second undergraduate degree, an honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance which included formal training in singing and acting. Describing his journey as an artiste in Canada as varied, Reid is thankful that he has been fortunate to have consistent work, something that is a struggle for professional theatre artistes. “There’s no guarantee of work, you audition for shows over and over hoping to fill your year with multiple contracts because we’re all self-employed.” SHIFTED FOCUS When he started at Sheridan College, he wanted to be a triple threat — actor, singer and dancer — and to have lead roles, but that perspective soon changed. “Right out of school, I was in the ensemble for most of my contracts, which I’m still very happy to be in, but I’ve sort of let go of the dream of having lead roles or principal roles and I shifted my focus to being an ensemble member and working towards becoming a choreographer and director.” Now in his fifth season at the Shaw Festival, Reid is a member of the ensemble of ‘Brigadoon’ and has also been in ‘Damn Yankees’ in which he plays Henry and the assistant choreographer in ‘Chitra’, ‘Holiday Inn’, ‘Grand Hotel’, and ‘The Magician’s Nephew’. Elsewhere he has been Lance Corporal Harold Dawson in‘A Few Good Men’, Drayton Entertainment; Jamal in ‘Escape to Margaritaville’, Theatre Calgary; Beadle in ‘Sweeney Todd’, Talk Is Free Theatre; David Heard in ‘Choir Boy’, Canadian Stage; ‘The Colour Purple’, the Canadian regional première, Neptune Theatre; ‘A Christmas Carol’, Ross Petty Productions; ‘Sousatzka’, the world première, Elgin Theatre; choreographer, ‘Into the Woods’, Talk Is Free Theatre; movement director, ‘Blackout’, The Musical Stage Company. His film and television credit includes being Milo Strange on ‘Murdoch Mysteries’, CBC. In 2022, his role in‘Choir Boy’was the beginning of a full year of having principal roles which was very surprising to him. “It just sort of happened that way so that was a fairly recent shift or new discovery in my career journey,” said Reid. He has copped four more principal parts since then, including in ‘Brigadoon’, which closes on December 23. The next day he will be on a flight home to Jamaica just in time for Christmas — to be with family and to vegetate at the end of a busy year. In 2024, Reid will make his début at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, the largest classical repertory theatre company in North America, in the musical, ‘La Cage Aux Folles’, and the children’s show, ‘Wendy and Peter Pan’. THE WEEKLY GLEANER | DECEMBER 11, 2023 - DECEMBER 17, 2023 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | NEWS 21 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF JAMAICA CLAIM NO. SU2023CV01259 BETWEEN CHARLES ROY HENRY CLAIMANT A N D CLOVERLIN GORDON LIGHTBOURNE 1st DEFENDANT AND BALFOUR LORENZO GORDON 2nd DEFENDANT AND CONWAY LIGHTBOURNE 3rd DEFENDANT TO: CLOVERLIN GORDON LIGHTBOURNE, BALFOUR LORENZO GORDON AND CONWAY LIGHTBOURNE TAKE NOTICE that by way of a Fixed Date Claim Form dated April 19, 2023 and an Affidavit of Urgency of Charles Roy Henry dated April 12, 2023 and filed in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica on April 19, 2023, the Claimant, CHARLES ROY HENRY of 79 Ridley Road, Saint Catherine, Ontario, Canada L2S4B6 claims against you the Defendants, CLOVERLIN GORDON LIGHTBOURNE, BALFOUR LORENZO GORDON and CONWAY LIGHTBOURNE, for the following orders: (i) A Declaration that the Claimant has not been dispossessed by the Defendants of his interest in ALL THAT parcel of land part of RETREAT in the parish of ST. MARY being the Lot numbered FOUR on the Plan of part of Retreat aforesaid deposited in the Office of Titles on the 25 day of October, 1963 of the shape and dimensions and butting as appears by the said plan and being the land comprised in Certificate of Title registered at Volume 1078 Folio 83 of the Register Book of Titles (hereinafter referred to as “the said land”). (ii) A Penn anent Injunction prohibiting and restraining the Registrar of Titles from cancelling the Claimant’s certificate of title and issuing a new certificate of title to the Defendants regarding the said land. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the adjourned First Hearing of the said Fixed Date Claim Form filed on April 19, 2023 will take place on December 4, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that by way of a Notice of Application for Court Orders dated April 19, 2023 and the aforementioned Affidavit of Urgency of Charles Roy Henry dated April 12, 2023 and filed in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica on April 19, 2023, the Claimant applied for an interim injunction restraining the Registrar of Titles from cancelling his certificate of title and issuing a new certificate to you regarding the said land. The said interim injunction was granted by the Court on May 3, 2023 and expired on June 19, 2023. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that by way of a Notice of Application for Court Orders dated June 26, 2023 and a Supplemental Affidavit of Urgency of Charles Roy Henry dated June 21, 2023 and an Amended Notice of Application for Court Orders dated June 26, 2023 and a Supplemental Affidavit of Garfield Haisley alt filed in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica on June 29, 2023, the Claimant applied for a new interim injunction restraining the Registrar of Titles from cancelling his certificate of title and issuing a new certificate to you regarding the said land and for an order for substituted service permitting him to dispense with personal service on you of the Fixed Date Claim For and all other processes and that same shall be effected by advertising Notice of Proceedings in the online Daily Gleaner newspaper. The said Notice of Application for Court Orders and Amended Notice of Application for Court Orders were heard by Nembhard J. on July 18, 2023 and the order for substituted service was granted along with a new interim injunction to last until September 25, 2023 and an inter partes hearing of the said Notice of Application for Court Orders dated June 26, 2023 to be heard on the said September 25, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard. TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that by way of a Notice of Application for Court Orders dated September 19, 2023 and Affidavit of Garfield Haisley both filed in the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica on September 19. 