organized the “Cargo Bike Cham-pionship’’ – an event exposing people to new types of bikes capable of moving both people and goods.

The CUI lauded Harris as “a planner and community advo-cate’’who is “break-ing down barriers to practical mobility for all ages and abilities. He has a passion for space animation, mobility and sustain-ability’’.

The “NextGen Award’’ to Harris, said the CUI, is for his “research and advocacy advancing equitable, dignified and sustain-able mobility across To-ronto's inner suburbs.

" By using inclu-sive community en-gagement as a tool for social change around

local mobility, Darnel has produced several community educa-tion and engagement events, led the devel-opment of a northwest Toronto Community Bike Centre and cham-pioned efforts to see a Mobility Greenway Conservancy built’’.

The CUI also noted

that the “demonstrat-ed commitment’’ by Harris to “providing practical mobility for families and business-es across Toronto has helped improve the health and resiliency of our communities while solving practical urban challenges.’’

NEWS

By Lincoln DePradine

Executive Director of Our Greenway receives Urban Leadership Award

Darnel Harris


A 2018 study of 986 workers in the skilled trades re-

veals that they are among the happiest workers in Canada.

The report, called Trading Up: Why the Future of Education in Canada Must be Skilled, provides evidence showing why careers in the skilled trades should be described as highly fulfilling, especially given the country’s desperate need for skilled workers in the industrial sector.

“Compared to the general working popu-lation, tradespeople are much more likely to have fun at work and to feel like they can be them-selves. They also have more freedom to be an

entrepreneur or work anywhere in the world,” says Project Director Dr. Jon Callegher of George Brown College in Toronto.

“But most impor-tantly, they feel a much stronger sense of accom-plishment and purpose. This can’t be underesti-mated, given the amount of time we spend at our jobs and our individual desire for meaning in life.”

While the report is written for educators, administrators, and stu-dents, Callegher hopes it also reaches immigrant parents, who are more likely than their domes-tic counterparts to view jobs in the trades as low status.

The report re-veals that 64 per cent of tradespeople believe they have “really ac-complished something worthwhile” through their work, compared with 47 per cent of the general working popula-tion. They are also more likely to report that their work gives them a “sense of success and achieve-ment” (68 per cent vs. 49 per cent) and “a lot of satisfaction” (65 per cent vs. 48 per cent). As well, 60 per cent of tradespeo-ple report “often having fun” while working, compared with 43 per cent of other working Canadians.

“But what parents—immigrants and domes-tic—may not realize,” say

Callegher, “is that careers in the skilled trades are much less stressful and allow for greater work-life balance than jobs in other sectors, in addi-tion to being secure and well-paying.”

The need to promote the skilled trades in a new light inspired the creation of a YouTube series that Callegher calls Job Talks. His research team travelled across Ontario to film trades-people talking passion-ately about their jobs and editing the interviews into short, high impact videos for educators, counsellors, and trainers to share with students and parents.

“The response from educators and students

has been overwhelmingly positive,” says Callegher. “It’s really captivating when you can see and hear the passion in someone’s voice when they talk about their work.” The video series

continues to grow, which hundreds of subscribers and over 65,000 views.

To download the Trading Up report and view the video series, visit www.jobtalks.org

Michael Browne, Antigua and Bar-buda's Minister of Education, Sports, Youth and Gender Affairs, will be the keynote speaker at a gala in Brampton to mark his country's 37th year of political independence from Britain.

The gala, organized by the Antigua and Barbuda Association of Toronto, will be held at the Pearson Convention Centre on Saturday.

Menace , one of Antigua and Barbuda's leading soca artistes, is scheduled to perform at

the gala. (Antigua and Bar-

buda attained political independence in 1981.Independence Day is celebrated as a public holiday in Antigua and Barbuda on November 1.)

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Antigua and Barbuda’sindependence gala

Michael Browne

Immigrant parents more likely to view jobs in the trades as low statusthan their domestic counterparts - Dr. Jon Callegher

Frances E. DelSol, the Canadian-based Trade and Invest-ment Commissioner for Dominica, has received the Sisse-rou Award, Domini-ca's second highest national award, at an Independence Day ceremony in Roseau on the weekend.

DelSol who retired from Bell Canada sev-eral years ago as Associ-

ate-Director, has been the Dominica Relief

Coordinator in Canada

following the island's devastation by Hurricane Maria last September.

She has been actively involved in voluntary

community work with several organizations and

is the recipient of many accolades and awards.

Dominica’s Trade and Investment Commissioner receives the Sisserou Award

Frances DelSol receives award President Savarin


The anti-immigrant rhetoric spewed by President Donald Trump has been stoking the fires of racism beyond the

borders of the United States.Canada has not been spared from

these hateful flames and the white supremacists in our midst seem to have been emboldened by the dangerous Trump rhetoric.

Just recently, during the munici-pal election campaign, there was one mayoral candidate in Toronto who had called for Canada to return to being a 96 per cent white, European country.

Of course, such a Canada would not include most the people in Toron-to's Caribbean community. It certainly would not include most of our readers.

What then would happen to us? Would we be kicked out of Canada ? Sent back to our " islands in the sun "?

As Ahmed Hussen, Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, noted during a visit to Toronto last week, the anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric "is all around us -we are not immune to that."

So we are pleased to note that the Trudeau government has recognized the problem and has launched a cam-paign to "communicate" the benefits of immigration and push back against what Ahmed calls "anti-immigrant, anti-refugee rhetoric."

During a speech and ques-tion-and-answer session at the Cana-

dian Club, the immigration minister ex-plained that the challenge before us is to "double down on immigration " and also to " communicate the real benefits of immigration locally."

He warned that if we don't, it's going to be difficult for certain people who have anxieties about the economy and about their future to see immigra-tion as a positive thing."

We congratulate the Trudeau government on launching its pro-immi-grant campaign at a time when there is clearly a great need for such an initia-tive.

With respect to the refugee problem in Canada, it is clear that is not going to go away anytime soon as "irregular" asylum seekers continue to escape from the United States and head north.

Fortunately, Canada is not plan-ning to build a wall to keep people out.

A study, conducted earlier this year by the polling firm,Ipsos, on behalf of Immigration, Refugees and Citizen-

ship Canada, noted that Canadians are worried and confused about asylum seekers.

The study also noted that a per-ception exists that so-called "irregular" migrants are exploiting the system to get express entry into Canada and that security procedures are being compro-mised as a result.

There are also concerns that asylum seekers have contributed to a housing crisis in Toronto.

But as Hussen pointed out, a long-standing affordable housing shortage existed before the current wave of border-crossers.

He further pointed out that it is misleading and very dangerous to suggest that the asylum seekers have contributed to a crisis within the shel-ter system.

We believe that it's important, for the government to provide more in-formation through its current pro-im-migration campaign to calm the fears of those who are worried about the

asylum seekers.Many in our Caribbean commu-

nity in Toronto who came to Canada in the 1960s and '70s have not forgotten that it was the Liberal government of the day who had opened the doors for them to enter the country and make a new life for themselves and their families.

They still speak in praise of Prime Ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau for opening the doors.

The racists among us who spread-ing anti-immigration propaganda should remember that they too come from families who at some point came to Canada from some other country. They may have forgotten their histo-ry but they too are from immigrant families. They are not native Indians or Inuit.

With a Liberal government in power, we expect that a sensible, just and compassionate immigration policy will prevail, despite Conservative and racist attacks.

