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• Teenager wants to affect health of women in developing countries

  

  Habiba Cooper-Diallo’s Sweet 16 birthday was different from most young girls coming of age celebration.

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• Leonard Braithwaite was a true trailblazer

• Victoria Mutual celebrates Jamaica 50 with big savings

• Archbishop shares her story, insights in new book

• Program provides resources, equipment to Jamaican schools

• Scarborough Hospital launches new sickle cell crisis protocol

• Health care organization lauded for its work in Jamaica

• Awards recognize successful Black ‘Men of Honour’

• T&T group to hold a business expo in Etobicoke

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Sports

• Ravin Moorthy is Cricket Canada’s newest president

  

  The deciding factor in Ravin Moorthy succeeding Ranjit Saini as Cricket Canada’s new president may never be known. With each candidate securing nine votes, it was up to the delegates from the nine provinces to come up with a tiebreaker because there is no mechanism in the constitution that addresses the breaking of a deadlock.

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• Newfoundland club latest to join Cricket Canada

• Mexico knocks Canada men’s soccer team out of Olympics

• Dighton wants his cricketers to occupy the crease

• Former teammates recount fond memories of Clem Neblett

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Editorial

• OAS the hot button issue

  Unless you turned 54 last Saturday, you have missed out on being able to apply for Old Age Security (OAS) at age 65. Under a plan announced by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in last week’s budget, anyone now 53 and younger will not be eligible to receive OAS until age 67.

  05.04.12

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• Law, social code killed Florida teen

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• Is Casino a solution?

• Robocalls issue will blow over

• Time for subways

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Caribbean News

• Jamaica adopting new procedures to reduce police fatalities

  KINGSTON, Jamaica: Under pressure for the recent spike in fatal shootings, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the country’s five representative police groups will be adopting several new procedures designed to lessen the number of fatal incidents during operations.

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• U.S. Congress confirms new Ambassador to Eastern Caribbean

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International News

• NAACP leaders demand justice for Trayvon Martin

  Thousands of activists from across the United States are expected to join the NAACP and other civil rights leaders in Sanford, Florida on Saturday, March 31 to honour the memory of Trayvon Martin and to move the national conversation on race from anger to answers.

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• Trayvon’s alleged killer may not face hate crime charges: lawyer

• The truth about Florida’s “Stand your Ground” law

• True Blue Weekend in Florida March 16-18

• St. Kitts & Nevis ambassador to meet with nationals in Houston, Texas this weekend

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Entertainment

• Soca artist Destra Garcia takes hardship, controversy in stride

  

  For the most part, entertainers have erratic schedules that can prevent them from pursuing interests and, though in good spirits and engaging, Trinidad & Tobago’s high-energy soca artist, Destra Garcia, was understandably subdued when she arrived in Toronto last Good Friday for a series of events that included a photo shoot, a CD signing and an appearance at the Polson Pier’s Fire Fete.

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• Passion Play brings story of Jesus to life

• Grammy a pleasant surprise for Toronto ‘techie’

• Melanie Fiona wins a Juno to add to her two Grammys

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Opinion

• Echoes of Ethiopia in Caribbean memories

  

  What memories and historical parallels might Ethiopian Orthodox Rabbi Sharon Shalom, visiting from Israel, stir among Caribbean peoples in Toronto? For one thing, the old people usually referred more to the country as ‘Abyssinia’ than ‘Ethiopia’.

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