Welcome to Extra N.A. Online! Tuesday September 7, 2010 Homepage    |    News    |    Archives    |    Advertise    |    Contact Us    |    NEWS Caribbean Diaspora Forum in Canada Francine Buchner photos - From Left: Caribbean High Commisioner’s, Evadne Coye (Jamaica), Rajnarine Singh (Guyana), E.E. Greaves (Barbados), Camille Robinson-Regis (Trinidad and Tobago), Michael Smith (Bahamas) and Brendon C. Browne (Eastern Caribbean States) at the first-ever Caricom Diaspora Public Forum last Friday in Toronto. Audience members who sat in on the first ever Caribbean diaspora forum in Canada, at the University of Toronto auditorium last week pressed their reps on a range of issues including migration and the true status of Caribbean /Canada relations. READ FULL STORY MOVING ON: CRNM boss quits The Director General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Ambassador Henry Gill, has resigned effective June 30. READ FULL STORY CRNM losing autonomy Trade-negotiating body to be absorbed by Caricom secretariat Although insistent that it will happen, the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) economy ministers are yet to determine precisely how the region’s hitherto autonomous trade-negotiating unit will be absorbed into the grouping’s Guyana-based secretariat. READ FULL STORY More Olympians to join Usain Bolt in Toronto for track event Several Olympians will join the “world’s greatest athlete” Usian Bolt in Toronto in June for the inaugural Festival of Excellence at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Centre. READ FULL STORY Date for Canada talks to be decided in one month Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Ken Baugh says within another month the region will decide on a date as to when talks will begin on the free trade agreement with Canada. READ FULL STORY Harry Jerome has been an inspiration to youth A wide cross section of the Canadian community, which attended the recently concluded Harry Jerome Awards, heard several speakers including Michael Ignatieff Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada describe Harry Jerome as an inspiration to youth. READ FULL STORY African-American Pullman porters to be honoured They worked long hours doing often menial labour for meager pay on America’s railroads, and paved the way for the civil rights movement in the process. READ FULL STORY UN: forced labourers losing $21 billion a year The United Nations says forced labour is costing $21 billion a year to children trapped in sweatshops, migrants picking fruit and building homes, and illegal immigrants indebted to their smugglers. READ FULL STORY Arva Rice to lead New York Urban League Community service leader Arva Rice, was last week introduced as the new president and CEO of the New York Urban League. READ FULL STORY ChinaBlak, out to touch the world That bold statement is how Reverse Spin recording artist ChinaBlak feels about the current state of rap music. Equal parts spit-fire rapper and soulful singer. READ FULL STORY CLICK HERE TO READ OUR PRINTED ISSUE ADVERTISEMENT - PLACE YOUR AD HERE © 2006-2010, Gleaner Extra NA, All Rights Reserved.