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Wed. November 19, 2014
Volume 32; Number 49
On Pride’s cover: When art speaks, society listens.
That is the mission when spoken word artist, published
writer, and small business owner, Lamoi, of Our Love is
Reckless (OLIR), brings the art-form of soulful poetry to the
city of Brampton with the spoken word show, Raw. Poetry.
Soul: The Queens’ Edition.
With a powerful line-up of
local female poets—Lamoi,
Alyestal Hamilton, Juanita Stephen and Breanna Chanelle—
accompanied by emerging
vocalist Dijah Janeé, and the
well sought after DJ Afroditee,
this event promises to do what
art does best: inspire, move and
create change.
Not only does the Lamoi
believe in art, she also believes
in raising awareness and much
needed dollars for various causes. Tickets are $10 in
advance and $15 at the door, and are available by calling
647-881-0564. See page 10 for more on the poets and
the show. Cover photo by Ardean Peters.
WORDS OF WISDOM
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head
were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth
power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and
blooded with emotions, all held together by the
delicate, tough skin of words.” – Paul Engle
“Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the
steadfast possession of definition.” – Eli Khamarov
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PRIDE’S MISSION STATEMENT:
To act as a catalyst for the advancement,
empowerment and happiness of peoples of
African and Caribbean heritage.
By Lawrence Otis Graham
Guest Writer
I knew the day would come, but I didn’t know
how it would happen, where I would be, or how I
would respond. It is the moment that every black
parent fears: the day their child is called a nigger.
My wife and I, both African Americans, constitute one of those Type A couples with Ivy League
undergraduate and graduate degrees who, for many
years, believed that if we worked hard and maintained great jobs, we could insulate our children
from the blatant manifestations of bigotry that we
experienced as children in the 1960s and ’70s.
We divided our lives between a house in a liberal New York suburb and an apartment on Park
Avenue, sent our three kids to a diverse New York
City private school, and outfitted them with the
accoutrements of success: preppy clothes, perfect
diction and that air of quiet graciousness.
We convinced ourselves that the economic
privilege we bestowed on them could buffer these
adolescents against what so many black and
Latino children face while living in mostly white
settings: being profiled by neighbors, followed in
stores and stopped by police simply because their
race makes them suspect.
But it happened nevertheless in July, when I
was 100 miles away.
It was a Tuesday afternoon when my 15-year-old
son called from his academic summer program at
a leafy New England boarding school and told me
that as he was walking across campus, a gray Acura
with a broken rear taillight pulled up beside him.
Two men leaned out of the car and glared at him.
“Are you the only nigger at Mellon Academy?”
one shouted. Certain that he had not heard them
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Wednesday, November 1 9, 20 1 4
Black History-makers’ Legacy
Engraved On Benches
By Neil Armstrong
Pride Contributing Writer
TORONTO, Ontario – Several
members of the African Canadian
community now have their names inscribed on benches in Ontario Square
at the Harbourfront Centre, the heart
Performing Arts.
The Harbourfront Centre is offering a limited number of benches in
Ontario Square, an open public space,
for permanent name recognition at a
cost of $3,500 per bench.
“This is the perfect way to recognize family members, community
it expresses a certain confidence that
things will improve for us.”
Clarke said black people have been
saying this since the 60s during the
civil rights movement and marches.
“I find myself at my age trying to
rethink my thoughts on my arrival
many years ago in this country and
Sitting on the newly-unveiled benches in Ontario Square, Harboufront Centre are, left-right: Vernon Eccles (representing Ayanna
Black), Margaret Gittens (representing Charles & Hetty Roach), Earl La Pierre Jr. of Afropan Steelband, Pamela Appelt, Sandra
Whiting, Austin Clarke, George Randolph, Althea Prince, Rita Cox, Kamala-Jean Gopie. Zanana Akande, not seen in the photo, is
sitting beside Gopie. Photo by Neil Armstrong.
of Toronto’s waterfront that has undergone a major transformation.
Organized by A Different Booklist, a local bookstore, in partnership with the Harbourfront Centre,
twelve benches bearing the names of
African Canadians were unveiled on
November 10 to honor them for their
contributions to African-Canadian
History in their various fields.
Gathered with their families,
friends, colleagues and staff of the
Harbourfront Centre, including its
new chief executive officer, Marah
Braye, those honoured have either
served on the centre’s board of governors, worked or performed there,
donated to its legacy or supported
its diverse programs.
The honorees are the late Charles
and Hetty Roach, Caribana pioneers
1967; Sandra Whiting, cultural
animator and community arts programmer; Austin Clarke, author and
African Canadian literary pioneer;
the late Ayanna Black, poet and advocate; Afropan, Canadian steelpan
pioneers; Salome Bey, queen of jazz
& blues and Howard Matthews, cultural pioneer; Rita Cox, patron of the
arts; Kamala-Jean Gopie, patron of
the arts; Pamela Appelt, patron of the
arts; and Althea Prince, author and
African Canadian literary pioneer;
Zanana Akande, educator, leader
and friend to many communities; and
George Curtis Randolph Jr., founder
of the Randolph Academy for the
leaders, businesses and groups who
have made a difference through a
charitable gift,” notes its “Celebrate
the Legacy” brochure.
Braye said the initiative coincided
with the opening of the squares –
Canada Square and Ontario Square.
She said Allan Penning, senior
development officer at the Harbourfront Centre, worked closely with the
community to name the benches,
which is in honour of people -- some
who passed on and some who are still
involved with the community -- to pay
tribute to all the active work that they
have done for the community and for
the Harbourfront Centre.
Celebrated author, Austin Clarke,
a Giller and Commonwealth Prize winner for his 2002 novel The Polished
Hoe, said he was pleased at the recognition of his small contribution to
literature in Canada and an aspect
of the development of consciousness
among black people promoting the
work of black people.
He noted that his contribution
to the arts is minimal compared to
that of Jan Carew, Sam Selvon and
Charley Roach.
Speaking about the arts, he said
it liberates people from the depressing circumstance or competition of
racism in this country.
“It explains, even though it is not
recognized, our culture. It explains
our intelligence, it explains our abiding with the rules of this country and
specifically in this city. And I see
progress but yet again I don’t see
any progress because we are basically fighting for the same things we
thought we were fighting for during
the age of Malcolm X and even Martin
Luther King who was more Gandhian
than vociferously anti-white but
there is hope. I’m not in a position to
judge whether we are better off today
than we were in the 60s. I regret, of
course, that the consciousness is
not as widely proclaimed whether in
marches, literature or in songs as we
would have liked and as it was hoped.
Clarke said his memoirs, after living in Canada for almost 60 years, will
be coming out in July 2015.
Now at the age of 80, he is still
working 10 hours daily and going
to bed at 3 a.m. The octogenarian
is also venturing on the writing of
poetry as well.
Born in St James, Barbados on
July 26, 1934, Clarke arrived in
Canada in 1955 to study at the University of Toronto.
In 2012, the Order of Canada
recipient received the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize at the International Festival of Authors for on his
published work and his contributions
to fostering the next generation of
literary talent.
The bench was dedicated by the
government of Barbados for Clarke’s
legacy as an African Canadian literary pioneer.
Dr. Vidhya Gyan Tota-Maharaj,
consul general for Trinidad and Tobago, lauded the honorees for their
achievements and congratulated
Afropan Steelband, in particular, for
its longevity.
The steelband was founded in
1973 by Earl La Pierre Sr., has won
many awards, and pioneered the introduction of steelpan music classes
in schools of the Toronto District
School Board (TDSB).
Last year, the City of Toronto
named the group’s panyard, “Afropark.” The park is located at the
southern end of Jefferson Ave. off of
King St., just east of Dufferin St. bordering the Allan A. Lamport Stadium,
venue of the King and Queen Competition during carnival in the city.
The bench was sponsored by the
consulate of Trinidad and Tobago,
which saluted Afropan Steelband as
Canadian steelpan pioneers.
Vernon Eccles, bench captain,
spoke of the work of the late Ayanna
Black in promoting Black and Caribbean culture in Toronto. Black was
a founding member and president of
Canadian Artists’ Network: Black Arts
in Action, which produced in 1992,
Celafi: Celebrating African Identity,
a groundbreaking series of international conferences.
She collaborated with Zanana
Akande, Gloria Fallick and Ann
Wallace to establish Tiger Lily, a
literary magazine devoted to women
of colour. She was also a member
the Harbourfront Corporation and
served as president of the Women’s
Art Resource Centre.
In July 2009, she died at the age of
70 in Toronto after a lengthy struggle
with cancer.
Rita Cox remembered that the site
of Ontario Square was where Black,
poet, author, anthologist and curator,
held the first Celafi festival.
Cox, a veteran storyteller, librarian
and cultural arts supporter, sat on
the Harbourfront’s board and founded
the festival, Cumbayah, a festival of
Black heritage and storytelling, which
was held there.
“I’m very grateful, especially to
Harbourfront and to my community,
because when you’re honoured by
your community, it is the greatest
honour of all. I’ve been involved in
Harboufront since it stopped being a
corporation. I’ve been on the board for
many years and I watch Harbourfront
grow from a place that didn’t represent
me to a place where we belong now.
And, to have our people honoured and
their legacy on this property here, this
arts centre, is the greatest honour of
all,” said a beaming Cox.
Sandra Whiting, who worked at the
Harbourfront for 23 years, said the
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Guyana-born CLC President
Wants Feds To Expand CPP
Wednesday, November 1 9, 20 1 4
By Neil Armstrong
Pride Contributing Writer
TORONTO, Ontario – The Canadian Labour
Congress is calling on the federal government to
double Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) benefits and
intends to make it an election issue if the government does not make the change.
Last Wednesday, CLC president, Hassan Yussuff, hosted the first of a series of public town hall
meetings on retirement security to be held across
the country, at the United Steelworkers Hall in
Toronto. Most of the meetings will take place between now and the end of December with a few
to be held in 2015.
The CLC is partnering with retirees and seniors’
groups across the country to raise awareness about
Canada’s retirement crisis.
Born in Guyana, Yussuff was elected the first
racialized president of the national voice of the
labour movement in May this year, which represents 3.3 million Canadian workers.
Among those who participated in the meeting
were: John Cartwright, Toronto and York Region
Labour Council; Betty Ann Bushell, Congress of
Union Retirees of Canada; Sheila Block, Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives; Helen Liu, Ontario
Chinese Seniors Association; and Chris Roberts,
Canadian Labour Congress.
Yussuff said there is a twofold reason for the
crisis. One is that the coverage for private pension
is not increasing in the country and has slowly but
consistently been diminished.
The second is that Canadians, on their own, are
not saving adequately to ensure that when they
get to retirement they will have a decent amount
of money put aside to take care of them when they
get to their senior age.
The CLC president said the doubling of the CPP
is the only viable way to address the situation for
several reasons.
“Everybody that works in this country currently
belongs to CPP or QPP [Quebec Pension Plan].
As a matter of fact, I think it’s about 92% of the
population that belong to the CPP that works in
the country.”
Both employers and workers have to contribute
to it equally in regards to their contributions.
Yussuff said the CPP has some incredibly good
features such as being portable, no matter where
people work, they continue to carry forward their
contributions and their benefits, regardless of
which employer they work with and how many
times they may change employer before they get
to retirement.
“Secondly, of course the CPP is indexed to inflation so the value of your CPP or QPP contribution
when you retire, your benefits will never be decreased. It will continue to be improved, if inflation
should increase you’re not going to lose value.”
Describing it as a Pan-Canadian pension plan,
he said regardless of where one lives in the coun-
Guyana-born Canadian Labour Congress President,
Hassan Yussuff, at meeting. Photo courtesy of CLC.
try or where a person may choose to retire in the
country upon retirement, their benefits will be
there for them.
