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Jane Andres

Farm worker struggles to get permanent resident status

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Jermaine Clarke enjoyed a day trip to Runaway Bay with his 13-year-old son Eric. (Photo supplied)
It never gets easier. There is a price to be paid for families that are separated for eight months of the year. Three of those seasonal workers will not return home, having died from COVID-19 contracted while working on farms in other areas of … [Read more...] about Farm worker struggles to get permanent resident status

One migrant worker’s experience when he arrived here in Niagara

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Kyon Dunkley on drums, Jermaine Clarke, Delroy Myrie, Courtney Mitchell, Winston Green, Claudeen Bell, Paul Chambers and Steve Samuels at a Cornerstone Community Church concert held a few years ago. (Photo submitted) 
There has been much in the news lately regarding the systemic racism which most of us who have grown up in a white dominated culture … [Read more...] about One migrant worker’s experience when he arrived here in Niagara

Everything good so far

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Jane Andres, Delroy and Joan Castella and Nate Dirks at Southridge Vineland. (Photo supplied)
This year marks a 15-year anniversary celebrating treasured friendships with our Jamaican neighbours. It was in spring 2005 that I was invited to assist with the music at a little church service for Caribbean farm workers. The CWOP  (Caribbean … [Read more...] about Everything good so far