LOCAL NEWS FEATURES

By RON FANFAIR Not one to show her feelings easily, Dr. Njoki Wane was very emotional when past and present students gathered last June to celebrate the distinguished educator who …

By RON FANFAIR Minutes after breaking the news on television that the National Hockey League (NHL) was shutting down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kevin Weekes was fielding calls asking …

By RON FANFAIR In becoming Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU) sixth Chancellor, Donette Chin-Loy Chang has the distinct honour of joining her husband, the late G. Raymond Chang, as the first …

By RON FANFAIR Arnold Auguste doesn’t usually take chances. His two biggest risks, however, have paid off handsomely. Without family to lean on, Auguste came to Toronto from Trinidad & …

By RON FANFAIR The Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCAD U) was already on Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel’s radar when a recruiter contacted her last fall about an opening …

By RON FANFAIR Pamela Appelt, Canada’s first Black female Citizenship Court Judge in 1987, has been appointed to the Order of Canada in the Officer category. Officers are appointed for …

By RON FANFAIR Canada was expected to be a pit stop for Roy Williams when he left Jamaica in 1951 to pursue higher education. He says the plan was to …

By RON FANFAIR Just the other day, Dr. Krissy Doyle-Thomas was reminiscing with her sisters about the times when she lined up her stuffed animals on the bed and, with …

By RON FANFAIR Most students in the Caribbean aspire to pursue post-secondary education, the majority of them at the 76-year-old University of the West Indies (UWI) whose alumni serve at …

By RON FANFAIR Told by a guidance counsellor she was not good enough to attend university, Marva Wisdom cried bitterly. Once the crying stopped, she vowed that was the last …