“It’s a low-cost plan, in terms of what you
get. It’s relatively cheap if you compare that to
other private plans, or even for that matter, what
contributing through your RRSP can give you, in
terms of benefit.”
The CLC president said the only problem with
the CPP is that when it was established the benefit
level was set too low.
It’s 25% of the average wage which means if a
person paid in at a maximum contribution level
for their entire working career, they would get
anywhere between $1000 and $1100 a month.
The average CPP payout is much lower than
that, he said, noting that in Toronto the average
benefit is $571 per month, which is not adequate
for living in the city.
In today’s dollars, doubling the CPP benefit
would mean a maximum benefit of about $2,075
a month.
“For that reason, we recognize that given when it
was established, it was set at very low benefit levels,
we’ve got to do something significantly, recognizing there’s 11 million Canadians in the country
who only have the CPP as their only pension in
the country. They have no other private pension.”
Yussuff said studies done by several organizations have indicated that if something is not done
in a major way, there will be a significant problem
for many Canadians when they get to retirement
and have a lower standard of living.
This will also put enormous pressures on provincial governments and other governments to look
after these workers who haven’t saved adequately
for their retirement, he said.
The CLC president said the congress has been
conducting its campaign now for five years and in
the first two years it had to convince the government that it is a problem and get them to engage.
A majority of the provinces and the federal
government agreed at a meeting in 2010 in Crowbush Golf and Beach Resort in Lakeside, Prince
Edward Island, that a modest increase to the CPP
was needed and necessary.
“Between the summer meeting and the December meeting when they did meet, the federal
government said now is not the time. I think for
the federal government and the prime minister,
this is an ideological response to the problem.
Basically, he doesn’t believe in it; he believes that
at the end of the day the government shouldn’t
get involved in whether people are saving or not
saving for their retirement,” Yussuff said, noting
that eight provinces are saying this is the right
direction to go.
In addition, Yussuff said the government is also
rolling back by two years when workers in this
country can collect both Old Age Security (OAS)
and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) so they
have to work now until they are 67, which he said
will put further challenges on workers when they
retire, if they choose to do so at 65.
He said for those two years, right now workers
get an average of $6000 from OAS payment but
individually that money will not be there until a
worker turns 67.
“We also believe that’s a flawed decision by the
federal government because it makes no political
sense.”
He welcomes the decision by the Ontario
government to introduce a provincial retirement
pension plan.
“We have advocated that it should reflect the
same rules as the CPP, everybody is part of it, and
more importantly, they are required to contribute,
both themselves and their employer,” he said,
noting that proposal itself, on the surface, looks
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Black Canadian History-makers Honoured
unveiling of the benches was exciting
because during her time there she
really never sat down.
She intends to do so now quietly
on the bench and reflect on her years
at the centre.
“To me, this is the people’s place
and it was very important working
here to make sure that there was
inclusion of all communities because
you know in the 70s it wasn’t always
that way and so it has been a great
privilege to have worked here and to
have made a contribution to Toronto
and to this place,” she said.
Zanana Akande, a former president of the board, said it almost felt
surreal.
“It’s surprising. I’m very appreciative of it. I don’t necessarily see myself
as being one that should be remembered in that way but I’m pleased
and I’m grateful. It’s always nice to
be recognized by your community as
having contributed.”
Her three children attended the
dedication of the benches and she
intends to put her eight grandchildren on her bench and take a photo
of them.
Althea Prince came to Toronto from
Antigua in 1965 at the age of 20 and
is now 69.
“I’ve spent 49 years in this city.
This is my home. To have a permanent marker in my name is quite
fabulous,” she said.
Prince said it is quite special for
her because she grew up with the
Harbourfront as it was growing and
used to go there “from the weather
turned “niceish” we would be there
almost every weekend. There was
something when we came and if there
wasn’t something, we created it.”
Pamela Appelt, who currently sits
on the board of the Harboufront, said
it humbled her to see folks coming
together to recognize her but it goes
beyond that.
“It means that whatever we are
doing, people are taking note of it
and it is not just to benefit us but the
generations that come after us. This
is for perpetuity and I’m so happy to
have been a part of this. Harbourfront
has been my second home for the past
10 years and it is so pleasing that it
has embraced my community – the
Caribbean community – in such a
big way.
George Randolph said he was honoured to be in the presence of the other
honorees who have all dedicated their
entire lifetime to arts and culture.
“These opportunities that have
happened to me over my lifetime I
didn’t do it alone. We didn’t do it alone
at all. It’s all because of the people
before us. It’s because of our parents,
it’s because of family; it’s because of
our ancestors that have given us the
opportunity for us to do what we do
today. And, hopefully I can provide
the same inspiration for young people
that they can stand on my shoulders
and create something new and different and make an impact,” he said.
Kamala-Jean Gopie has lived
across from the Harbourfront Centre
since 1986 and was a member of its
board from 1982 to 1985.
“I’m very thrilled that this has
happened to me because I usually do
things on the QT [meaning quietly],”
she said, noting that she now has
two homes – at Ontario Square and
across the street.
“I think its wonderful but I think
the whole initiative is great because
it says that there are people in our
community who’ve made significant
contributions to this society.”
Margaret Gittens, sister of Hetty
Roach, and Dawn and Sunset, daughters of Hetty and Charles Roach,
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CLC President Wants
Feds To Expand CPP
good but the CLC has not seen the
details of it.
He said once the Ontario government hold public hearings with
Ontarians across the province on
it, then the CLC will make its views
known publicly.
With a federal election due in 2015,
Yussuff hopes that the CPP expansion
will become an election issue and that
the two opposition parties, the NDP
and the Liberals, will support it.
He noted that the NDP has said
they support an expanded CPP but
the Liberals have said they support
some expansion but have not been
specific what that means.
“If the government doesn’t do it
before the election, we certainly want
to make it an election issue. And,
we’re trying to get our members, of
course, to do everything possible to
lobby members of parliament, to push
them, to call them, to petition them,
to write to them, and everything that’s
necessary to try to get them onside
to try to do the right thing, hopefully
before the election.”
Asked about the precarious workforce – people who are working part
time, temporary, casual, contract –
Yussuff said they and younger people
in the economy would get the greatest
benefit with the expansion of the CPP.
He, however, acknowledged that
the best thing to do for these people
is for the economy to create full time
jobs that pay a decent wage so they
can make a decent living, not having
to work precariously.
Caribana pioneers and legendary
social justice champions, were in
attendance.
Charles was a founding member
and the first chair of Caribana, 1966;
musician and bandleader, 1955-71,
co-founder of the Black Action Defense Committee, 1988 and was a
civil rights lawyer and activist. Hetty
worked at her husband’s law firm,
managing its administration and
was involved in political work such
as Cuban solidarity, anti-apartheid
and peace campaigns.
Charles died from a malignant
brain tumour on October 2, 2012 in
Toronto, thirteen years after Hetty
passed away in 1999.
Salome Bey, who became known
as “Canada’s First Lady of Blues”
and “Queen of Jazz & Blues,” and
her husband, Howard Matthews, a
cultural pioneer, live in a nursing
home in Parkdale.
Bey has Alzheimer’s disease and
Matthews suffered a stroke two years
ago which resulted in a brain condition called aphasia.
Itah Sadu, co-owner of A Different
Booklist, said she hoped the benches
would inspire youth to research the
names of those honoured to find out
about the contribution they made
to culture and Black and Canadian
History.
She noted that the bookstore is
a place of big ideas and so the work
that she, her husband, Miguel San
Vicente and staff do come from the
exchange of ideas with customers and
books in the store.
In 2009, the bookstore was instrumental in having a bench outside
Bathurst subway station named in
honour of pioneers, Leonard and
Gwendolyn Johnston, now deceased,
owners of the legendary Third World
bookstore.
A Different Booklist was also
behind lobbying the Toronto Public
Library to name the Black Heritage
and West Indian Resource Collection
pioneer by Dr. Rita Cox in 1973, the
new Black and Caribbean Heritage
Collection in 1998.
It also organized by a symbolic
ferry ride to the Toronto Islands to
commemorate the bicentennial of
the abolition of the slave trade in
2008, the annual Freedom Train, in
partnership with the TTC from Union
to Downsview subway station, Patty
Day to remember the city’s ‘patty war’
and the annual Walk with Excellence
for schools in Toronto west.
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Former CARICOM And Commonwealth
Secretary General Launches Memoirs
WASHINGTON, DC CMC -- Former Secretary
General of the Commonwealth and the Caribbean
Community (CARICOM) Sir Shridath Ramphal
has launched his memoirs entitled, “Glimpse of
a Global Life” .
The launch was held at the Hall of Americas
at the Organization of American States (OAS) last
Friday at the 58th lecture series of the Americas.
In his presentation, Shridath Ramphal
said, «There is so much I could have written about,
so many others who shared my global journeys
that I should have written of. Alas, it would take
another book to do so; it must suffice to plead that
these are ‘glimpses’ only, and to hope that in their
own way they conjure up, especially for those who
shared them.”
According to Sir Shridath, a former Foreign Minister of Guyana, his book evokes the ambivalence
and the steps in the formation of the West Indies
Federation, its collapse, and the work of the West
Indian Commission in charting the course for the
region’s integral development.
The book also showed the role played by the
Commonwealth to help end the Unilateral Declara-
Sir Shridath Ramphal
tion of Independence of Southern Rhodesia, which
led to Zimbabwe’s independence, the assistance
provided to the struggle against apartheid and the
release of Nelson Mandela.
“The leadership that we exercised in the areas
of South Africa and the restructuring of global
economic relations, played an important role in
the perception that the international community
had on us,” said the former Secretary General of
the Commonwealth.
The Chancellor of the University of the West
Indies, George Alleyne, spoke about the major contributions made by Sir Shridath in the advancement
of freedom, independence and good governance.
“His roots are in Guyana, but his trunk is
Caribbean, and his branches spread all over the
world, there are testimonies of the values of those
branches wherever he sets foot or had given a
voice,” he said.
The book, continued Alleyne, must be appreciated “as a tapestry of the life and times of a remarkable individual,” whose figure reached its true
dimension as head of the Commonwealth.
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Japan And CARICOM Foreign
Ministers End Successful Meeting
By Peter Richards
CMC Caribbean Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan CMC – Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) foreign ministers held a one-day meeting here with their Japanese counterpart, Fumio
Kishida, welcoming Tokyo’s solidarity with the
region on many global issues.
A joint communiqué issued at the end of the
Fourth Japan-CARICOM Ministerial-Level Conference, noted that the ministers have also agreed
to “actively follow up the successful First JapanCARICOM Summit held in Trinidad and Tobago”
in July this year.
“The Foreign Ministers resolved to strengthen
the bond between Japan and CARICOM member
states, and to cooperate in various areas related
to three pillars, namely cooperation towards
sustainable development including overcoming
vulnerabilities particular to Small Island Developing States (SIDS); deepening and expanding
bonds founded on exchanges and friendship and
cooperation in addressing challenges confronting
the international community”.
Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister A.J. Nicholson speaking with the Caribbean Media Corporation CMC) after holding bi lateral talks with Kishida,
said Japan has turned out to be an “extremely true
and good friend of CARICOM”.
Kishida has reaffirmed Japan’s intention to
actively engage in international discussions concerning vulnerabilities particular to small island
developing states even as the CARICOM foreign
ministers expressed their concerns during the
bi-lateral as well as the full ministerial meeting
over the issue of graduation from concessionary
funding based on the narrow measurement of
gross domestic product (GDP).
The regional ministers sought to underline the
importance of expanding this measurement to
include a vulnerability index and Kishida noted
that Japan will give “utmost consideration to the
concerns of CARICOM”.
The communiqué noted that Japan has also
indicated, that it would continue to extend its cooperation towards overcoming such vulnerabilities,
particular to CARICOM member states utilising
Japanese technologies and expertise nurtured
through its similar experience in the fields of disaster risk reduction, countermeasures against environmental degradation, climate change, energy,
waste management and fisheries amongst others.