Publisher/Editor Anthony Joseph

Editorial Page Editor Michael Lashely

Editorial Team Lincoln Depradine Oscar Wailoo

Contributors Carton Joseph Luann Philhence Sukram Ramkissoon Megan Scott Stephen Weir Mahadeo Bissoon

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President Savarin calls on Dominicans to continue to contribute to their country’s recovery

The Common-wealth of Domini-ca which was dev-

astated by Hurricane Maria last September, observed the 40th an-niversary of its politi-cal independence from Britain last Saturday. In his address to fel-low nationals, Presi-dent Charles Savarin noted that the country faced many challenges over the last 40 years and he called on Do-minicans to continue to contribute to the coun-try's " "recovery and restoration effort." The following is an excerpt from Savarin's Inde-pendence Day address:

There was a sense of optimism that 2017/2018 would be a year of growth, development and recon-struction. Then on Septem-ber 6, 2017, Irma, a category 5 hurricane, swept through the Caribbean, scaring the living daylights out of us but missing us completely. Irma wreaked havoc on our northern neighbours. Just twelve days later on 18th of

September 2017, Maria also a category 5 hurricane, but even more powerful than Hurricane Irma, struck. Not a single community was left unaffected. All utili-ties, ports, airports, roads, bridges, buildings, crops, even the very forests, were destroyed. A report from the Police confirmed that there were 65 fatalities across the island, including 34 persons who were missing and presumed to be dead. The scene on the morning of September 19, 2017 was one of total devastation as if we had been "carpet bombed" or had had "the four winds of the earth" unleashed upon us by "the four angels" (Revelation 7) in the midst

of even more torrential rains than that unleashed on us by Tropical Storm Erika two years earlier. The loss...was estimated in the region of 226% of GDP.

We have come a long way since that frightful morning and are committed in our determination to re-build even better and stron-ger and to make Dominica the first climate resilient country in the world.

The theme chosen for the observance of this year's 40th Anniversary of Independence, "My Love, My Home, My Dominica – Building a Resilient Coun-try," is indeed very timely and relevant. It requires all of us to demonstrate our love for our home and coun-try, Dominica, by applying an even greater sense of togetherness, commitment, dedication, tolerance, perse-verance and determination, to proof our country against Global Climate Change. If as we say we really love Dominica, now is the time to prove it by putting our words into action and be-coming an active participant

in the rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.

The road ahead is going to be challenging but we have shown in the past that we are up to the task. We all have a part to play in the national effort: wheth-er we live on the island or live abroad in the diaspora; whether we support the gov-ernment of the day or are opposed to the government or hold no political prefer-ence one way or the other; whether we are Catholic, Protestant or non-Christian, it does not matter, when once we consider ourselves to be Dominican or of Dominican extraction. For we are told in Matthew 5:45 that: "He maketh the sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." And as President Kennedy would often say "a rising tide lifts all boats."

Let us therefore resolve to embrace our island home Dominica and find ways to contribute to its develop-ment, better and stronger, in the wake of Erika and Maria.

Photographer Gwyn Chapman

President Savarin

Pushing back against the anti-immigrant rhetoric


COMMENTARY Canada’s Premiere Caribbean Newspaper • Serving 380,315 Caribbean people weekly in Toronto COMMENTARYCanada’s Premiere Caribbean Newspaper • Serving 380,315 Caribbean people weekly in Toronto

By David Jessop

Last September, Moody’s, the credit rating agency, pub-

lished a report that in-dicated the potentially negative economic and political implications of demographic change in the Caribbean and Cen-tral America. It suggest-ed that if government and the private sector do not make signifi-cant improvements in education, health care and other social deter-minants, many nations will struggle to remain competitive, particular-ly after 2050.

The report’s find-ings were amplified just over a week ago in a webinar hosted by Marla Dukharan, one of the region’s lead-ing economists, and Moody’s Assistant Vice President, the analyst, David Rogovic, who in an on-line dialogue made clear the policy issues that needed to be addressed.

Moody’s research contained potentially alarming statistics and tables that pointed to several critical and so far, largely unaddressed long-term policy chal-lenges facing the region.

Put simply, it indicated that although declining, the Caribbe-an still had the highest net outward migration in the world and the highest age dependency ratio between retirees

and citizens who work. The report also indicat-ed that not only were very large numbers of the most highly edu-cated and productive young people in their mid-twenties, and es-pecially women, leaving the region mainly for the US, but that the Caribbean’s working population was dimin-ishing.

The webinar addi-tionally indicated that the replacement rate by the old for young in some Caribbean nations such as Barbados is very high, and that the region’s average age growth is accelerating compared with Central America, so that by 2050 one quarter of the Caribbean population will be over 60 and clos-er to 80 years old.

What this means is that the spending burden on government and the private sector is set to increase incre-mentally and that fiscal reform and structural change will be required to ensure economies remain competitive.

The exchange be-tween Marla Dukharan and David Rogovic went further. It indicat-ed that the economic future of some parts of the region could be in doubt without a fundamental change in thinking about the scope and availability of education provision, en-suring wage equality for women, the role of new technology in develop-ment and government, the rational delivery of social welfare pro-grammes, addressing crime, and the nature of the future relationship with the Diaspora.

The alternative,

they suggested, would be cuts to pensions, and a further deterioration in public health care and education.

Paradoxically, the strength of the Moody’s report was that it did not make recommen-dations. As the agency points out, demograph-ics are a secondary force in shaping credit markets, so their study should be seen as an adjunct to the credit ratings they and others provide commercially to enable investors to take longer term decisions about a country.

What Moody’s well-researched, sta-tistically-based and accessible report does is explode the myth perpetrated by some governments about their capacity to contin-ue to meet the demands of economic growth, the young and the aging through a ‘business as usual’ approach.

Focussing on the ten Caribbean countries and five Central Amer-ican nations which it provides ratings for, the report suggested that apart from improving social and human capi-tal indicators, there are steps that governments might take to improve

their sovereign credit profiles. Moody’s indi-cated that among the positive responses gov-ernments might make to address demographic change were: encour-aging inward migration of those of working age or with particular skills; attracting better off retirees from other na-tions able to purchase retirement services and health care; the intro-duction of electronic government; and in-novative approaches to income redistribution.

The ratings agency also observed that while outward migration resulted in relatively stable flows of remit-tances which supported domestic consumer demand and growth, this exposed the region to external shocks and the potential tightening in immigration policy in receiving countries.

What Moody’s makes clear is that the Caribbean is on a wholly predictable but unsustainable path. Its report demonstrates that policy makers must find new ways to respond and reshape policy if there is to be any hope of delivering long-term economic growth and meeting

future citizen demand across the demographic spectrum.

Speaking about this, Marla Dukharan says that she believes that the importance of the report is that it touches on many often-overlooked but important issues. Apart from demonstrating challenges not typically associated with sover-eign credit ratings, it indicates, she says the key sources of Caribbe-an vulnerability.

“We usually think about this in relation to external forces such as climate change and trade wars driving socio-economic un-derperformance, or internal factors such as institutional weakness, fiscal irresponsibility, and corruption. But rarely do we link shift-ing demographics as a source of vulnerability”, she notes. “This report shows us just how this is linked much more closely than we may have imagined”.

She believes that policy makers need to address institutional weakness at a funda-mental level. “If we can tackle crime on a regional scale, gender inequality, and wealth

and income inequality, it should be possible to mitigate some of the vulnerability”, she observes.

Some governments, most notably Jamaica and Barbados, in part encouraged by the IMF, are working in this direction. Cuba too has recognised the poten-tial threat that demo-graphic change poses, forming a government commission responsible for addressing popula-tion growth: something that seems not to exist elsewhere in the region.

Unfortunately, most Caribbean govern-ments and politicians fail to look past their electoral horizon to rec-ognise the fundamental nature of the social and economic decisions that the unstoppable force of demographic change requires.

It is not often a report appears that demonstrates so clearly the powerful factors at play beneath the surface in the Caribbean and the significant policy issues that need to be addressed.

Moody’s report and the subsequent webinar made clear that there is a pressing need to break through the complacen-cy and political inertia that grips much of the region. Together they indicated that there is a pressing need for a consensus to form on the steps needed to address the potentially destabilising effects of demographic change.

(David Jessop is a consultant to the

Caribbean Council and can be contacted at

[email protected])

The potentially destabilising effect of demographic change


A five-star resort in Turks and Caicos Islands is offer-

ing visitors an escape to the Caribbean this fall at an incredible value that’s hard to beat.

