Howard Shearer receives National Honours Award

TORONTO: Retired adjudicator from the Canadian Ministry of Social Services, Mary Maria Diana Joanna Bishop, nee Keeling, is to be recognised at this year’s National Honour and Award ceremony for exemplary service in philanthropy and volunteerism, as well as significant contributions to the development of the Jamaican community in Canada.

She joins two other Jamaicans living in Canada who have been appointed to the Orders of the Societies of Honour and to the Badge of Honour. They are Howard L. Shearer and Reverend Joseph Tommy Thompson of Manitoba.