Nicholson said that Japan had developed expertise in disaster preparedness, given the country’s
own vulnerability to natural disasters,and as a
result, Jamaica and indeed the wider region, would
like to benefit from such expertise.
“Noting that Japan and CARICOM face common challenges pertaining to natural disasters,
the Foreign Ministers reaffirmed the importance
of mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in development planning and international cooperation
initiatives,” the communiqué noted.
The Caribbean foreign ministers also welcomed
the decision by Tokyo to start a field survey in the
area of renewable energy and energy efficiency,
which they described as “one of the key sectors
to overcome inherent vulnerabilities particular to
CARICOM member states”, given their dependence
on imported fossil fuels.
They also welcomed other ongoing projects and
field surveys to be conducted in priority areas for
the region and the Caribbean ministers “expressed
appreciation for Japan’s recognition of the importance of assisting their countries from perspectives
other than those based on per capita income, and
“expressed their expectation for close cooperation
in that regard”.
On the issue of the importance of assistance
through the Japan-CARICOM Friendship Fund,
which has been in existence since 2000, the
communiqué noted that the foreign ministers
had decided to continue cooperation by further
enhancing the effectiveness of the Fund, “mindful
of its flexible operation and possible synergy with
other assistance programmes”.
Regarding the need to reform the United Nations
Security Council (UNSC) “in a way that reflects
the geopolitical realities of the 21st Century,”
the meeting stressed the need for the UNSC to
increase its representativeness, effectiveness and
transparency”.
The ministers have also agreed to “strengthen
their collaboration with a view to converging their
positions to achieve concrete outcomes, during the
70th anniversary of the UN in 2015”.
They also reaffirmed their continuous cooperation for the achievement of the UN Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and shared
the common recognition that the Post-2015 Development Agenda should be, “based on the principle
of human security, an effective framework to address challenges including disaster risk reduction,
universal health coverage; gender equality and
women’s empowerment”.
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“Radical Political Thinker”
Hunter J. Francois Dies
CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC -- One of St Lucia’s
foremost politicians Hunter J Francois, passed
away Saturday after a prolonged period of illness.
Francois, who was 81, was a lawyer who evolved
into one of St.Lucia’s visionary Government Ministers and more radical political thinkers.
He first entered local politics in 1954, and after
successfully contesting elections in 1964 under
the administration of John Compton, he was appointed Minister of Education, Health and Social
Services a position he held until 1974.
It was during that period he conceived of the
establishment of a tertiary education complex at
Morne Fortune, utilising the old military barracks
there.
This was the genesis of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, and today the Hunter J Francois Library at the College stands as a tribute to his vision.
Earlier this year, the Government named a new
road where he lived at Monchy as the Hunter J
Jamaican Pilots Employed
To CAL Delay Protest Action
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC -- The threat of
industrial action by Jamaican pilots employed to
Caribbean Airlines has been called off for the time
being, following a meeting on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Labour, the Jamaica
Airline Pilots Association (JALPA) has decided to
delay the implementation of a 72-hour strike notice.
The notice, which was served on Caribbean
Airlines and Labour Minister, Derrick Kellier, was
scheduled to expire last Friday afternoon.
The Labour Ministry says, another meeting to
discuss the matter has been set for next Tuesday.
At the heart of the dispute is the airline’s insistence that all pilots be represented by the Trinidad
and Tobago Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA).
However, the Jamaican pilots are maintaining
that they cannot be represented by a union outside of Jamaica.
The pilots are upset, that after three years,
their union has not been able to secure bargaining
rights on their behalf.
British Tourists Warned Of
Chikungunya In The Caribbean
LONDON, England CMC – British tourists are
being warned of the dangers of the Chikungunya
virus that is sweeping the Caribbean.
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, “British
tourists in the Caribbean are being struck down
by a debilitating and potentially deadly virus carried by mosquitoes, an unprecedented outbreak
of the Chikungunya virus is affecting islands including Barbados, St. Lucia and the (St. Vincent)
Grenadines, where many UK holidaymakers flock
during the festive season,” it added.
The paper said, thousands have been hit by the
illness, which leaves victims bedridden for days,
and the “more vulnerable victims have died.”
“Yesterday, there were fears that British tourists
may not realize the dangers until it is too late, amid
reports that tour operators are playing down the
problem,” the report continued.
Chikungunya, which is contracted through
mosquito bites, causes a sudden onset of fever
and agonizing joint pain, particularly affecting the
hands, wrists, ankles and feet.
British tourists and expats are among hundreds
of thousands of cases reported since the beginning
of the outbreak last year.
The Caribbean Public Health Agency reports
that as of last month, a total of 739,410 suspected
cases, and 118 deaths have been reported in the
Caribbean and the Americas.
But health officials warned the true numbers
could be higher, as some countries have been slow
in testing and reporting.
Chikungunya was first reported in the region
by the World Health Organization (WHO) last
December.
It is a viral disease transmitted by infected female mosquitoes, with symptoms including high
fever, headaches, rashes and severe joint pain.
There is no vaccine or cure and treatment is
focused on relieving the symptoms.
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Francois Drive.
Francois retired from politics after losing his
seat in the 1974 general election and expressed
his disenchantment with the two party political
system.
He then called for a no party system, which he
argued, would eliminate the tribalism of the two
party system
and be more
beneficial to
the country.
He later
retired from
public life
and became
almost a recluse, not
speaking publicly and declining to give
interviews on
his political
career.
Francois
was also an
Hunter J Francois
accomplished
pianist, and
his gift for music was passed on to his children,
several of whom became musicians, with one of
them, Luther François becoming one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated saxophonists.
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St. Lucia Trade Union Federation
Agrees To Wage Freeze
CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC -- The St. Lucia
Trade Union Federation (TUF) which groups most
of the islands public sector unions, has agreed to
a three-year wage freeze, as part of efforts to help
resuscitate the economy.
The decision was announced in a statement earlier this week at the conclusion of
negotiations between Government and the Federation for the period April 2013 to March 2016.
The TUF has described the wage freeze offer as “a
huge contribution” to national development, and
expressed hope that other sections of the country
will follow the “good example”, in making a sacrifice
for country in times of need.
“The Federation conveyed to government its
understanding of the current economic situation
facing the country, and was ready to assist by
making certain sacrifices towards alleviation of the
situation,” the statement signed by TUF President,
Julian Monrose, noted.
However it made no reference to Government’s
request for a five per cent wage cut for public sector workers, as part of government’s prescription
to deal with an EC$76 million fiscal crisis.
While Government’s proposal for the wage cut
had been initially rejected by all public sector
TUF President, Julian Monrose
unions, Prime Minister Kenny Anthony urged the
public servants to either keep it on the agenda or
come up with alternative ways in which the fiscal
deficit could be funded.
While the TUF made a list of recommendations,
which included the introduction of VAT (Value
Added Tax) on electricity, the St Lucia Civil Service Association (CSA), which is not, a member of
the TUF refused to include the wage cut in any
discussions with the GNT.
In response to the decision of the TUF to accept
New York Mayor Signs Bills Limiting
Deportation Of Caribbean Immigrants
NEW YORK, New York CMC – With United
States President Barack Obama vowing to proceed
on immigration reform by executive order, New York
City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, last Friday, signed two
bills that would drastically limit the federal government’s ability to deport undocumented Caribbean
and other immigrants from New York City.
Under one of the new laws, the city will, in
many cases, refuse to hand over immigrants in
the criminal justice system to federal agents, according to the New York Daily News.
In the past, the city sometimes had to turn over
people, whose cases had been dismissed or who had
been arrested on minor charges, the paper said.
Now, it said, the city will only cooperate with US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), if
the agency has a federal warrant, or if the person
has been convicted of a serious crime, or is on a
terror watch list.
Another bill gets rid of ICE from its offices on
Rikers Island jail in Queens, New York.
“We’re signing legislation that will have a really meaningful effect on the lives of immigrants,”
said de Blasio, as he signed the bill, flanked by
City Legislators and Carlos Rodriguez, who was
mistakenly arrested for trespassing, and detained
by federal law enforcement authorities for eight
months even though the charges were dropped.
Rodriquez is still fighting deportation to the
Dominican Republic, the Daily News said.
“Even though it doesn’t help me right now, I know
it helps somebody else out there,” Rodriquez said.
Nearing the end of an Asian trip, Obama, in
Myanmar, repeated vows to use executive orders
to act on overhauling immigration enforcement.
The president said, Republicans “have the
ability” to pass a comprehensive immigration bill.
But many conservative Republicans said, they
would risk forcing another government shutdown
in a bid to block Obama from changing deportation practices.
“Unless Congress pre-empts or blocks the
President’s promised executive action, a long-term
funding bill is little more than a blank check for amnesty,” said Heritage Action, a Washington-based
lobbying group with major influence among conservative Republicans, urging a shutdown threat.
As de Blasio signed the bills last Friday, New
York City Council Speaker Puerto Rican-born
Melissa Mark-Viverito repeated her support for
another measure, supported by many immigrant
advocacy groups, giving noncitizen immigrants the
right to vote in municipal elections.
Mark-Viverito said the bill could be proposed
as soon as January next year.
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a wage freeze, CSA President, Mary Isaac said she
was not surprised, and declined further comment
until negotiations between the CSA and government are concluded.
Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony who has not
spoken publically for several weeks on the state of
the economy, gave the unions several ultimatums
for resolution of the wage cut issue, all of which
have longed passed.
During his budget presentation in April this
year, Anthony without prior consultation with
public service unions, legislated the 5% wage cut,
which he said was urgently needed to resolve the
islands fiscal crisis.
Jamaican Charged
With Supervisor’s
Murder To Be
Deported
WEST PALM BEACH CMC – A Jamaican man
who has been charged with the murder of his former
supervisor at a resort in Alabama in the United
States in September is now in custody of federal
immigration authorities who plan to deport him.
District Court Judge Eric Fancher has ordered
Rayon Bartley’s bond revoked at the request of a
prosecutor.
Bartley,23, made bond last weekend but had
a hold on him at the Jefferson County Jail for
pickup by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The Jamaican was captured by U.S Marshals
on September 25 after getting off a Greyhound
bus in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He was charged following the September 23
slaying of Jose Raul Cardenas-Ramirez, 36, who
was his former supervisor at Ross Bridge Golf and
Resort Spa.
Bartley who was in the US on a temporary work
visa, was fired by Cardenas-Ramirez the day before
the shooting.
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Jamaican Judge Elected To
International Court Of Justice
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – Renowned Jamaican and international
jurist, Patrick Robinson, has been
elected to serve a judge in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a
nine year period beginning in February 2015.
Both the United Nations General
Assembly and the fifteen-member
United Nations Security Council are
required to record a majority vote for
the winning candidate.
In Monday’s elections, Robinson
received 185 votes in the General Assembly and 15 votes in the Security
Council.
Jamaican Appointed
Chair Of United Nations
Security Council Reform
Ambassador Courtenay Rattray
KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC -- Jamaica’s Permanent Representative
to the United Nations Ambassador
Courtenay Rattray, has been ap-
pointed as Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security
Council reform.
His appointment was announced
on Tuesday by President of the 69th
Session of the General Assembly, Sam
Kutesa, in a letter to Permanent Representatives to the UN in New York.
Reform of the fifteen-member Security Council, has been high on the
agenda of the wider UN membership
for over 20 years.
A statement from Jamaica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign
Trade, said Jamaica has been actively
engaged in the reform process, and
the appointment of its Permanent
Representative will give greater
prominence to the island’s role and
contribution at the United Nations.
Air Traffic
Controllers
In Barbados
Return To
Work
Nurse
Abducted
And
Murdered
In Jamaica
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC –
Air Traffic Controllers at the Grantley
Adams International Airport who
walked off the job on Monday, are
now back on the job .
