Canadian rapper Kardinal Offishall, born Jason Harrow, will likely be amongst seven honourees on the 2025 College of West Indies (UWI) Toronto Profit Awards, organisers have introduced.
The sixteenth annual night of recognition in assist of scholarships for Caribbean college students will happen on Saturday April 26, 2025 on the Ritz-Carlton Resort, 181 Wellington Road, Toronto at 5:30pm EST.
This 12 months’s theme, Bridging the Hole, displays the UWI’s unwavering promise to Caribbean college students and their communities, organisers mentioned.
“It is a proud evening for the Caribbean diaspora and it does extra than simply bridge gaps; it builds and strengthens communities, uniting us in a shared imaginative and prescient of schooling, empowerment, and recognition of leaders and mentors who information the best way ahead,” says Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, UWI Toronto Profit Awards Co-Patron.
The highly-anticipated occasion cultivates a high-profile visitor checklist of company executives, public personalities and neighborhood members dedicated to giving again to the Caribbean.
Harrow, a multi-platinum rapper and producer who was born in Toronto to Jamaican dad and mom, would be the recipient of the Luminary Award.
The opposite 2025 honorees are:
G Raymond Chang Award: Myron Garron and Mrs Berna Garron – Canadian philanthropists, who’ve contributed hundreds of thousands to paediatric well being and Canadian healthcare establishments;
Chancellor’s Award: Onyx Initiative – a non-profit organisation based by Wayne and Nigela Purboo designed to increase the recruitment pipeline and shut the systemic hole within the hiring, retention and promotion of black school and college college students, and up to date graduates for roles in company Canada
Vice Chancellor’s Award:
– Dr Mark Beckles, Group Funding Initiatives – RBC Royal Financial institution, President and CEO of the Nelson Mandela Kids’s Fund (Canada);
– Patricia DeGuire – Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Fee, co-founder of the Canadian Affiliation of Black Attorneys and the Black Legislation College students’ Affiliation of Canada;
– Leslie Woo, CEO at CivicAction, Founding father of shebuildscities.org.
Headlining the evening’s leisure is The Voice (season 5) winner, Jamaican singer-songwriter Tessanne Chin, who was additionally a UWI Toronto Profit Luminary Honouree in 2014. Additionally performing are Thunder Dome Sounds that includes Eddie Bullen, Quincy Bullen, Tré-Michael Bullen and Belinda Brady, together with saxophonist Jesse Ryan.
The UWI Toronto Profit Awards has awarded greater than 1,000 scholarships to Caribbean college students. For the sixteenth consecutive 12 months, Scotiabank is the lead chair and sponsor. Main sponsors for this 12 months’s occasion are Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, Sprott Inc, the Hibbert Household Basis, BDO and the Raymond Chang Basis.
The patrons of the UWI Toronto Profit Awards are Dr Donette Chin-Loy Chang, Kevin Hibbert and Ann-Marie Hibbert, all passionate supporters of upper schooling and the UWI Pupil Scholarship Fund.
