SOCIAL media has been inundated with messages of grief and condolences since Sunday’s drowning death of schoolteacher and radio announcer Justin Dookhi at La Vega Estate in Gran Couva.

As the coun­try cel­e­brat­ed 181 years of Eman­ci­pa­tion on Au­gust 1st, there were those cus­tom­ary mes­sages that high­light­ing the po­si­tion of the African com­mu­ni­ty in the coun­try.

SHAMFA CUDJOE, Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, presented cheques totalling $142,894.64 to two National Governing Bodies (NGBs) on Wednesday.

Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) Day has been celebrated here at Pan American Games.

Celebrated on 1 August to commemorate the end of slavery in the British colonies (1838), Emancipation Day — a public holiday —