The Air Traffic controllers have
been protesting against poor working
conditions.
However, after a meeting involving
the National Union of Public Workers
(NUPW) and the airport’s management they returned to their posts just
after midday.
The strike action affected several
flights in and out of the Grantley
Adams International Airport, but the
airport remained open as management manned the control tower.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica CMC
-- The police in western Jamaica are
probing the abduction and murder
of a nurse, late Wednesday.
The police report that Janice
Lamond Wilson ,54, a practical
nurse,was walking with a child along
the Albion main road in the parish
shortly after 8pm when a car drove
up.
Two men alighted and dragged
them inside the vehicle.
They were taken to a nearby community where Lamond-Wilson was
shot twice in the head.
Residents found the body lying face
down on the main road. The child was
released unharmed.
Jurist Patrick Robinson
Robinson is the only Jamaican
and the second Caribbean national
to serve on this body since its establishment 70 years ago.
He will join four other candidates
from Australia, Morocco, Russia and
the United States of America, who
were elected to serve on the Court.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson
Miller, in welcoming the results, said
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Robinson’s elevation marks a historic
moment, not only for Jamaica but the
entire Caribbean.
“The overwhelming support that
he received throughout the rounds
of voting from the UN membership
is a reflection of the excellence of the
Jamaican candidate, and the high
regard with which the country is held
in the international arena,” she said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade, AJ Nicholson, said,
the outcome is an indication of the
level of respect that Jamaica enjoys
for its principled and balanced foreign
policy, and the result of an effective
and strategic campaign, waged by
the foreign ministry and overseas
Missions, particularly our Mission
to the United Nations in New York.
“I wish to thank Argentina for their
very gracious gesture to withdraw
from the process in the interest of
Latin American and Caribbean unity.
I also extend my heartfelt appreciation to the numerous countries that
supported Jamaica in the process,
and to assure them and the entire
international community that they
will find in Judge Robinson, a jurist of
highest integrity, professionalism and
objectivity,” Nicholson said.
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Spoken Word Artist, Lamoi, Produces Show
To Benefit Women In Developing Countries
BRAMPTON, Ontario — When art
speaks, society listens. That is the
mission when spoken word artist,
published writer, and small business
owner, Lamoi, of Our Love is Reckless
(OLIR), brings the art-form of soulful
poetry to the city of Brampton with
the spoken word show, Raw. Poetry.
Soul: The Queens’ Edition.
With a powerful line-up of local
female poets—Lamoi, Alyestal Hamilton, Juanita Stephen and Breanna
Chanelle—accompanied by emerging
vocalist Dijah Janeé, and the well
sought after DJ Afroditee, this event
promises to do what art does best:
inspire, move and create change.
The organisation is dedicated to
the spreading of art, love and being
a change agent through the medium
of poetry. “Our mission is threefold:
first -- to provide a platform for the
poetic art-form in the city of Brampton
and surrounding areas. Second - to
raise funds and awareness for different causes, charities, and tragedies
locally and internationally. Third
-- to highlight local businesses in
and around the city of Brampton and
surrounding areas.”
“I’ve had people ask me why I plan
events in Brampton,” says Lamoi.
“My answer is simple; Brampton is a
vibrant city, full of art and artistically
talented people. Home to many entrepreneurs, small and local businesses
that are almost well kept secrets.
Brampton is very ripe for events like
Raw. Poetry. Soul: The Queens’ Edition. I believe in Brampton. I believe
in the art.”
Not only does the Jamaican native
believe in art, he/she also believes in
raising awareness and much needed
dollars for various causes. This much
anticipated event accomplishes
Lamoi’s mandate through OLIR: giving new voices a stage, highlighting
small businesses, while raising funds
and awareness.
Part of the proceeds will benefit The
Fistula Foundation, a foundation that
funds repair surgeries to women in
developing countries that have been
affected by obstetric fistulas.
With the privilege of enviable medical care, Canadians often are unaware
that a plethora of complications are
possible during something as routine
as childbirth. One such complication
is obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth
canal. The World Health Organization
reports that, “The development of
obstetric fistula is directly linked to
one of the major causes of maternal
mortality: obstructed labour.”
Lamoi says, “When a friend of mine
told me about the Fistula Foundation, I immediately fell in love with
its purpose. As a mother who lives
in a developed country, and having
experienced a painful labour and
birth with continued effects, I couldn’t
imagine having that experience
in a developing country with
little to no medical attention or
aftercare”.
“I decided to raise funds
for this foundation because
I believe in what the foundation does. I support women,
I support motherhood, and I
support organizations that provide funds, and care for those
women. Thank you for helping
me give back!”
It is a societal responsibility
to care for our neighbourhood
and global villages. Lamoi
notes, “As women, we are responsible for the upliftment
and wellbeing of other women,
locally and internationally.”
The mother and entrepreneur believes that all of life is
found in the honesty of one’s
words. A resident of Brampton,
Lamoi lives life and art by those
two different spaces. Her resulting eclectic passions are transferred into her pieces, and she
pens poetry of abuse, love, faith,
social issues and motivation.
She has been performing since
2008, first beginning at Acoustic Soul
Tuesdays. Lamoi has since performed
on the TD Irie Music Festival spoken
word stage, competed in Lyme and
Tings, been a recurring performer
at Spoke n’ Heard, and Love Jones
Sundays, and had a standing role for
2 years as Rachel in the stage play
‘My Date with Bozo’.
Spoken word artist, writer, and
speaker, Alyestal Hamilton’s poetry
has been seen on the pages of North
American literary journals, the stages
of London, England, and the walls of
Uganda.
Most recently she is the recipient
of the Harry Dale Literary Award and
placed second in the YMCA Rep your
Region competition. Through speaking engagements and performance
poetry, Alyestal shares her heart,
ideas, and perspectives to inspire
others to share their stories and find
power in who they are.
Native to Brampton, a mother of
one, and always a lover of words,
Juanita Stephen has been writing
for most of her life. She first found
herself on stage at an open mic event
in Toronto in 2009, and regards that
as one of her most empowering experiences to date. As a Child and Youth
Worker, Juanita recognized that
same power in helping young people
to tell their own stories in their own
way—whether through words, images or something completely unique
to them. As a result, she founded a
Non-Profit organization called One
Heart Canada, which aims to educate
and empower youth through creative
self-expression.
Lamoi
Photo by Ardean Peters.
This young, powerful spoken word
artist was born and raised in Toronto.
Breanna Chanelle’s poetry is inspired
by the trials, tribulations and victories
of her life, and the lives of others. She
aims to be an ambassador for those
who are not yet ready to tell their
stories, and give a voice to those who
cannot seem to find their own.
She began writing at the age of 14
during a time in which she was experiencing trials and fighting battles,
which she did not feel could be shared
with anyone around her.
Eventually she became strong
enough to share her words with others, and performed a spoken word
piece for the very first time in the
eleventh grade at her high school’s
Black History Month Assembly.
Breanna has now performed at
multiple events and plans to continue
doing so. She also has plans of publishing a poetry anthology in the near
future; so be on the look out!
Breanna is also the Founder of
a discussion and creative expression movement “Soultry”, located in
Brampton. This movement is dedicated to awakening minds, and giving
individuals a judgement free space
to share their thoughts, stories, and
opinions on various social issues.
Soul songstress for the night is
Toronto based singer songwriter
Dijah Janeé, making her way onto
the music scene; in her own words,
“Get familiar.” Writing since she was
8 years old, Dijah Janeé’s first love
was poetry. One thing led to the next,
and by 13 she found her voice, and
was writing full songs accompanied
by piano—which she taught herself.
Now a Vocal Major in the Music
Performance and Technology
program at Metalworks Institute, Dijah has developed an
intimate relationship with the
studio and the art of writing
music.
Despite her workload, she
spends most of her time creating—covering genres from
Contemporary Pop, to Neo-Soul,
Hip-Hop and R&B. In this time,
Dijah has also built an exceptional list of Artists, Producers,
and Engineers with whom she
has worked.
Most recent examples are
Twisted Insane (Artist) who featured on Tech N9ne’s song ‘So
Dope’ which has upwards of 7
million views on YouTube, and
the reputable Jeff Crake who
engineered and co-produced
one of Dijah’s latest projects at
Metalworks studios. Though
Dijah is most definitely a studio
bug, she still manages to keep
up with her live performances.
The rise of Dijah Janeé is
inevitable, get familiar.
If you have never experienced
the soulful vibe of DJ Afroditee, you
are in for a beautiful night! Afroditee
never dreamt of becoming a DJ, but
when an opportunity arose at an
event, she took it and did phenomenally. She has a natural ability to
select the right song at the right moment. One year later, she is perfecting
her new found craft, and is found at
different events around the GTA.
She believes music is a universal
language, as she strives to cross social barriers and fade negativity by
mixing one beautiful song at a time.
She has a deep love and knowledge
of music and is dedicated to the art
of spinning.
Playing all genres, DJ Afroditee
specializes in old school, jazz, hiphop, soul and R&B. Never expect to
sit still while DJ Afroditee is on the
ones and twos. She always caters to
the audience and vibes they bring
to ensure a successful event.
Raw. Poetry. Soul: The Queens’
Edition will serve as the birthplace
for the first publication from OLIR.
A chapbook featuring the four spoken word artists of the night will be
launched and available for sale.
The event promises to be the kind
of art described as grit from the souls
of artists. Six amazing women—one
awesome night.
Knuferno Creative Arts and Fitness Studio located at 20 Automatic
Rd, Brampton, will host Raw. Poetry.
Soul on November 29, at 7:00 P.M.
Tickets are $10 in advance and
$15 at the door, and are available at
eventbrite.ca, by emailing lamoi.s@
outlook.com or by calling 647-8810564.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Wednesday, November 19
Asap Ferg & YG Live in Concert
for the Great Coast Connection Tour
on Wednesday, November 19th at
Sound Academy, 11 Polson St. For
info & tickets call 647-222-7178 or
[email protected].
Friday, November 21
DLP Barbados (Canada) invites
all Barbadian organizations/social
groups and friends to a fundraising
evening of friendly competition of
dominoes, scrabble, karaoke, DJ,
etc. on Nov. 21st at 7 pm inside Royal
Canadian Legion, 81 Peard Rd.
Toronto (1 block north of Victoria
Park & St. Clair Ave). Tickets: $25
(includes dinner). The evening will
include cash bar and 50/50 draw.
For tickets call: Joseph Knight –
905-831-4764; Gordon – 416-2770034; Jamilia – 289-878-7936; or
email: dlpbarbadoscanada@gmail.
com.
Saturday, November 22
Phylani Music presents Tony
Anthony “Live to the Fullest” Album
Launch on Nov. 22nd inside Ace of
Hearts Restaurant, 4000 Steeles
Ave. West, Unit #22. Admission:
$20. Show time: 10:30 pm. For
tickets and more info call: 647-9916586 or 647-229-9940.
Pierspective Entraide Humanitaire will host its Fifth Annual
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Fundraising Gala on
Saturday, November 22,
2014 as part of its ongoing fundraising efforts
to complete the Ecole St. Paul de
Corail Cesselesse, a school in Corail Cesselesse, Haiti. The gala will
be held at the Toronto Don Valley
Hotel & Suites, 175 Wynford Drive,
starting at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are
$100 each and may be purchased
by calling 416-222-1074 or 416221-9197. Entertainment for the
evening will include dancers, musical renditions and dancing. For
further information, please contact:
Andrea – 416-222-1074 or Helen
416-221-9197 or visit the website
at www.haitiaide.ca.
Sunday, November 23
Come shop at Lady Boss Holiday
Bazaar where you will find quality
unique gifts at inexpensive prices.