Sailrock Resort, located on the island of South Caicos, is offering 35 per cent off room rates, giving travellers an opportunity to escape from the stresses of life to reset and realign in “quintessential Turks and Caicos”, one of the

most unspoiled corners of the Caribbean.

Tapped as one of the “Hottest New Hotels of the Year” by Forbes in 2017, Sailrock fea-tures lavish suites and beachfront villas with breathtaking views of the ocean. Private pools, patios and garden show-ers enhance the luxury experience for discern-ing guests.

The limited flash sale offers more than one-third off the best

rates on all suite and villa categories and daily gourmet breakfast in the Great House Restau-rant. An additional benefit is that rates in-

clude a short round-trip flight on InterCaribbean Airways between Prov-idenciales and South Caicos as well as round-trip ground transfers

between the airport and Sailrock Resort. Guests who book five nights in the Beachfront Villas will receive compli-mentary air transfers between Providenciales and South Caicos on a private charter.

Rates start at US$520 per night in a Ridgetop Ocean View Suite (excluding taxes and fees) and are valid for travel until Decem-ber 21, 2018. A three-night minimum stay is required. Bookings must be made by November 30, 2018.

Sailrock Resort, a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World, opened its doors in January 2017. The only five-star resort to arrive on the island, Sailrock brings a new level of luxury to South

Caicos without disrupt-ing the quiet rhythm that makes the island so unique. There are just 28 suites and villas, as well as the Great House, spread over 52 hilltop and oceanfront acres, so guests find their own private slice of South Caicos whether in a Beachfront Villa or Ridgetop Suite.

And travellers looking for a Caribbe-an home away from home discover it in the Private Peninsula Villas, located in a neighboring 770-acre enclave with an ecological focus and full access to the resort amenities. The flexible ownership model wel-comes both year-round residents and short-term lets through the resort rental program.

TRAVEL

Online travel platform Airbnb and the Caribbean Tourism Organi-zation (CTO) have announced new commitments to pro-mote authentic and sustainable travel in the region.

Last year alone, over 1.6 million guests booked accommoda-tion in the Caribbean through the platform, an increase of 117 per cent compared to 2016. The CTO said that through collaboration with local stakeholders, Airbnb has demonstrated its commitment to support healthy tourism and has signed collaboration or voluntary tax collection agreements with 14

countries in the region.During a recent visit

by CTO chief executive officer and Secretary General Hugh Riley, to Airbnb’s San Francisco headquarters, the two entities signed a Memo-randum of Understand-ing (MOU) pledging to cooperate on areas of mutual interest includ-ing: the promotion of Caribbean countries as desirable tourism desti-nations; the undertak-ing of joint research to understand the impact of the home-sharing on economic recovery following the 2017 hur-ricane season and other areas of mutual interest to both organizations.

“We are proud of the fact that the Carib-

bean is in such high demand among diverse and very discerning global travelers. Essen-tially Airbnb is helping to make our region more competitive and to spread the benefits of the tourism industry across traditional and non-traditional seg-ments of our communi-ties,” Riley said.

Chris Lehane, Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs for Airbnb said his company was deeply committed to the Caribbean and was proud to take this next step with the CTO “to advance our mission of local, authentic, and sustainable travel in the region”.

“The platform helps

diversify the tourism sector, attract new trav-elers, and empower over 50,000 hosts across the region,” he said.

Hosts set their de-sired listing price on the platform and pay a three per cent commission to Airbnb for its platform services, allowing them to pocket 97 per cent of the nightly rate. In the Caribbean, a typical host earned US$3,700 in the last 12 months.

Through various marketing partnerships in the region, the plat-form has collaborated with regional tourism boards and enabled destinations to reach Airbnb’s vast global community through the company’s robust media

platforms. This broader partnership with the CTO includes exploring collaborative ways to market the region and partnerships to facilitate destination market-ing, host recruitment, improving the guest experience, and the ex-pansion of disaster relief efforts.

Earlier this year, Airbnb and the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) also agreed to

launch a destination marketing campaign to highlight the island, in addition to cementing a lodging tax collection agreement. Puerto Rico collaborated with Airb-nb on a series of tar-geted efforts, including the launch of Airbnb’s popular Experiences feature on island to help promote tourism in the country as it rebuilds following Hurricane Maria.

Airbnb and CTO in partnership to promote tourism in the Caribbean

Travellers invited to sail into savings at Turks and Caicos resort


KM Imports Inc. of Pickering, On-tario, the Canadian distributor of the popular Solo soft drinks and a wide range of food prod-ucts, has announced that it will continue to provide its cus-tomers with high quality goods and service.

The announcement was made following the recent passing of Khalil Mohammed, president of the company.

Zaheer Moham-med, the son of the late Khalil Mohammed, has given up his job on Bay Street where he worked in investment manage-ment, to take over the company

He said he will strive to maintain the legacy of "high quality goods and service" left by his Khalil Moham-med.

In an interview with the Caribbean Camera, he spoke about the growth of the company from a "basement oper-ation" about 20 years ago, to a fairly large import business serving customers in several cities across Canada.

He recalled that

he was just about ten, when his father started selling preserved Chi-nese prunes, imported from Trinidad, to vari-ous West Indian shops in Toronto.

"It was a small item but a big seller."

"Later, he brought in from Trinidad a popular brand of candy -dinner mints - and again, it sold well at the shops where people went to buy their yams, sweet potato, dasheen bush and other food items from "back home."

"Soon enough, the living room of our

home in Scarborough became the storage unit for candy and other small items which he imported from Trini-dad,"

He said that at the time his father worked at a window manufac-turing company and would visit the shops with his products when he was "off on the weekends."

Mohammed said his mother also played a "big role "in the import business " from the early days."

"She was hand and foot with him."

As the business

expanded, he got a van, loaded it up with his goods and was off to the stores.

Then he had a bright idea: Why not import Solo soft drinks?

"So he brought in the popular Solo bever-ages and that was a big success."

"Trinidadians who saw Solo beverages at the various shops were escatic.It was like a piece of Trinidad right here in Toronto and it too was a big seller.

He said by then his father was working full time in his import busi-ness and had his own

warehouse and started to supply Chief Curry and a range of other food products to many many stores,

He also expanded his operation to several other provinces where today Solo beverages and some of his other products are available,

he noted.Mohammed said

he is looking forward to further growth and development of KM Imports Inc.

" And I wish to thank the community for its past and continu-ing support,"

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For Toronto science geeks, young and not so young,

last Thursday evening turned out to be a spe-cial occasion.

Over 200 persons, many of them, children with their parents, came to the Ontario Science Centre to listen to a real Canadian science hero, Dr. Dave Williams.

The 66-year old retired astronaut was on stage with Andrew Bedeau and the Weather Network's Chris Mei to talk about his experienc-es in space as part of the Science Centre’s Great Conversations speaker series.

“ I think that it is a good thing to expose children to science and space travel is something that gets people really ex-cited,” Dr Williams told

the Caribbean Camera “Understanding and

teaching about the chal-lenges of space inspire (young people) to have BIG dreams."

Dr. Williams told his audience that he always dreamed about leav-ing the planet. Eleven days before his seventh birthday, this "curious kid" from Saskatchewan committed to a long-term goal: space travel. Despite setbacks like a cancer diagnosis, his curiosity and passion allowed him to reach his goal.

Thirty-seven years later, the Canadian ER (emergency room) medical doctor, diver and pilot, completed his first space flight. With two space shuttle missions, seventeen hours of spacewalks, five honorary degrees and the Orders of Ontario and

Canada under his belt, he has just published a book – Defying Limits: Lessons From The Edge Of The Universe –and it should come as no sur-prise that it is all about life on and off Planet Earth.

Dr. Williams's presentation was multi faceted -slides, space vid-eos and funny personal stories. He then had an on-stage talk with TV announcer Chris Mei and ended it all by taking questions from the children in the nearly full theatre.