Your ONE stop shop for ALL your
HOLIDAY needs. Holiday shopping with ease. Lady Boss Holiday
Bazaar will be held on Sunday, November 23, 2014 from Noon - 7:00
p.m. at Sheraton Hamilton Hotel,
116 King Street East, 2nd Floor.
Free admission with a canned food
donation for The Hamilton Dream
Center. Free family portraits with
Santa Claus. RSVP @ eventobepr@
gmail.com or call 289-698-2644.
Event Page: https://www.facebook.
com/events/657605117670750/.
serving at 10:30 pm.
Dress code: Formal.
Tuesday, November 25
Don’t miss Sistahfest in recognition of International Day for the
Elimination of Violence Against
Women and hosted by Upfront
Theatre @ York. Sistahfest will be
held on Nov. 25th from 10:00 am to
5:00 pm inside the Student Centre
– Food Court, York University, 4700
Keele Street. Join us in our celebration and empowerment of women
through workshops, theatre production, dance and music. For more
information call: 647-341-9031.
Our Love Is Reckless presents Raw. Poetry. Soul: The
Queens Edition – a night of powerful
spoken word art, soulful singing,
and soul pleasing music – to be
held on Nov. 29th inside KnuFerno
Creative Arts & Fitness Studio, 20
Automatic Rd. Unit 1, Brampton.
Hosted by Lamoi. Music provided
by DJ Afroditee. Doors open at
7 pm. Admission: $10 advance;
$15 at the door. For tickets visit:
Eventbrite.ca/e/raw-poetry-soul.
For more info: Lamoi.s@outlook.
com or 647-881-0564.
Thursday, November 27
Saturday, December 6
The Congress of Black Women
of Canada, Scarborough Chapter’s
Monthly Meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 27, 2014 at
Holy Spirit Catholic School, 3530
Sheppard Avenue, East, Scarborough (Major intersection: Sheppard
& Birchmount). For information:
Phone: (416) 299-3837; (416) 2920362; or (416) 292-0362.
The Guyana Ex-Soldiers Association (Canada) presents the Annual Christmas Dinner & Dance on
Dec. 6th at the elegant elite Banquet
Hall, 1850 Albion Road, Rexdale.
Cocktails: 7 pm – 8 pm. Dinner: 8
pm – 9:30 pm. Cost: $55. For more
info call: David Allen – 905-5674464; Ingrid King – 416-431-0273;
Michael Narain – 905-472-0405;
George Blair – 1-519-660-4314.
Saturday, November 29
Browning presents A Touch of
Elegance and Class 2nd Annual Classic Dinner & Dance inside Palace
Banquet Hall, 4120 Steeles Ave.,
West (Behind the Wendys). Tickets:
Dinner Ticket $35; Without Dinner
$15. Dinner starts at 7:30 pm; Stop
Curtis Eustace & WINHD
Caribbean presents the annual
Christmas Classic on Dec. 6th inside
Armenian Centre, 50 Hallcrown
Place (Victoria Park and 401). Doors
open at 6 pm. Show starts at 8 pm.
Food on sale. Admission: $35, more
at the door. Hotline: 416-728-6504.
St. Timothy’s Anglican Church
Agincourt presents An Evening
of Acappella Music with Cruisin’,
one of Ontario’s Premier Acappella
Quartets, to be held on Saturday,
December 6, 2014 @ 8:00 pm inside St. Timothy’s Anglican Church
Agincourt, 4125 Sheppard Avenue,
East. Get ready for an entertaining
evening of fun and music, featuring great songs from the 1950s,
1960s and beyond, as well as gospel
tunes and Christmas favourites.
Tickets: $25 each (includes wine
and cheese). Contact: 416-2935711 or email office sttims.ca. See
and hear Cruisin’s music at: www.
cruisin-music.com.
It’s that time again, Christmas
is just on the doorstep and we at
Sickle Cell Association of Ontario
would like to invite all children with
sickle cell anemia and their siblings
under the age of 16 to our annual
Christmas party on Dec. 6 from 12
noon – 4 pm at Hospital for Sick
Kids (HSK), 555 University Avenue,
Elizabeth Street entrance, Black
Wing – Room 1248 & 1250. Please
contact the Sickle Cell office to
register your family. Registrations
will close on Monday, November
24, 2014. Registrations can be
accepted by email at sthompson@
sicklecellontario.org or sicklecell@
look.ca. Our telephone number is
(416) 789-2855. We look forward
to seeing you on the day.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Prime Time Deion’s Dallas Mansion!
Although he is best known as
a professional star in both football
and baseball (first person to hit a
MLB home run and score an NFL
touchdown in the same week, and
the only person to play in an MLB
and NFL game on the same day),
Deion Sanders has also been a rap
singer, frequent TV talk show guest
and Saturday Night Live host, had his
own reality TV show, and was even
the emcee for the 2002 Miss USA
Pageant. He has worked extensively
as a football analyst for CBS, ESPN
and currently for the NFL Network.
So, it is no surprise that his nickname
is Prime Time.
Deion started out showing great
talent at Florida State University as
a track, baseball and football
star before going on to play
pro baseball for the Atlanta
Braves, New York Yankees,
Cincinnati Reds and San
Francisco Giants from 1989
to 2001, and simultaneously playing
pro football for the Atlanta Falcons,
San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys,
Washington Redskins and Baltimore
Ravens from 1989 until 2006. He was
inducted into both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football
Hall of Fame. After retiring from active sports at the age of 39, he has
continued as a sports commentator
for major networks. Although Deion
had a bit of a history as a womanizer
and party person, he has turned to
religion in recent years and worked
extensively to mentor troubled youth.
As to his new value system, a comment made during his Pro Football
Hall of Fame induction speech says a
lot: “. . .if your dream in life includes
nobody but yourself, that’s a pretty
poor and selfish and limited dream.”
Going up for auction is the former
residence envisioned and built by the
Dallas Cowboy legend. This is the
home where he raised and enjoyed
his five children. Sited on over nine
acres, the 29,000-square-foot mansion has 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms,
screening room with stage, Astro-turf
gym, sauna, bowling alley and arcade,
indoor and outdoor pools with
spas, full-sized football field
with uprights and an eight-acre
pond with fountain in the back.
The master suite has two-story
his-and-hers closets with laundry, kitchenette, an entrance to the
master garage, dressing rooms with
vanities and fireplace all opening to
outside entertainment areas. The
gourmet eat-in kitchen has double
top-end appliances and has views
over the grounds and the family room.
Outside there is also a basketballsports court with two hoops. For
more information.
Priced at $21 million when it was
formerly listed by Deion, the property
is going to auction on November 18th
with no reserve.
Source: conciergeauctions.com
Movie Star, Michael Douglas, Celebrates Opening Of Resort Redevelopment
HAMILTON, Bermuda CMC -- Actor Michael Douglas was joined by
dignitaries and invited guests, last
week Wednesday, to celebrate the
ground-breaking of a US$85 million redevelopment of Ariel Sands, a
60-year-old cottage colony on Bermuda’s south shore.
The planned luxury
the project went beyond a
resort will feature 85
business deal.
residences in 33 cot“It’s about immortality,
tages, along with a fine
continuity of generations
dining restaurant, spa,
and maintaining the spirit
salon and gym.
of the original project,” he
A cottage belonging
said.
to Douglas’ mother, BerThe project was anmudian actress Diana
nounced on social media
Dill, has been renovated
by Douglas in April.
and is being used as
At the time he posted:
Michael Douglas.
the showroom for the Photo by Georges Biard. “Just returned from Berfuture redevelopment.
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on Wednesday as part
of the ceremony.
The resort is coowned by Douglas and
other members of the
Dill family.
Ariel Sands opened
in 1954 and closed in
2008.
It has sat empty ever
since, pending redevelopment. A number
of potential deals fell
through, including in
2006 when the Hilton
Grand Vacation Club
was to partner with Ariel
Sands in a timeshare
villa, spa, restaurant
and hotel development.
Douglas told the
gathering that he had
his first birthday on the
property, spent time
there during the 1950s
and mid-1960s and
was there more recently
with his wife Catherine
Zeta-Jones and their two
children.
The actor said for him
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Mortgage Options For The Self-employed
By Jon McKay
Pride Finance Columnist
If you’re selfemployed, you may
have a more difficult time obtaining financing for
your real estate
purchases than you encountered
just a while ago, thanks to the recent
recession. And as of April 9, 2010,
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) raised the required
down payment amount, as well as decreased the percentage at which you
can refinance an existing mortgage if
you’re self-employed.
To add to the confusion, there are
also new rules for those who have
been self-employed for more than
three years.
Still, if you can prove your income,
show you’re up-to-date on your taxes
and you have solid credit, your chances of being approved for a mortgage
are greatly improved.
There are essentially two types
of self-employed or business-for-self
(BFS) borrowers – those who can prove
their income and those who cannot,
and must instead use a stated-income
mortgage product. But, if you have
been self-employed for more than
three years, you can no longer use a
stated-income product.
By providing the required documentation, you’re much more likely
to be approved for a mortgage if you
qualify based on your income. The
trouble is that if you cannot prove
your income, you pose a higher risk
in the eyes of lenders.
CMHC currently offers default
mortgage insurance for people who
have been self-employed less than
three years, through a stated-income
mortgage product up to 90% loan
to value (LTV) – meaning the down
payment can be as low as 10% of
the purchase price. But prior to April
9th, 2010, the maximum LTV for
self-employed individuals was 95%
for purchases – meaning the down
payment would have only been 5%
instead of the current 10%.
And if a BFS individual wishes to
refinance an existing mortgage, the
maximum loan amount was reduced
to 85% from the previous 90% of the
home’s value.
Regardless of the maximum LTV,
however, the income amount you
are stating has to make sense based
on your occupation. This is important, because the chances of finding
lenders to fund this type of deal are
significantly boosted if the mortgage
is insured.
Lenders and insurers are well
aware of the tax write-offs that BFS
borrowers can leverage, but these
deals are accepted or declined based
on average incomes for specific fields,
as well as your credit rating. It pretty
much goes without saying that those
with credit blemishes will have a tough
time obtaining mortgage financing if
they’re self-employed.
Getting pre-approved
While BFS mortgage financing is
viewed on a case-by-case basis, if
you work with a licensed mortgage
professional to obtain a pre-approval,
you can be confident that you have
access to mortgage financing, and
you will know how much you can
spend before you head out shopping
for a property.
Michael Douglas, Celebrates
Opening Of Resort Redevelopment
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mother’s family for the last 400
years”.
“The family has had a cottage
colony called Ariel Sands for the
past 60 years. Now we are building
a new one ... very exciting.”
Douglas thanked the government
of Bermuda and the Bermuda Tourism Authority (BTA) for their help
and co-operation in getting the project off the ground. New York-based
firm Olympic Property Partners has
been confirmed as the developer.
BTA chairman Bill Hanbury said
earlier that the Authority had held
conversations with Douglas about
raising the island’s profile.
Hanbury told the Royal Gazette
newspaper: “Michael is interested in
helping us not only to promote the
BTA but also to promote Bermuda
to a global audience.
“He has terrific reach, particu-
larly in the social media world, and
we want to take him up on that offer.
We think he is a great spokesperson
for Bermuda, so whatever he does to
promote Bermuda is of value to us.
“The announcement of the redevelopment is very important and
we believe that a new product like
that, with two terrific Bermuda supporters like Michael Douglas and
Catherine Zeta-Jones, are of high
value in the market place, and we
are going to fully take advantage
of that.
“He certainly is interested in this
development -- it made economic
sense to them.
I would suggest that they are not
just doing this out of the goodness
of their hearts by any stretch of
the imagination. It is a very strong
concept that works really well with
Bermuda as a product, so we are
fired up about it.”
It’s important to note, however,
that there is a significant difference
between being pre-approved and
pre-qualified. In order to obtain a
pre-approval, the lender fully underwrites the deal whereas, with a
pre-qualification, only the most basic
details are considered. Remember
that many banks will only issue a
pre-qualification.