Keeping the as-tronaut on topic and on time fell to Andre Bedeau, a member of the Science Centre’s Board of directors. Bedeau whose parents are Caribbean immigrants (his father is from Trinidad and his mother is from Grena-da), had the tough task

of being both the ring-master and the master of ceremonies.

By day, Bedeau works at the TD Bank and at night sits on the Board of the Ontario Science Centre. He has been with the Science Centre for almost two years.

“ One important reason why I joined the Board of the Science Centre was to find ways to get more young black people to take an interest in science, he said.

" With cuts to budgets, schools are no longer given the same opportunities as I did growing up in Malvern. So as the Ontario Science Centre develops its plans for the next 25 years, I want to ensure students from low programmed schools are a part of it.”

“ Growing up I was a part of the youth wing

of the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Ontario and the National Council of Trinidad and Tobago Associations in Canada and some of my best memories were hearing the leaders talk about their experiences and challenges with their adopted home,"Bedeau said.

Dr. Williams said he tells children " to chase their dreams, no matter what.

" I was a doctor in ER in Toronto when I saw an ad in the Globe and Mail which asked if you wanted to be an astronaut. Yeah I wanted

to be an astronaut. Mine was one of 5,330 appli-cations that were sent in - but 600 were from kids less than 10 years old."

Dr. Dave Williams has lots of fans who lined up after the talk to buy his book, get his autograph and get him to mug for pictures.

Earlier in the week his new book landed on store shelves. It is an au-tobiography about how his career has unfolded from his early days in Saskatchewan to more recent years as a CEO of the Southlake Regional Hospital in Newmarket.

FEATURE

By Stephen Weir

Inspiring young people with lessons from the edge of the universe

Andrew Bedeau and Dr. Dave Williams


Starting as a base-ment operation to serve a few West

Indian groceries around the city who want-ed good quality roti “skins,” Roti Roti has emerged 25 years later as one of the leading West Indian restaurants in the Greater Toronto Area.

A series of small advertisements in The Caribbean Camera in the early days of the operation brought a tre-mendous response from families who wanted a real traditional Trini-style roti - “dhalpouri and paratha” (buss up shot).

And soon, with the incredible prices of their products, Roti Roti owners Ronnie and Marisha Ramsawak rec-ognized that they had to move out of the base-ment to better serve the growing demands of the community.

And so, on Novem-ber 17 1994, Roti Roti opened a West Indian restaurant at Lake Shore Boulevard and Kipling in Etobicoke.

They never looked back.

And Roti Roti has thrived, making its hot and delicious rotis and doubles which have customers continuously flocking the store for more and more...

When Roti Roti introduced the wedding sized buss-up-shot to the GTA, people were amazed that they could feed twelve grown men with one roti. This soon earned Ronnie Ram-

sawak the nickname Ronnie the big Roti man.

That however is not the store’s slogan.

Instead Roti Roti boasts that it is a place Where no roti is cooked before its time and that all its rotis are Hot Off The Tawa.

To ensure that cus-tomers know that this is not just a slogan, Roti Roti has an open-con-cept kitchen so that customers can see their rotis being made.

These innovations were not enough for the Ramsawaks who were determined to serve the very best for their customers. So they came up with another product: a great quality doubles. Now at Roti Roti you don’t just get a doubles. You get the biggest doubles in the world made in the true traditional Trinidadian style. It’s called the Super Duper Large Doubles. And so anoth-er slogan was created- Roti Roti - Home of the World’s Largest Dou-bles, which sell for just $2.25 and as a Special to customers who Buy 5 Doubles they get one Free!

Ronnie and Mari-sha, originally from Gasparillo. Trinidad, insist that that custom-ers deserve the best. “That’s why we spend so much time and energy to ensure that the products we sell are top quality with the best available ingredients,” says Ronnie.

“Our restaurant is a reflection of Trinidad and Tobago in particu-lar and the Caribbean as a whole in our new society,” he said.

“We must offer top quality products because our community demands it and to show our Canadian friends

that our community have very high stand-ards for quality food,” he added.

Celebrating this special occasion, Roti Roti can supply you

with delicious Trinidad and Tobago treats like Roti, Doubles, whole wheat Alloo Pies Pou-lourie and more.

But you are ad-vised to call ahead with your orders to avoid the long lines. Just come in at the

right time and you pick up your order, hot and ready, waiting for you. fresh off the tawa.

Another great surprise are the prices - some of the best in the

GTA with an extra large dhalpuri for only $2.99 a single Paratha $2,99 and a wedding sized paratha (which could feed up to 12 adults) sells for just $13.99.

Roti Roti also offers a Vegetarians Delight consisting of numerous veggie dishes. We also offer Every Day lunch specials from $4.99 and mini Roti, Men-us can also be picked up in store. They are also available online at

www.rotirotirestaurant.com.

Orders are now been taken for Diva-li. But you can place yours for other spe-cial occasions such as christenings, weddings, Christmas or even a big or small lime at your home.

But please make your bookings early to avoid the rush.

Contact Ronnie at 416-746-9208

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Where no roti is cooked before its time

Marisha Ramsawak


Time was when carnival had ended in Toronto

and the wrap-up band parties had been finally laid to rest, revellers began thinking about parang, Christmas and even hockey. Not so this year!

Even though the 2019 grand parade is still nine months away, several mas' bands in the city have already announced their themes for next year's extrava-ganza and are holding events to showcase what’s in store for rev-ellers.

Among the "early birds" is EPIC Carnival. This small band is por-

traying Persona. " We want a unique

theme that captures the energy, passion, imagination and culture of our masquerader,” Nadia Jethoo, the Epic Carnival Volunteer

Coordinator, told the Caribbean Carnival.

” The focal point of our 2019 theme is im-age and self expression. We hope that through our sections ,our mas-queraders will make a

connection and see their true expression.”

Will and Lisa Mor-ton’s Fantazia, another small band, is "turning ten" in 2019 and the theme for their "mile-stone year" is Rebirth. Although the band is yet to provide full details about their presenta-tion, their Facebook site has a dynamic video with a flying phoenix that bursts into flame before showing the word REBIRTH.

The band has been very active this fall. On Friday it held an "appreciation night" for carnival revellers and a costume launch party for their forthcoming carnival trip to the Ba-hamas.

In 2019, Fantazia will take to the streets of Nassau for the fifth annual Road March Pa-rade, the showcase event in the Bahamas Carni-val, to be held on May 4. Toronto masqueraders will be jumping up with the Euphoria Madness Junkanoo Carnival Band.

The Seusahai family’s Tribal Carni-val, well known for its creative costumes, told the Caribbean Camera that their 2019 theme

is Magic and that they will be back in Grand Cayman next year supplying costumes and taking to the streets in the Batabano Carnival.

Toronto’s Carnival Nationz will also be tak-ing part in next year's Cayman carnival.

Sunlime Canada, a small family-oriented group, which has been presenting mas' in Toronto for more than 20 years, will hit the streets next year with Mesmerize.

“Our theme was launched on Labour Day as is our practice,” said Sunlime band manager Dwayne Gunness.

Atlantic Mas' which made a big splash in the 2018 Toronto carnival parade with Trinida-dian soca star Machel Montano performing in the band, is report-ed to be "already very active,"though it has not yet announced its 2019 theme.

The band is hosting

a ski weekend (De-cember 14 - 16) at Blue Mountain.

Atlantic Mas' will be teaming up with Trinidad’s Yuma mas' band for next year's carnival in Trinidad.

No one is apologiz-ing for getting a jump on 2019. In fact, band or-ganizers are saying they are energized talking about next summer as winter approaches

“Yes it is early! But we were excited to have the theme ready to re-veal at our appreciation party back in Septem-ber,” said Epic Carni-val’s Nadia Jethoo.

“We cannot wait to see the theme expressed not only at the Toronto Carnival, but also in programming through-out the carnival season. Although the word Persona sounds broad and general , we have an entire host of ideas to bring with it,”

she added.