Should a pre-approval and/or
mortgage default insurance be unobtainable, the maximum mortgage
amount for which you are likely to
qualify is between 50% and 75% –
meaning you will need a much larger
down payment.
A ternati e financin
If you do not qualify for traditional
financing all is not lost, since you
may be eligible for alternative – or
private – funding.
Mortgage professionals often have
access to private investors who are
willing to lend money to BFS individuals looking to obtain mortgages.
Although you will pay a higher interest
rate – on average about 12% – this
route may enable you to acquire funds
to purchase a home.
It’s also important to note that
there are added fees involved with
private funding because the deals
involve a higher degree of risk. The
combined lender/brokerage fee will
depend on the specific deal and the
risk it poses, but the figure will be
disclosed upfront so you know exactly
what you’ll be expected to pay for
these services.
Another key point to consider is
that private financing is equity based,
meaning that the lender’s decision will
be based on a specific piece of real
estate. Private lenders want to know
that the property is marketable and
that they will be able to easily sell it
should the mortgage go into foreclosure.
Jon McKay is a mortgage agent with Dominion
Lending Centres. He can be reached at his
website: www.CallJonNow.com or by phone:
416-846-2203 or 1-888-281-3240.
Jamaican Company
To Spend Millions
Exploring For Oil
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The
Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica
(PCJ) says it will ensure that Jamaicans benefit, if oil is found from
the recently announced gas and oil
exploration project.
The exercise, which commenced
on November 1, is being facilitated
under a production sharing agreement (PSA) signed by the PCJ, and
Tullow Jamaica Limited.
An exploration licence has been
issued to the firm, which has committed some J$6.7 billion (One Jamaica
dollar=US$0.004 cents) to undertake
activities off the island’s south coast.
PCJ manager, Oil and Gas, Brian
Richardson, said the PCJ will ensure
that the project “brings the benefits
that we desire,” if the survey results
in the discovery of oil.
“We worked very hard to get
someone like Tullow Oil on board
and it is our earnest wish that as
we go forward, it brings the benefits
that we desire. The PCJ and its team
will ensure that we commit all the
resources that we do have, to ensure
that Jamaica gets the fullest benefit
from the programme being implemented,” he said.
Richardson said the project will
have several phases.
“In each of those phases, the explorer, Tullow Oil, will be looking to
build on the knowledge of the past
and continue to use their internal
expertise, develop on that knowledge
and hopefully point to a place, where
we could go on to a more detailed
seismic work, using sound waves to
investigate under the surface,” he
added.
The PCJ executive said that a
key component of the project is the
intellectual sharing and transfer of
knowledge, noting that Tullow Oil will
be collaborating with the Department
of Geology at the Mona campus of the
University of the West Indies.
“They have been here for over 80
years. They have the underground
knowledge and I believe that they
(Tullow Oil) will definitely use the
resources there,” he said, noting that
the team will meet with members of
the Department, to get them on board
and to hold discussions with students
pursuing their PhDs.
“We want to get them on board
to ensure that they go through the
process and develop that knowledge
base,” he said.
PSJ Group General Manager,
Winston Watson, said the immediate benefits of the project will be
mainly investments in the country,
and job creation on a small scale, as
the company begins “to ramp up its
activities here”.
“We have not found anything yet.
We are just going through the exploration,” he added.
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I Taught My Black Kids That Their Elite Upbringing
Would Protect Them From Discrimination. I Was Wrong!
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correctly, my son moved closer to the curb, and
asked politely, “I’m sorry; I didn’t hear you.”
But he had heard correctly. And this time the
man spoke more clearly. “Only … nigger,” he said
with added emphasis.
My son froze. He dropped his backpack in
alarm and stepped back from the idling car. The
men honked the horn loudly and drove off, their
laughter echoing behind them.
By the time he recounted his experience a few
minutes later, my son was back in his dorm room,
ensconced on the third floor of a red-brick fortress.
He tried to grasp the meaning of the story as he
told it: why the men chose to stop him, why they
did it in broad daylight, why they were so calm
and deliberate.
“Why would they do that — to me?” he whispered breathlessly into the phone. “Dad, they don’t
know me. And they weren’t acting drunk. It’s just
3:30 in the afternoon. They could see me, and I
could see them!”
My son rambled on, describing the car and the
men, asking questions that I couldn’t completely
answer. One very clear and cogent query was why,
in Connecticut in 2014, grown men would target
a student who wasn’t bothering them to harass in
broad daylight. The men intended to be menacing.
“They got so close — like they were trying to ask
directions.
They were definitely trying to scare
me,” he said.
“Are you okay?” I interrupted. “Are you —”
“Yeah,” he continued anxiously. “I’m okay. I
guess. … Do you think they saw which dorm I
went back to? Maybe I shouldn’t have told my
roommate. Should I stay in my dorm and not go
to the library tonight?”
Despite his reluctance, I insisted that he report
the incident to the school. His chief concern was
not wanting the white students and administrators
to think of him as being special, different, or “racial.” That was his word. “If the other kids around
here find out that I was called a nigger, and that I
complained about it,” my son pleaded, “then they
will call me ‘racial,’ and will be thinking about race
every time they see me. I can’t have that.” For the
next four weeks of the summer program, my son
remained leery of cars that slowed in his proximity (he’s still leery today). He avoided sidewalks,
choosing instead to walk on campus lawns. And
he worried continually about being perceived as
racially odd or different.
Herein lay the difference between my son’s black
childhood and my own. Not only was I assaulted
by the n-word so much earlier in life — at age 7,
while visiting relatives in Memphis — but I also
had many other experiences that differentiated my
life from the lives of my white childhood friends.
There was no way that they would “forget” that
I was different. The times, in fact, dictated that
they should not forget; our situation would be
unavoidably “racial.”
When my family moved into our home in an
all-white neighborhood in suburban New York in
December 1967, at the height of the black-power
movement and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
civil-rights marches, integration did not — at
all — mean assimilation. So my small Afro, the
three African dashiki-style shirts that I wore to
school every other week, and the Southern-style
deep-fried chicken and watermelon slices that my
Southern-born mother placed lovingly in my school
lunchbox all elicited surprise and questions from
the white kids who regarded me suspiciously as
they walked to school or sat
with me in the cafeteria.
After all, in the 1960s, it
was an “event” — and generally not a trouble-free one
— when a black family integrated a white neighborhood.
Our welcome was nothing like
the comically naive portrayal
carried off by Sidney Poitier
and his white fiancée’s liberal
family members in the film
“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” which had opened the
very month that we moved in.
It wasn’t about awkward
pauses, lingering stares and
subtle attempts of “throwing
shade” our way. It was often
blatant and sometimes ugly.
Brokers openly refused to
show houses to my parents
in any of the neighborhoods
that we requested, and once
we found a house in the New
York Times Sunday classifieds, the seller demanded a
price almost 25 percent higher than listed in the
paper. (My parents paid it.) A day after Mom and
Dad signed the contract, a small band of neighbors circulated a petition that outlined their desire
to preemptively buy the house from the seller to
circumvent its sale to us. My parents were so
uncertain of this new racial adventure that they
held onto our prior house for another four years —
renting it on a year-to-year lease — “just in case,”
as my mother always warned, with trepidation on
her tongue.
Referred to as “that black family that moved onto
Soundview,” we never quite felt in step with our
surroundings. A year after moving in, my 9-yearold brother was pulling me down our quiet street
in his red-and-white Radio Flyer wagon when we
were accosted by a siren-screaming police car. An
officer stepped out shouting, “Now, where did you
boys steal that wagon?” Pointing breathlessly to
our house a few yards away, we tried to explain
that it was my brother’s new wagon, but the officer ushered us into the back seat. Our anguished
mother heard the siren and ran across three lawns
to intervene. What I remember most is how it
captured the powerlessness and racial isolation
that defined our childhood in that neighborhood.
We never encountered drawn or discharged
guns like those faced by unarmed black teenagers
Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., or Michael Brown
in Ferguson, Mo. But I was followed, stopped and
questioned in local stores and on local streets
frequently enough that I wondered whether my
parents would have been better able to protect
us from these racial brushes had they been rich,
famous, or powerful — or if they had been better
acquainted with the white world in which they
immersed us.
Perhaps I was naive to think that if they had
been raised outside segregated Southern neighborhoods and schools, they would have been better
able to help us navigate the life we were living. In
the 1970s, I imagined that the privileged children
of rich and famous blacks like Diana Ross, Bill
Cosby or Sidney Poitier were untouched by the
insults and stops that we faced.
Even though the idea wasn’t fully formed, I
somehow assumed that privilege would insulate a
The author and his family.
(Photo by Christine Butler)
person from discrimination. This was years before
I would learn of the research by Peggy McIntosh,
the Wellesley College professor who coined the
phrase “white male privilege,” to describe the inherent advantages one group in our society has
over others in terms of freedom from discriminatory stops, profiling and arrests. As a teenager, I
didn’t have such a sophisticated view, other than
to wish I were privileged enough to escape the bias
I encountered.
And that was the goal we had in mind as my
wife and I raised our kids. We both had careers
in white firms that represented the best in law,
banking and consulting; we attended schools
and shared dorm rooms with white friends and
had strong ties to our community (including my
service, for the last 12 years, as chairman of the
county police board).
I was certain that my Princeton and Harvard
Law degrees and economic privilege not only would
empower me to navigate the mostly white neighborhoods and institutions that my kids inhabited, but
would provide a cocoon to protect them from the
bias I had encountered growing up. My wife and
I used our knowledge of white upper-class life to
envelop our sons and daughter in a social armor
that we felt would repel discriminatory attacks.
We outfitted them in uniforms that we hoped
would help them escape profiling in stores and
public areas: pastel-colored, non-hooded sweatshirts; cleanly pressed, belted, non-baggy khaki
pants; tightly-laced white tennis sneakers; TopSider shoes; conservative blazers; rep ties; closely
cropped hair; and no sunglasses. Never any sunglasses.
No overzealous police officer or store owner
was going to profile our child as a neighborhood
shoplifter. With our son’s flawless diction and
deferential demeanor, no neighbor or play date
parent would ever worry that he was casing their
home or yard.
Seeing the unwillingness of taxis to stop for
him in our East Side Manhattan neighborhood,
and noting how some white women clutched their
purses when he walked by or entered an elevator,
we came up with even more rules for our three
children:
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IMF Urges Jamaica To Create Business Friendly Public Sector
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) says the Jamaican government needs to reduce bureaucracy by creating a
“more business friendly public sector.”
In a statement issued following an IMF mission that ended on Friday, mission chief Jan Kees
Martijn said, while Jamaica’s economic outlook is
improving, “the critical challenge ahead will be to
sustain the reform momentum and strong fiscal
position,” wide ranging efforts will be needed to
improve the business climate.”
“Work is still required, though, to streamline
the process for construction permits, create a
more business friendly public sector by reducing
bureaucracy, and to make the energy sector more
efficient.”
He added that the country must maintain the
primary surplus of the central government at
7.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in
2015/16, by building a stronger tax administration and restraining the
wage bill through a public sector transformation that raises government efficiency.
Martijn said Jamaica’s Extended Fund Facility
(EFF), under the IMF’s programme is on track and
all programme targets to the end of September
were met.
“The economic outlook is improving, activity is
estimated to have expanded by about 1.8 percent
year on year during April – June 2014.”
He however, noted that the recent drought is
expected to have undercut growth in the July-
September quarter, but the economy will pick up
with growth projected at 2 percent in 2015/16.
Concerning inflation – he said it is likely to
remain around 8 percent this year.
The IMF’s Executive Board is expected to consider the sixth review of Jamaica’s IMF-supported
program under the EFF in December.
Upon approval, US$68 million will be made
available to Jamaica.
While in Jamaica, the mission met with Finance
Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, Central Bank Governor,
Brian Wynter, Financial Secretary, Devon Rowe as
well as representatives of the private sector and
civil society.
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Would Protect Them From Discrimination. I Was Wrong!
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1. Never run while in the view of a police officer
or security person unless it is apparent that you
are jogging for exercise, because a cynical observer
might think you are fleeing a crime or about to
assault someone.
2. Carry a small tape recorder in the car, and
when you are the driver or passenger (even in the
back seat) and the vehicle has been stopped by the
police, keep your hands high where they can be
seen, and maintain a friendly and non-questioning
demeanor.
3. Always zip your backpack firmly closed or
leave it in the car or with the cashier so that you
will not be suspected of shoplifting.
4. Never leave a shop without a receipt, no
matter how small the purchase, so that you can’t
be accused unfairly of theft.
5. If going separate ways after a get-together
with friends and you are using taxis, ask your
white friend to hail your cab first, so that you will
not be left stranded without transportation.
6. When unsure about the proper attire for a
play date or party, err on the side of being more
formal in your clothing selection.
7. Do not go for pleasure walks in any residential neighborhood after sundown, and never carry
any dark-colored or metallic object that could be
mistaken as a weapon, even a non-illuminated
flashlight.
8. If you must wear a T-shirt to an outdoor
play event or on a public street, it should have
the name of a respected and recognizable school
emblazoned on its front.
9. When entering a small store of any type,
immediately make friendly eye contact with the
shopkeeper or cashier, smile, and say “good morning” or “good afternoon.”
These are just a few of the humbling rules that
my wife and I have enforced to keep our children
safer while living integrated lives. For years, our
kids who have heard stories of officers mistakenly
arresting or shooting black teens who the officers
“thought” were reaching for a weapon or running
toward them in a menacing way — have registered
their annoyance at having to follow them. (My
12-year-old daughter saw the importance of the
rules when, in late August, she and I were stopped
by a county police officer who apparently was curious about a black man driving an expensive car.
He later apologized.)
Not many months ago, my children and I sat in
the sprawling living room of two black bankers in
Rye, N.Y., who had brought together three dozen
affluent African American parents and their children for a workshop on how to interact with law
enforcement in their mostly white communities.
Two police detectives and two criminal-court
judges — all African American — provided practical suggestions on how to minimize the likelihood
of the adolescents being profiled or mistakenly
Tasered or shot by inexperienced security guards
or police officers.
Some of the parents and most of the kids sat
smugly, passing around platters of vegetables and
smoked salmon — while it helped to have the lessons reinforced by police officers, we had all heard
it many times before.
My kids and I had it all figured out. Or so we
thought.
The boarding-school incident this summer was
a turning point for us — particularly for my son
and his younger siblings. Being called a nigger
was, of course, a depressing moment for us all.
But it was also a moment that helped bring our
surroundings into clearer focus. The fact that it
happened just days before the police shooting of
Michael Brown increased its resonance for our family. Our teenage son no longer makes eye contact
with pedestrians or drivers who pass on the street
or sidewalk. He ceased visiting the school library
this summer after sundown, and now refuses
to visit the neighborhood library, just one block
away, unless accompanied. He asks us to bear
with him because, as he explains, he knows that
the experience is unlikely to happen again, but
he doesn’t like the uncertainty. He says he now
feels both vulnerable and resentful whenever he
is required to walk unaccompanied.
It also was a lesson for us to grasp that some
white men may believe such acts are really no big
deal. I called a dean at the boarding school, who
seemed to justify the incident as something that
“just happens” in a place where “town-and-gown
relations” are strained, but he had little else to say.
My son’s school adviser never contacted me about
the incident, acting with the same indifference that
so many black parents have come to expect. After
I reached out to them, I never heard from either
man again. Like so many whites who observe our
experiences, these two privileged white males
treated the incident like a “one-off” that demanded
no follow-up and that quickly would be forgotten.
Through no fault of their own, many white men,
I think, are unaware or unappreciative of the white
male privilege that they enjoy every day, which
Wellesley professor McIntosh wrote about in her
studies of race, gender, class and privilege. They
have no idea how much they take for granted,
or know of the burdens endured daily by many
people in their own communities. Nor do they appreciate the lingering effects of such burdens and
daily traumas. Perhaps many feel that racism is
inconsequential, if not altogether dead. After all,
as some of my white colleagues have pointed out
cynically, how much racism can there be if the
country elected a black president?
Let me say that to acknowledge that white male
privilege exists does not mean that white privileged
men are hostile or racist — or that all bad things
that happen to black people are occurring only
because of racial bigotry. But I am no better able
to explain the lackadaisical response of the two
white men to whom I reported the incident than
I am able to explain the motives of the two white
men who called my son a nigger in the first place.
And perhaps this is why it is so difficult to fairly
and productively discuss the privilege (or burdens)
that are enjoyed (or endured) by groups to which
we don’t belong. Try as I may to see things from
the perspective of a white person, I can see them
only from the experience that I have as a black man
and had as a black boy. As we observe each other
and think that we have a close understanding of
what it means to be black, white, Hispanic, Asian,
male, female, rich or poor, we really don’t — and
very often we find ourselves gazing at each other
through the wrong end of the telescope. We see
things that we think are there but really aren’t.
And the relevant subtleties linger just outside our
view, eluding us.
Lawrence Otis Graham is an attorney in New York and the
author of 14 books, including “Our Kind of People” and “The
Senator and The Socialite.”
This essay is adapted from a story in the October 8 edition of
the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The name of the boarding school
has been fictionalized.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Too Tired For Sex? How To Cope
By Amirah
Pride S ex Columnist
In my younger, sexually eager and curious
years, I had grand dreams of marrying a tall, dark
and handsome man; holing up in a bright, window
encased apartment, living my days in nothing but
my taut and slim birthday suit, and filling the
hours with wild, loud, amazing sex.
Now that I’ve gotten older, my body is neither as
taut nor slim as it used to be, my stamina is not
as long winded, nor my days as endless. After long
hours spent at work, sitting in traffic, after huge
amounts of energy has been devoted to cooking,
cleaning, cussing off President Fitzgerald Grant
and cheering for Jake, and generally navigating
through life, I’m tired.
Tiredness and exhaustion is a by-product of
the life we have chosen to live. The hamster wheel
of life doesn’t respect sleeping patterns or allow
for self and relationship/familial care, but it does
support the ailments, and breakdowns that come
out of the long days and seemingly longer nights.
The demands outside of the home we are told are
an obligation to fill, causes our innate obligations
to suffer, including the maintaining of romantic
relationships.
It happens. Our dreams at some point give
way to our realities, our carefree ways of looking
at our sexual relationships, get consumed with
the facts of life and something has to give—and
sometimes that something is making the time to
sexually connect with your partner.
If you’re in a relationship with someone you
don’t live with, it’s never as simple as rolling over in
bed and initiating sexual contact. It often involves
aligning schedules and making the time to get together, freshening up, getting dressed, driving to
your lover, engaging in emotional, physical, and
sexual intimacy, freshening up, getting dressed,
driving back home, and falling into bed emotionally,
physically and sexually exhausted. Sometimes all
of that effort is not worth the orgasm.
What do you do when that happens? Does it
become a matter of duty over preference? Do you
give in to maintain a happy bedroom environment?
Is your partner selfish enough to pout, and whine,
and you acquiesce so you just won’t have to deal?
Although sex is an energy spending activity, it
is also a rejuvenating one. Sex with someone of
like energy and spiritual balance centres you; it
renews and refreshes your body, mind, and soul.
Merging sexually with someone that is off balance,
and carriers of negative energy will deplete and
drain you instead of replenish, and sometimes the
effects will be long lasting.
A good love down session can also rock you into
the sweetest slumber. J. Holiday knew what he
was talking about when he crooned and promised
he would put the lucky lady to bed. There are two
ways I generally gauge the potency of my lover:
How well can I walk in the morning? And, will this
put me to sleep?
Sex in a state of tiredness may be a good time
to put the toys away, close the Kama Sutra, light
some candles, put on some Beres Hammond and
make love the old fashioned way. Whether your
go-to is my favourite the missionary position, or
the spoon, simple and sweet can save the day.
Don’t be afraid to make requests as well. If
you’re too spent for a full out sex romp, but would
love for him to lick your clit, finger you, or suck
your nipples into slumber, say it girl! If you don’t
want to be touched at all, say that too. Sex should
never be a duty, or an obligation, intimacy is a
bond that holds the relationship together, but so
is your health.
If you find that days and weeks, possibly months
have gone by, where you are consistently too tired
to engage sexually with your partner, it is time to
refocus your priorities. Talk to your partner, talk
to a professional, take an honest evaluation of your
life, and where you spend your energy, this may
be an indication that something needs to change,
or be removed altogether from your life.
As your lover is crawling into bed with the anticipation of getting some cookies is not the best
time to say, “I’m too tired.” Sometimes no multitude
of love can overlook days, weeks, and months of
“I’m too tired.” Honest and open communication
is always the key, even when the key has to be
forced into a rusty keyhole.
Do you have questions or problems regarding your sex life?
Amirah can help you with answers. Your name and information
will not be published. Amirah welcomes your feedback! Send
your comments or questions to: [email protected]. Follow
her on Twitter: @I_amAmirah.
Watch For The Four Symptoms Of Youth Depression
By Jeff Moat
G uest W r iter
NC – The school year can be a stressful time
for parents and youth alike. Adapting to new
schedules, new teachers and new challenges can
heighten existing mental health problems and illness. In Canada, data shows approximately 5%
of male youth and 12% of female youth, age 12 to
19, have experienced a major depressive episode.
During this trying time of year, it’s especially important to be aware of your teen’s state of mind.
Here are four symptoms to look out for related to
youth depression from the Partners for Mental
Health’s parent guide:
1. Loss of interest in life and activities: If
your youth shows a lack of interest in day to day
events, a negative attitude or an unwillingness to
partake in activities they usually enjoy, they may
be facing a mental health problem or illness, such
as depression.
2. Change in behaviours (eating/sleeping):
Changes in sleeping and eating patterns may also be
a sign that an issue exists. Symptoms can include
anything from overeating, to not eating enough, to
sleeping long hours, or sleeping very rarely.
3. Use of drugs or alcohol: An increase in
reckless behaviour including drug and alcohol use
may also be a sign of a mental health problem or
issue. Check in with your kids and make sure they
have a healthy attitude towards drugs and alcohol.
4. Changes in personality: If you notice that
your youth has experienced a drastic shift in
personality, or sense of low self-esteem, it may be
more than just the typical adolescent mood swing.
Being aware of the warning signs of mental
health problems or illness, such as depression,
and encouraging an open dialogue with your teen
are just a few of the steps you can take, to help
support your youth’s mental health and prevent
problems and suicide. However, keep in mind
that just because you notice one or more of these
changes, it does not necessarily mean that your
youth has a mental illness. But you should consider approaching them and seeking a professional
opinion and/or help.
Additional information is available within the
free parent guide from the national charity, Partners
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for Mental Health at www.rightbyyou.ca.
Jeff Moat is the President of Partners for Mental Health, an
organization that seeks to transform the way Canadians think
about, act towards and support mental health and people living
with a mental illness.
D ep res s ion s ource: h ttp : / / w w w . cmh a . ca / med ia / f a s t- f a cts a b out- menta l- illnes s /
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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HEALTHY REASONING: Time For A Diversity Based Approach To Healthcare
By Allan Bucka Jones
Pride H ealth Columnist
One of the most
important statements made by
Toronto’s Mayor
Rob Ford is recently
when, in reference to his current
health status, he suggested that
without good health nothing else
matters. I have beensaying the same
thing for years, through my columns,
on radio, at events and in one on one
discussions with individuals. In the
recent Toronto municipal elections,
transit was foremost in the candidates’ platforms, and not once did
I hear any talk about health. I have
said over and over, that if we do not
address the serious health concerns
of our community, the subways being
built will only transport us to medical
appointments.