By Stephen Weir

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Toronto mas’ bands getting the jump on 2019


Scrunter (Irwin Reyes Johnson), the uncrowned soca parang king, will be the headliner at the 18th annual Soca Pa-rang Lime to be held at the Metropolitan Centre in Scarbor-ough on Sunday.

And according to the organizers of the show, he will be singing his old favourites which are always well received by his Canadian fans, as well as a "brand new song titled Santa is the Sanitary Inspector.

The song tells the story of how people frantically clean up their homes for Christ-mas and positions Santa Claus as the

inspector who approves their work.

Will it be as popular as his old number, Ah piece ah pork?

Parang aficionados are not placing any bets - not yet anyway.

But they are anxiously awaiting his arrival at the Joan Al-exander's Soca Parang Lime

They say he hasn't been in Toronto since 2011.

A former Trini-dad calypso monarch, Scrunter has received a Trinidad and Tobago national award (the Humming Bird Gold) for calypso.

Also appearing at the Soca Parang Lime

will be several local ensembles.

Organizers of the show say Los Pajaros, Los Amigos and Moka

" will perform "double duty as the backup band for Scrunter."

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Calypso-nian Winston Scarbor-ough, better known as The Original De Fosto Himself, died last week at his home in Morvant. He was 64.

Scarborough was reported to have been ailing for some time.

In 1976 he made his debut in the calyp-so arena .He has been described as a prolific composer of steelpan

music. Many of his tunes were played at panorama competi-tions.

Abandoned as a baby with no name, Scarborough was found in Belmont, Port of Spain by a woman from Tobago, who took him to the Tacarigua Orphanage.

At the orphanage he learned to read and write music.

The Original De Fosto Himself

The Original De Fosto Himself dies at 64

Scrunter will be the headliner at Soca Parang Lime on Sunday

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Scrunter


MOSCOW - The lead-ers of Russia and Cuba vowed on Friday to expand "strategic" ties and urged the United States to lift its block-ade of Cuba.In a joint statement issued after their talks, Russian President Vlad-imir Putin and Cuban counterpart Miguel

Diaz-Canel denounced U.S. "interference into domestic affairs of sovereign nations" and spoke in support of closer integration be-tween Russia and Latin American nations.Diaz-Canel, who re-placed Raul Castro as president last April, hailed the "brotherly"

ties between Russia and Cuba and invited Putin to visit next year.During the Cold War, the Soviet Union poured billions of dollars in supplies and subsidies into Cuba, its staunchest Latin American ally. But ties withered after the 1991 Soviet collapse as Rus-

sia, hit by an economic meltdown, withdrew its economic aid to Cuba.Putin, who visited Cuba in 2000 and 2014, has sought to revive ties with the old Caribbean ally.Following the Krem-lin talks, Putin and Diaz-Canel vowed to expand political,

economic and military ties between Russia and Cuba.Cuba's defense min-ister, Leopoldo Cintra Frias, is set to visit Mos-cow later this month to discuss specific plans for military-technical cooperation.Sergei Storchak, Rus-sia's deputy finance minister, said Russia could offer Cuba a 38 million-euro ($43 mil-lion) loan to help fund its military moderniza-tion.In remarks apparently directed at the United States, Putin and Di-az-Canel criticized the use of unilateral sanc-tions as a destabilizing factor in global affairs.The U.S. econom-ic embargo, initially

imposed in 1958 and subsequently expanded, has remained in place. Russia, in its turn, faced an array of crippling U.S. and EU sanctions over the annexation of Crimea and its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine.Putin said he and Diaz-Canel discussed expanding economic ties, including Russia's participation in the modernization of Cuban railways.The Russian leader also mentioned Russian companies Rosneft and Zarubezhneft tapping for oil off Cuba and a contract for the Inter RAO energy company to build new generator units at a Cuban power plant.

NEWS

Caribbean Com-munity (CARICOM) countries joined the majority of the in-ternational commu-nity on Thursday in calling on the United States to end its de-cades’ old trade and economic embargo against Cuba.

The United Na-tions General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution, piloted by Havana, calling for an end to the embargo that Washington imposed on the Communist Caribbean country ever since the late Fidel Cas-tro in 1958 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista

regime.The UNGA by an

overwhelming major-ity rejected moves by Washington to criticise Cuba’s human rights re-cord, making it the 27th time that the 193-nation assembly has issued the call to lift the embargo imposed in 1962.

Israel joined the United States in voting against the resolution that was presented by Cuba. Ukraine and Moldova did not vote on the resolution that was approved by a 189 to two margin with no abstentions.

Last year, the resolution calling for an

end to the embargo was adopted by a vote of 191 to two.

Washington also failed to get support for eight amendments criticizing Cuba’s

human rights record with the Donald Trump administration pointing to Havana’s repression of political opponents and curbs of freedom of expression as a reason

for maintaining the economic embargo.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Ro-driguez described the Trump administration as a “government of millionaires that impos-es cruel policies”, citing Washington’s treatment of migrant children separated at the bor-der with Mexico and “locked in cages.

“The US govern-ment does not have the least moral authority for criticizing Cuba or anyone else with re-gards to human rights,” he said, telling the UNGA that the embargo was a “flagrant, massive

and systematic viola-tion” of human rights in Cuba.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed the vote on the US embargo as a “waste of everyone’s time” saying it does not address Cuba’s human rights situation.

“It’s one more time that countries feel they can poke the United States in the eye,” Haley said of the vote. But you’re not hurting the US when you do this. You are literally hurting the Cuban people by telling the regime that their treatment of their people is acceptable.”

UN calls again for removal of embargo against Cuba

Russia and Cuba vow to expand ‘strategic’ ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018


A reader of my column who is a Canadian citizen

and was convicted of robbery in 2015, has asked whether he can sponsor a foreign na-tional whom he recently married, for permanent residence in Canada.

The man who asked the question, said he had served one month imprisonment for the robbery offence.

Is he now eligible to sponsor his wife?

As I have mentioned before, the information provided in this column should not be interpret-ed as legal advice. Per-sons who are in a similar situation are asked to seek independent legal advice before proceed-ing with an application.

The Canadian laws with respect to crimi-nality and sponsorship were amended and came into force years ago. The amended laws do not allow a person to sponsor a member of the family class, if that person has been con-victed of certain offences such as:

• Having been convicted of an indict-able offence involving the use of violence pun-ishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 10 years or an

attempt to commit such an offence is barred from sponsorship.

• Having been convicted of an offence that results in bodily harm, as defined in section 2 of the Crimi-nal Code, to any of the following persons or an attempt or a threat to commit such an offence against any of the fol-lowing persons is barred from sponsorship:

a. a current or former family member of the sponsor,

b. a relative of the sponsor, as well as a current or former family member of that relative,

c. a relative of the family member of the sponsor, or a current or former family member of that relative,

d. a current or former conjugal partner of the sponsor,

e. a current or former family member of a family member or conjugal partner of the sponsor,

f. a relative of the conjugal partner of the sponsor, or a current or former family member of that relative,

g. a child under the current or former care and control of the sponsor, their current or former family member or conjugal partner,

h. a child under the current or former care and control of a relative of the sponsor or a current or former family member of that relative, or

i. someone the sponsor is dating or has dated whether or not they have lived together, or a family member of that person.

The amendment allows sponsorships to proceed when the conviction occurred in Canada and the indi-vidual has received a pardon, or has been acquitted or where five years has elapsed since the completion of the imposed sentence.

The law also allows sponsorships to proceed when the conviction occurred outside of Canada and the individual has been acquitted, or where five years has elapsed since the completion of the imposed sentence and the sponsor has demon-strated that he or she is rehabilitated.

The applicable law also reads as follows:

A sponsorship application shall only be approved by an officer if, on the day on which the application was filed and from that day until the day a decision

is made with respect to the application, there is evidence that the sponsor has not been convicted under the Criminal Code of

• (i) an offence of a sexual nature, or an attempt or a threat to commit such an offence, against any person,

It appears that the reader who contacted me is ineligible to spon-sor his spouse. He was convicted of robbery, which is an indictable offence, and it was less than five years ago. A robbery conviction

under the Criminal Code is punishable by life imprisonment.

Once the applica-ble time has elapsed, or a Record Suspen-sion is granted, only then this reader will be eligible to sponsor his wife. While waiting, he must still prove that he maintained a genuine relationship with his spouse, to support his sponsorship application, and also explain the reasons for the delay in submitting the sponsor-ship application.

SUKHRAM RAMKISSOON is a

member of ICCRC and specializes in

Immigration Matters at No. 3089 Bathurst

Street, Suite 219A, Toronto, Ontario.

Phone 416 789 5756.

IMMIGRATION MATTERS

SUKHRAM Ramkissoon

Reader with robbery conviction ineligible to sponsor spouse

Monique Pascal receives scholarship from Westend Sports and Cultural Club in Mississauga at the club's recent annual

fundraising event. Pascal is accepted at Ryerson University in Toronto in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Performance Dance

program.(From left) –Club President Leon Johnson, Secretary Jean

Turner with Scholarship Award winner Monique Pascall, and Bianca Gabriel, a member of the club's scholarship committee.

Westend Sports and Cultural Club Award


ST. JOHN'S, An-tigua - The referendum seeking the permission of the electorate to move to the Caribbe-an Court of Justice as Antigua and Barbuda’s final appellate court, fell short of the 67 per cent threshold required.

On Tuesday, the majority of those who turned out to vote said “NO” to the govern-ment’s request, through a referendum, which, if successful, would have seen an end to the use of the current apex court, the Lon-don-based Judicial Committee of the Privy

Council.Out of the 52, 999

registered electors in Antigua and Barbuda, 17,743 voted yesterday, with 9,234 rejecting the proposal to switch courts and 8,509 voters

giving approval of the Bill that would have allowed a constitu-tional change which is required to make the move to the Trini-dad-based CCJ.

The numbers rep-

resent 52.04 per cent against a move from the Privy Council and 47.96 per cent saying yes to a move from it. In order to succeed with the referendum to adopt the CCJ, a two thirds majority of the turnout had to say yes.

Several proponents of the change were left dejected, including Prime Minister Gas-ton Browne, after the Supervisor of Elections, Lorna Simon an-nounced the result.

Over the weekend, Prime Minister Gaston Browne, who is the first leader in Antigua and

Barbuda to take the country to a referen-dum, expressed con-fidence that the move he desired, would have

been made.He said he felt he

had enough “patriots” on his side.

NEWS

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – Prime Min-ister Dr Keith Mitchell has expressed concern about the growing num-ber of cases involving sexual-related offences, particularly against minors.

Mitchell, who was responding to reports that a member of the police force was sent on leave pending the outcome an investiga-tion into allegations of sexual misconduct, also said he was extremely disturbed when cops are implicated.

“I have a problem with people who will

interfere with vulnera-ble people and people under age, The laws are strictly against this in a general sense. To me one has to have a weak-ness of the mind….”

According to reports, a senior cop was charged for sexual misconduct involving an adult female.

That matter is be-fore the court.

“I cannot tell people how to behave in their social life, that is for them and their God but certainly I believe we all have a responsibility to protect our children and those around us,

and no one should be able to force themselves on anyone, so I have a problem with rape in any form, whether is a big person or a little one, I have a problem

with people using their positions to impose themselves and their will on someone unwill-ingly,” he said.

Confirming that he has had conversations

with persons closest to him about indulging themselves in activities that are legally prohib-ited, he said: “I always caution the men in my cabinet and my team that they have a respon-sibility to protect the children of the country. We are elected as rep-resentatives to protect them, not to use them, and I take that very seriously. I am no pas-tor, I am not a perfect person, but I certainly have some fundamental rules that I stick with and believe in,” he told reporters during the weekly post-cabinet

briefing on Wednesday.Without referring

to any specific project, Mitchell, who is also the Minister for National Security said, “I sup-port very strongly any initiatives to deal with those problems that will reduce it and cut it off completely, unfor-tunately, we do have some problems that we have to continue to confront.”

The police recent-ly launched a special victim’s unit to focus on matters pertaining to domestic violence and sexually-related crimes.

Grenada Prime Minister concerned over increase in sex offences

Dr. Keith Mitchell

sen said newcomers are being wrongly blamed for a long-standing affordable housing shortage that existed before the current wave of border-crossers.

"To suggest that asylum seekers have contributed to a crisis with our shelter system I think is really mislead-ing, it's very dangerous

and it doesn't withstand scrutiny," he said.

The federal govern-ment has given Toronto $11 million to defray the costs of resettling asylum seekers, part of a $50 million package for Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba — the prov-inces most affected by those entering Canada outside official border points.

from PAGE 2

Trudeau government launches pro-immigration campaign

Majority of voters in Antigua and Barbuda say no

Gaston Browne


Jamaica is one of three countries selected from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to benefit from a US$6 million regional climate change resil-ience project.

It is proposed that the project, dubbed ‘Building climate resilience of urban sys-tems through Ecosys-tem-based Adaptation (EbA) in LAC’, will be piloted in the Kingston Metropolitan Area.

Expected to last 24 months, the project is to be executed in Jamaica by the Ministry of Wa-ter, Land, Environment and Climate Change, with financing from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Special Climate Change Fund.

Implementation of the project is also being supported by the United Nations Environment Programme – Regional Office for Latin Amer-ica and the Caribbean (ROLAC).

The objective of the project is to increase the climate change resilience of vulnerable urban communities in three medium-sized LAC cities in Jamaica, Mexico and El Salvador, through the application of EbA and its integra-tion into medium-and long-term urban plan-ning.

In Jamaica, it is anticipated that the

project will respond to the limitations high-lighted in the country’s urban sector by devel-oping new policies or adapting to existing/new strategies that will promote the concept of a Climate Smart Urban Area. It is also expect-ed to bring the use of innovative participatory methodologies for inte-grating climate change into urban systems.

A national work-shop on the project was staged last weekend to provide relevant information as well as garner the input and recommendations of key stakeholders.

Addressing the opening of the workshop, in Kingston, Portfolio Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, welcomed the project, stressing that the issue of climate change must become a key factor in the future development plans for the country, particularly urban areas.

“(We) must begin to think and plan in concrete ways in order to integrate climate considerations in all relevant plans and proj-ects, to deal with rising

temperatures, rising seas, deadlier disasters, and changing economic circumstances,” he said.

The Minister noted that as the region and world become increas-ingly urbanised, cities

are becoming the epi-centres of many devel-opmental challenges, including the challenge of building climate resilience.

“This presents new challenges and opportu-

nities to city planners, environmental plan-ners, the construction sector and to civil society. These are very practical matters – where to build, how to build, and the role that ecosystem services can play – in order to devel-op and prosper within the new climate reality,” he said.

In addressing these practical issues, the Minister stressed that climate change must

move beyond mere awareness, but rather, “we must think cre-atively, constructively and very concretely about the future of our urban areas within a changed and changing climate.”

The findings of the pilots in the three countries will be used to develop local, national and regional approach-es to up-scaling adapta-tion through ecosystem restoration.

NEWS

Jamaica to benefit from climate change resilience project


LAS VEGAS — Af-ter living in the United States of America for 52 years, Jamaican born 84-year-old nurse, Murlin Hampton, was determined to independently use her stroller to get to Clark County in Nevada, to cast her vote during the 2018 Midterm Elections on November 6.

“It is my right to vote, and I need to select the candidate of my choice... I'm a medical person… and I'm still working,” Hampton said, adding that that her vote is very important to the future of the country in which she lives.

She was speaking

to JIS News, which is visiting sections of the US as part of the Foreign Press Centres' International Reporting Tour for the elections.