Canada is known worldwide for
its multiculturalism, an acceptance
that the fabric of Canada depends
on the input of many differing ethnicitieswho live in Canada. The motto
of Toronto, Canada’slargestcity,is
“Diversity Our Strength”. However,I
find that the acceptance of diversity in
Toronto and Canada,does not extend
to healthcare. The treatments Black
people receive from medical practitioners and auxiliary organizations that
contribute to healthcare, is based on
a “one size fits all” approach, which
usually is Eurocentric.
In Canada, disease information
based on race, is not data that is collected or available. However, there is
evidence available from other countries, that shows that Black individuals are affected differently by many
diseases and therefore should receive
specific messaging and therapies to
deal with their unique situation.
Let us look at some of the common illnesses that affect the Black
community:
Lupus is a disease in which the
body attacks its own healthy tissues
and organs. Black women are three
times more likely to get lupus than
white women. The disease also develops at a younger age and carries more
severe symptoms in Black women.
Despite this, the Black community is
not targeted with specific messagesregarding lupus, so many women go
untreated or undertreated, with this
hard to diagnose, debilitating condition, and may not access agencies
that can help.
Sickle Cell Disease affects many
ethnicities, but is at a disproportionately higher rate in Black individuals.
However, despite the devastating nature of this disease, many still remain
unaware of the disease, and still give
birth to children with the full blown
disease. Also, many medical practitioners, due to lack of knowledge, are
unable to properly treat patients who
are experiencing a sickle cell problem.
Breast Cancer carries atriple
negative category,where growth of the
cancer is not supported by hormonal
estrogen and progesterone.Black
women are three times more likely
to develop this type of breast cancer,
which is about 10-20% of all breast
cancers. It affects women in their early
thirties. It is a very aggressive type
of cancer, and can lead to death by
the mid-thirties. However, there is a
great disconnect with the messaging
coming from the Canadian Cancer
Society in which women are encouraged to do a mammogram when they
are in their late forties. By then it is
too late for many Black women.
Prostate Cancer is a big problem
amongmiddle aged men. Black men
have higher rates of this cancer. There
is a need for a sustained prostate
cancer messaging from the Canadian
Cancer Society and other agencies, directed to our community. Men should
be constantly encouraged to do the
prostate cancer screening tests, and
partake in positive lifestyle changes
like resorting to anti-cancer diets.
Prostate Cancer Canada is becoming
more active in our community, supporting promotional efforts directed
to Black individuals.
Diabetes is avery devastating
disease at epidemic proportions
in the Black community. We
commend the Canadian Diabetes
Association for seeing the need
to have an annual Black Diabetes Expo, for the past five years,
and supporting the Caribbean
Diabetes Chapter founded by
diabetes educator Kathy Nelson.
Pharmaceutical companies like
Janssen should be commended
for their support. There is still
room for more community activity as
we strive to deal with diabetes and
pre-diabetesthat affect over 9 million
Canadians, and the number keeps
growing year after year.
Sodium / Salt Content of common
foods is a big contributor to high blood
pressure, diabetes, kidney disease,
stomach cancer and many other illnesses. Our processed food manufacturers and the local Caribbean and
African restaurants,should reduce
the salt content of their products and
meals. Too much salt in our food is
literally killing our community.
There are many other situations
where it is clear that the “one size fits
all” medical approach, is inadequate
and inappropriate, and does not work
for our community. Now what?
All three levels of government,
municipal, provincial and federal,
should live up to the diversity focus
of Canada, and support initiatives
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that promote specific health messages to different communities, based
on their propensity to be affected by
the diseases. This is a fiscally sound
approach, as preventative programs
will save money by preventing diseases from being manifested totally,
or manifested at less devastating
levels. We need to be reached where
we are, with ethnically appropriate
messaging.
Let us get active and engage our
politicians and other decision makers in serious dialogue about the
approach to our health. A diversity
approach to Canadian healthcare is
long overdue.
Allan Bucka Jones is a Health Promoter and
Broadcaster. He can be heard on “Allan Bucka
Jones LIVE”, Sundays from 3 to 5pm on CHRY
105.5 FM, www.chry.fm option RDO.to , Rogers
Digital Cable 945, Bell Fibe 973 or mobile app
TuneIn Radio. You can contact Allan Bucka
Jones at [email protected].
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Scorpio
(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Love and relationships will test your
patience this week. Use
less frustration and
more understanding.
Sagittarius
(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Just by making one
positive choice you can
change your life. Do it
now and stop procrastinating.
Capricorn
(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)
The neurons firing in
your brain will feel like
energy shooting out to
space. Use this extra
thinking power to plan
more of your future!
Aquarius
(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)
Taurus
(April 20 - May 20)
You can ignore the
people who frustrate
you, but it does not
say much about your
maturity. It is best to
always confront your
frustrations and deal
with them as best you
can with a sense of
mental ripeness.
Take care of your
body this week. Consume less meats and
more roughage. Not only
will you feel lighter, but
you will actually feel
more awakened.
Pisces
(Feb 19 - March 20)
Gemini
(May 21- June 20)
This week you will
find that those whom
you thought you would
never need, will actually
serve a purpose.
It is okay to be different. Do not judge
yourself due to your
uniqueness. It is the
Aries
(March 21- April 19)
Be mindful what you
are saying and do not
say something that you
cannot take back.
5 Ways To Stay Energy
Efficient This Winter
NC – Old Man Winter is just around the corner,
bringing cold, frigid temperatures and a desire to
stay in and stay warm. Heating costs make up
a significant portion of household expenses, but
there are ways
to manage your
energy use while
still staying warm
and cozy. Dave
Walton, the director of home ideas
at Direct Energy,
shares five easy
ways to improve energy efficiency this winter:
1. Lower the thermostat: Put on a sweater or
extra blanket and lower your thermostat by two
degrees Celsius to save up to four per cent on your
heating bill. Consider replacing your old thermostat
with a programmable one – some versions learn
your behaviour and adjust the temperature based
on your living patterns.
2. Keep in the heat: Look into the attic and
check to see if your current insulation needs to
be topped up. Regardless of the type of insulation
you have, there should be a minimum of 12 inches
of insulation in your attic. Improving your home’s
insulation is one of the fastest and most cost effective ways to cut down on your heating costs.
3. Maintain your furnace: Most manufacturers recommend that you clean or replace furnace
filters every three months. It’s important to book a
full inspection with a professional to maintain your
manufacturer’s warranty and ensure your system
is working safely and efficiently. Doing this should
also help cut down on your energy consumption.
4. Use ‘free’ heat: Open curtains and blinds
on sunny days to let the warmth in.
5. Seal it up: Check for air leaks around doors,
windows and electrical outlets and use caulking
or weather stripping to seal out the cold air. If you
were to add up all the leaks in the average Canadian home, you would end with a hole about the
size of a basketball.
Additional tips and ideas can be found at www.
DavesCorner.ca.
most bizarre individuals who make the most
impact on society.
Cancer
(June 21- July 22)
Let go of the past.
Holding onto to the pain
will only manifest negative and quite possibly
your health.
Leo
(July 23- August 22)
You will have a revelation this week about
your own character. If
you find that a part of
your personality should
be transformed, then
start working on its
psyche by studying free
energy and neuroplasticity.
Virgo
(Aug. 23 - Sept. 22)
Unpredictable circumstances will transpire this week. Although the circumstances will not be overly
challenging you will still
experience a few lessons
during the process.
Libra
(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22)
Your confidence will
grow during the next
few weeks. If you are
trying to lose weight
or gain respect, this is
the time to focus on you
and your ability to be
all you can be.
Cerise Fairfax is a Life
Coach and can be reached
at: (41 6) 722-5233 and
cerisefairfax@ gmail.com.
Visit www.cerisefairfax.
com for life coaching advice and daily inspiration.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
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Enjoy Soft, Healthy, Hydrated Skin All Winter
By Jean Pierre
Pride S k in Car e
Columnist
One of the
best ways to
prepare your
skin for the fall
in preparation
for the winter
months is to have your skin exfoliated professionally. However, you
could opt for the option of DIY at
home. Super hydration of the skin
is paramount following exfoliation.
Fall is a time of change. As the
season changes so is the need for
change in our daily skin and body care
routine. Summer holidays, time at the
beach, pool parties and going to the
ball park with children, friends and
family can all cause a lot of build-up
of dead skin cells over the summer
months, and particularly, if your
skin is oily, you have acne, or an oily
combination. Dead cells will adhere
to the skin making breakouts more
obvious and bothersome.
The fact that your skin goes
through many changes during the fall,
which will likely cause your skin type
to change, you should visit your aesthetician to get your skin analyzed or
a cosmetic counter to consult with one
of the skin care professionals. This
way you will get the best treatment
and products to suit your skin type.
A host of treatment specific facials
and products are available for different skin types. Black-skinned individuals should look for products that
are not harsh, but effective enough
to do what the product promises to
do and still maintain the integrity of
the skin.
Glycolic peels are excellent for
quick exfoliation of dead skin, removal
of hyper-pigmented areas of the skin,
age spots, decreasing oiliness of the
skin and reducing pore sizes that are
large and noticeable. If this is your
choice of treatment, then a series of
these peels are necessary to give the
right results.
Increasing your fluid intake will
also help to keep the skin hydrated
and especially after a work-out at
the gym.
Eat foods rich in Omega 3 essential
fatty acids and antioxidants, which
can help to reverse damage done to
your skin over the winter and summer months. Eating healthy can help
to boost the skin’s immune system,
resulting in a healthy and glowing
complexion.
For the body exfoliation, using
grains like walnut husk, almond meal,
sand, sea salt, sugar and oatmeal
are excellent in preventing build up
of dry, ashy skin during the winter.
Body care formulas utilizing oils and
butters are a great way of improving
the texture, tone and hydration of
the skin.
So enjoy soft, healthy, hydrated
skin all winter long by using some or
all of the above tips. Obsidian skin
care has gone Certified Organic and
has a complete line of skin and body
care products to keep your skin hydrated all winter long.
Jean Pierre is a Registered Nurse and an ex-
perienced Aesthetician. She has dedicated her
professional life to the pursuit of excellence in
specialized skin care products and spa service.
She is the president and creator of the Obsidian
Skin Care System and founder of the popular
Jean Pierre Aesthetics and Spa. A community
leader and inspirational entrepreneur, Jean
Pierre, has been cited for numerous awards
including the African Canadian Achievement
Award for Business, The Toronto Sun’s Woman
on the Move Award and the Harry Jerome Award
for Excellence in Business.
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until potatoes and broccoli are very tender, stirring once halfway through cooking. Meanwhile,
preheat broiler and set oven rack 6 inches from
source of heat. Drain vegetables in colander set
over large bowl, reserving ¼ cup vegetable cooking liquid. Return vegetables to saucepan. With
potato masher or slotted spoon, coarsely mash
vegetables, adding some reserved cooking liquid if
mixture seems dry. Stir in nutmeg, ¼ cup Parmesan, ½ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. In
shallow, broiler-safe 1- to 1 ½-quart baking dish,
spread vegetable mixture; sprinkle with remaining Parmesan. Place dish in oven and broil 2 to 3
minutes or until Parmesan is browned. Serves: 8.
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Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the
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knife, cut a horizontal slit through the entire pork
loin and open like a book. Season the inside of the
pork with ¼ teaspoon each salt and pepper, then
top with the apple mixture. Fold the pork back
up and tie with kitchen twine, spacing each tie
about 1 ½ inches apart. Season the pork with ½
teaspoon each salt and coarsely ground pepper,
then rub with the coriander-garlic mixture. Nestle
the pork among the vegetables and roast until a
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