Hampton empha-sised that she wants to play her part in en-suring that the United States has good lead-ers, so that the future generation can have a better life.

“I hope they'll change some things for

the better, so that's why I came out [to vote],” she said.

She said that she has been voting in the US for decades and will do so as long as her ability permits her to.

“I've seen all the changes that have taken place. I've seen how people vote and I've seen how they've not voted,” she said.

Another voter at Clark County, Julie

McCrary, expressed similar sentiments as Hampton.

“Why did I vote? [I voted] because I'm an American… If you don't vote; then don't say nothing about it,” she said.

Meanwhile, Di-ondrea Hysaw said that as a young American, she believes their voices need to be heard, and for that to happen, the American youth have to vote.

“I was not going to miss it… . Everyone should express their voice, and I particularly wanted my voice to be heard today, and that's why I came to vote,” Hysaw said.

The results from the midterm elections show that the Democrats won the House of Repre-sentatives, while the Republicans retained control of the Senate.

The US Foreign Press Centres' Interna-tional Reporting Tour is taking place between November 1 and 8, and includes 25 journalists from different geo-graphic regions around the world, including Jamaica.

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Canadian entre-preneurs, including several from the Caribbean diaspora, will join business leaders and their sup-porters next week as they celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week 2018.

The Global Entrepre-neurship Network (GEN) will lead 170 countries, including Canada, in celebrating the event.

The four official themes for this year’s celebration are women, youth, inclusion and

ecosystem connect. The GEW focus on

women is intended to celebrate women who “create jobs and to recog-nize them as a potential catalyst for large-scale economic growth”.

For youths the objective is to enable and increase their desire to create their own jobs given, increasing rates of graduate unemployment; and in so doing empower them to “leverage their freedom”.

Inclusion focuses on driving the change

that will ensure “race, age, gender, or where an individual lives” does not serve as “obstacles” to becoming entrepreneurs.

Through the eco-system connect, GEN uses the GEW 2018 to challenge organizations who support entrepre-neurs world-wide to collaborate and partner for building “healthy and thriving “entrepreneurial communities outside of the “Silicon Valley”.

“We want to see more Canadians with Caribbean roots start

and grow businesses that become mainstream en-tities with an ethnic fla-vor in Canada and other diasporic markets,” said Meegan Scott of Magate Wildhorse Ltd.

“ And we look forward to seeing more collaboration, positive competition, co-creation and capacity building between Canadian and Caribbean businesses and academia,” Scott added.

“By applying the 4Cs of collaboration, competition, co-creation,

and capacity building, we will grow stronger busi-nesses, entrepreneurs and high impact entre-preneurial ecosystems (including support orga-nizations),” she noted.

GEW is celebrated in November of each year. This year November 12-18 has been declared as “Global Entrepre-neurship 2018” by GEN.

Sixty-four events and sixteen partners includ-ing Magate Wildhorse Ltd and the Caribbean Camera, and academic

institutions such as the George Brown College have registered official GEW Canada events.

This year Magate Wildhorse Ltd and The Caribbean Camera will focus on inclusive entre-preneurship and manip-ulating the ecosystem to deliver the ambitions of Canadian and entre-preneurs with Caribbean roots who sell profes-sional services

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ST GEORGE'S, Grenada — Prime Min-ister Dr Keith Mitchell said he was disappointed at the results of a refer-endum that would allow Grenada to join the Trin-idad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the island's final court.

Grenadians voted for a second time within a two year period, to reject efforts to replace the Lon-don-based Privy Council as the island's highest court.

In a national ref-erendum on Tuesday, the preliminary figures released by the Parlia-mentary Elections Office (PEO) show that the “No'

vote secured 12,133 as compared to 9,846 for those supporting the CCJ that was established in 2001.

Supervisor of Elec-tions, Alex Phillip, said

that 22,098 or 28 per cent of registered voters participated in the refer-endum. Off that number there were 119 rejected ballots, 9846 for the approval and 12133 voted against the approval. In terms of percentage, he explained that 45.05 per cent was for the change and 54.39 per cent against the change.

The CCJ also func-tions as an international tribunal interpreting the Revised Treaty of Cha-guaramas that governs the regional integration movement, CARICOM.

“The people have voted based on what they wished to see. As

a serious Democrat it (result) has been accept-ed. I am not happy with it but that has always been my position when results of elections are given,” Mitchell said.

“I am disappointed but I am in total accep-tance of the results,” he added.

After casting his ballot on Tuesday, an optimistic Mitchell had said he was confident of receiving the necessary two-thirds majority of the votes cast in getting Grenada to join Barba-dos, Belize, Dominica and Guyana as the CARICOM countries that are full members of the CCJ.

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Canada to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week


According to Dia-betes Canada, to-day, one in three

Canadians have diabetes or pre-diabetes.

And Black adult Canadians are more than twice as likely as white adult Canadians to de-velop type 2 diabetes.

Why do Black people experience higher levels of diabetes? And what are they going to do about it? Is it time for a diabetes strategy for Black Canadians?

To address the first question one must understand that the root cause, expression, im-pact and burden of any disease or illness, such as diabetes, in a specific population is influenced by both systemic, soci-etal factors and unique, cultural factors.

For Black Canadi-ans, the most dominant systemic social factors are poverty and racism. Black people represent 2.9 per cent of the over-all Canadian population but 18 per cent of them are living in pover-ty (Statistics Canada 2009).

Poverty has many direct impacts, including access to decent housing, food security, post-sec-ondary education, recre-ational endeavours, and in many cases, medical services.

In a 2017 study published in Social Science Medicine, researchers looking at associations between race, discrimination and risk for chronic disease in a population-based sample from Canada, found Blacks were most likely to experience discrimination. Re-searchers concluded that in Canada, experience of discrimination is a determinant of chron-ic disease and chronic disease risk factor and Blacks and Aboriginals are far more exposed to experiences of discrimi-nation.

A growing body of Canadian and interna-tional research confirms the assertion of Dr. Camara Jones, president of the American Public Health Association, that when it comes to achiev-ing racial health equity, tackling poverty is just one piece of the puzzle. Attention must also be

given to the social deter-minants of equity, such as racism.

Sally Asante, a nurse educator with the Diabe-tes Education Program (DEP) at the TAIBU Community Health Cen-tre in Toronto, points out that the health care system in Canada, including diabetes man-agement and education, often has a Eurocentric focus, which dismisses the cultural values, tradi-tions and beliefs among the Black population. So clients in the DEP are relieved to know that they can continue to eat their staple foods and still maintain their health.

Asante notes that people with diabetes should be encouraged to choose foods that they are familiar with and enjoy, thus increasing the likelihood of last-ing self-management behaviour outcomes. “You can have your rice and peas but limit each portion to one quarter of your plate, and you can try swapping white rice for brown rice,” she adds.

Discussions sur-rounding exercise should highlight many popular activities in the Carib-bean community (which may not be seen as “conventional” exercise). These include soca or reggae dancing, playing cricket, church activities, or evening walks.

Asante also points out that conventional medications and "natural remedies" can work in harmony as long as safe-ty is at the forefront and conversations should be centred on the Afro-Ca-ribbean value of herbal medicines by openly discussing their efficacy in blood glucose control in addition to caution-ing about possible drug interactions and safety considerations. She notes that herbal rem-edies such as moringa, bush tea, and sorrel are all natural blood glucose altering agents but that these remedies are hard-ly discussed in diabetes education settings.

She explains that when a health care provider openly discuss-es and acknowledges specific cultural values with clients, their confi-dence in the health care provider is affirmed and the likelihood of diabetes management compliance is increased.

Kathy Nelson, a registered nurse who founded the Caribbe-an Chapter of Diabetes Canada in 2002, had for years witnessed the toll diabetes was taking on

the Black community. And so creating

awareness of the preva-lence of diabetes in Black communities became the main focus of the Carib-bean Diabetes Chapter. The challenge of the Chapter, however, was how to get the message to people who need it the most. Her approach is simple and effective: “Meet them where they are.”

Nelson says church-es serve as a natural gathering place in the Caribbean/African com-munity for information sharing and the Chapter partnered with churches organizing monthly pre-sentations from dieti-cians, endocrinologists, pharmacists and the like.

The social inter-actions, support and learning that develop naturally when commu-nity members have a cul-turally safe, non-judge-mental space to ask any question and to share their experiences is evi-dent when members say “We learn so much from each other”.

In keeping with the “meet them where they are” approach, Nelson conducts several

free diabetes screening clinics in malls in high risk neighborhoods. Often, these clinics identify community members with blood sugar readings that are “through the roof”. She said sometimes people don’t even know they have high blood sugar, or those who know, cannot afford the medication or supplies.

At these clinics, persons receive literature on diabetes prevention and some counselling on healthy eating, weight reduction, the benefit of physical activity and information to take to their doctor.

Clearly, there is a need for a comprehen-sive diabetes strategy for Black Canadians. The root causes are complex and mainstream status quo approaches are not working.

What can you do today? Recognize your health and well-being as a priority. If you or someone you know is living with diabetes or is at risk of developing dia-betes, take action. Come to the free blood sugar testing clinic at the Taibu Health Clinic on the November14, World Diabetes Day, speak to your doctor about dia-betes, and engage with organizations providing culturally competent health services. Page Content

(Dr. Christopher J. Morgan is the director of Morgan Chiropractic & Wellness, an interdis-ciplinary health centre in Toronto, He can be reached at 416-447-7600 or at [email protected])

FOCUS ON HEALTH

Managing diabetes in the Black communityBy Christopher J. Morgan

Free blood sugar testing clinic on World Diabetes Day

TAIBU Community Health Centre’s Diabetes Education Program (DEP) has announced that a free blood sugar testing clinic will be open at the Centre on November 14, World

Diabetes Day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The clinic will operate in conjunc-

tion with the Caribbean Chapter of Diabetes Canada For more informa-tion, call 416-644-3536.


THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — The West Indies produced their worst batting performance against India in a One-Day Interna-tional (ODI) to hand the home side an emphatic nine-wicket win and help them wrap up the five-match series 3-1 at Greenfield Stadium here on Friday/

In what was scheduled to be a day/night contest, India wrapped up the match well before dark after dismissing the Windies for 104 in 31.5 overs.

It was the visitors' lowest ever ODI score against India.

The home side, led by a brisk half-century from the in-form Rohit Sharma and an unbeaten knock of 33 from Captain Virat Kohli, motored to 105 for one in 14.5 overs to wrap up the contest even before the scheduled break.

The lone hiccup in the run chase came in the first over when Shikhar Dhawan lost his wicket, his inside edge crashing into middle stump off the bowling of Oshane Thomas to leave India six for one.

Thomas was unlucky not to have dismissed Kohli when he was just eight, as Captain Jason Holder put down a regulation catch at first slip.

The Indian captain then showed his appreciation for the lifeline off the very next ball by thumping Thomas through cover for four.

Luck wasn't on Thomas' side as the burly fast bowler also had Sharma caught behind off a no-ball.

After that, Sharma adapted a no-nonsense mood driving Thomas back over his head for six and then

pulling Holder's first ball of the 11th over to the boundary to bring up

the 50-run partnership. He followed that up by lifting him over midwicket for six — his 200th in ODIs — off the next ball as they rushed to 62-1.

Keemo Paul, too, was dispatched for consecutive boundaries by Shar-ma, who eventually brought up his 50 off 52 balls to record his 37th ODI half-century.

Sharma was on the rampage now and he belted Davendra Bishoo for six over long off, before Kohli joined in by cutting the leg-spinner behind point for four as the score moved to 103 for one.

Sharma then fittingly ended the match with a single to long on two balls later.

However, the outcome had vir-tually been decided long before then, thanks mainly to another inept show-ing with the bat by the West Indies and a four-wicket haul from spinner Ravindra Jadeja.

While only three Windies' bats-men managed to score in double fig-

ures, Jadeja accounted for key dismissals in the middle and

lower orders to ensure the visitors would not recover from their horrific start.

The visitors never recovered from the early losses of Kieran Powell (0) and Shai Hope (0) which saw them slump to 2-2.

Powell's loose drive off a wide delivery from Bhuvneshwar Kumar ended in the gloves of wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, while Hope was bowled after he played on at-tempting an expansive cover drive off Jasprit Bumrah.

A brief 34-run stand between Rovman Powell and Marlon Sam-uels had looked set to put the Win-dies back on track before Samuels chipped Jadeja to cover to give Virat Kohli the easiest of catches.

Shimron Hetmyer only scored nine before he became Jadeja's second wicket, adjudged leg before wicket after a review, and Powell fol-lowed four runs later, pulling Khaleel Ahmed's short ball straight into the hands of square leg as the Windies fell to 57 for five.

Captain Holder tried his best to revive his team's innings, but once he fell for the top score of 25, his mis-timed drive off Ahmed only making it as far as mid-off, the writing was on the wall.

The wickets of Keemo Paul (5), Kemar Roach (5) and Oshane Thom-as for a duck followed soon after, as the Windies folded meekly.

Jadeja was the pick of the bowl-ers, ending with 4-34, while there were two wickets apiece for Bumrah (2-11) and Ahmed (2-29).

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India win ODI series against Windies

Indian players celebrate after taking another West Indies wicket


Barbadian jock-ey Patrick Husbands has been ruled out of the remainder of the Woodbine season and is set to undergo two sur-

geries, after being thrown from his mount ahead of the fifth race at the To-ronto racing oval on Sunday.

The seven-time

Woodbine champion was unseated by three-year-old filly Islay Inlet in the parade ring, suf-fering a broken pelvis during the fall.

Husbands is one

of the most successful jockeys in the history of Woodbine, with 3 285 victories and nearly CAN$160 million in winnings.

A Trinidad-To-bago racing team now

have the world’s fastest four-cylinder car with an SR 20 engine.

Team Tekno Toys based out of Orlando,Florida beat 48 other teams in the Radial vs Modi-fied class races at the Hal Tec World Cup Finals, on Sunday, at the Maryland International Race-way. The team set a track record with their four-cylinder,

2005 Team Tekno Toys broke the world record of 6.26, with a time of 6.22 – a difference of .04 seconds.

“In racing that (time) is an entire lifetime,” team member Christian Ramnarine said.

Trinidad-Tobago car racing team outrun record in 6.22 seconds

Barbadian jockey set for surgery after Woodbine spill

SPORT

Patrick Husbands

Trinidad and Tobago racer Muhammad Ali for Team Tekno Toys

stands with Hal Tec World Cup trophy last Sunday. Ali and Team

Tekno Toys took pole position at the cup in their world record breaking

2005 Nissan Sylvia. Team Tekno Toys.


SPORT

ST GEORGE’S, Gre-nada —Boats from many countries will be competing in the 2018 Royal Racing Ocean Club's Transatlantic Race, which sets off from Mari-na Lanzarote, Arrecife, on Saturday November 24. The 3,000 nautical mile-long race to Grenada is the final challenge in the Club’s 2018 calendar.

Franco Niggeler’s Swiss Cookson 50 Kuka 3 is one of the favourites for the overall win decided by yachts racing under the IRC Rating Rule for the Club's Transatlantic Race Trophy.

Kuka 3 has a highly ex-perienced crew, including Italian navigator Andrea Caracci (11 Mini-Transats) and Spanish Watch Cap-tain Gonzalo Araujo (Volvo Ocean Race and TP52). Kuka 3 will be skippered

by Spain’s Roberto ‘Chuny’ Bermudez de Castro who has raced 500,000 nautical miles, including seven round the

world races, winning the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing.

International fleet set for Transatlantic Race to Grenada

Franco Niggeler’s Swiss Cookson 50 Kuka 3 will include a highly experienced offshore

race team from Spain and Italy.

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