2023, the Claimant applied for the extension of the interim injunction granted on July 18, 2023, the extension of the validity of the Fixed Date Claim Form and the variation of paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order made by Nembhard J. on July 18, 2023. The said Notice of Application for Court Orders was heard by the Court on September 25, 2023 and the interim injunction was extended to January 10, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. for a further hearing to be attended by all parties for one ( l) hour or as soon thereafter as the parties can be heard, the validity of the Fixed Date Claim Form filed on April 19, 2023 was extended for six (6) months from October 19, 2023, paragraph 4 of the order of Nembhard J. dated July 18, 2023 was varied such that service on you is to be effected by advertising Notice of Proceedings once daily in the online North American Gleaner newspaper and paragraph 5 of the order of Nembhard J. dated July 18, 2023 was varied such that the time for you to file an Acknowledgment of Service and Affidavit(s) in response to the claim is now twenty-eight (28) days and fifty-six (56) days respectively from the date of the publishing of the Notice of Proceedings in the oil line North American Gleaner newspaper at the registry of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Jamaica, King Street, Kingston and that in default of your so doing the Claimant will be entitled to apply to have judgment entered against you. Dated the 26th day of October 2023 T. Bailey REGISTRAR N.B It is requested that attention be drawn to this Notice by anyone knowing the whereabouts of the person to whom it is addressed. FILED by PAGE & HAISLEY of Shop 18 Winchester Business Centre, 15 Hope Road, Kingston 10, telephone number (876) 929-0620, email garfieldhaisley@yahoo.com, Attorneys-at-Law for and on behalf of the Claimant herein. Neil Armstrong/Gleaner Writer TORONTO: A JAMAICAN Canadian has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour for outstanding achievement. MARVA WISDOM, a senior equity and leadership practitioner, accepted the honour acknowledging her ‘teams’ or ‘the many people who have helped along the way’ as responsible for her success. Wisdom is one of 26 new appointees for the year 2022 announced by outgoing Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell. The new lieutenant governor, Edith Dumont, will bestow the Order of Ontario to the new appointees in a ceremony on November 27. The Order of Ontario recognises exceptional leaders from diverse fields of endeavour whose impact and lasting legacy have played an important role in building a stronger province, country and world, notes the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. “As Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, I am proud to recognise the Order’s 2022 appointees. These remarkable Ontarians demonstrate outstanding merit and excellence in many diverse disciplines, including the arts, science, education, sports, and human rights. In reflecting the best of Ontario, they inspire the best in ourselves,” said Dowdeswell. Wisdom said she was overwhelmed, grateful and surprised at the recognition. She recalls that when she was informed via a telephone call, she initially thought it was an offer to sit on the awards committee for volunteers across the province, a body she once served on for a few years. She said she was ready to say ‘no’ given her several other obligations, but instead was gobsmacked by the news. Originally from Red Ground, St Catherine, in Jamaica she attended St Jago High School for one year, and migrated to Canada in 1974 with three of her siblings and father, Edward, to join their mother, Eva Bailey, who had migrated to Canada as a domestic worker when immigration opened up under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. “My roots as a Jamaican person have shaped who I am, and the work that I do is partly due to my parents’ understanding of the importance of service, and others around me. As a young kid, I was always trying to show what we contribute and how we contribute; that has been critical,” said Wisdom. She emphasised that she had been mentored and given opportunities by many individuals. She thanked her parents, whom she described as “very hard-working people who loved us unconditionally”, and her siblings, Henroy Bailey, a retired teacher; Hainsley Bailey, a project manager; Garvia Bailey, a journalist, broadcaster and Massey Fellow in Journalism at the University of Toronto; and Andrew Bailey, a prolific drummer who was born in Canada. Wisdom made special mention of her aunt, Linette Wilson, who was living in Canada and had facilitated the family’s move overseas. IMPRESSIVE LEADERS, TRAILBLAZERS Fired up by her passion for service to the community, Wisdom said she became involved in the Black Experience Project (BEP) doing significant community engagement work to ensure that the study captured the lived experiences of the community. The project started in 2011 and was released in 2017. She describes it as “a study of our people by our people, even though it was initiated by Environics Institute that has the experience in studying communities that are often not studied in a way that is from their perspective”. She had been inspired by a presentation on the contribution of immigrants to Canada by Michael Adams, president of the institute. Having once served as the vice chair of the Canadian Centre for Diversity, she confirms that the study has been widely used by the three levels of government — federal, provincial and municipal. An alumna of Centennial College and the University of Guelph, she became the founder and former president of the Guelph Black Heritage Society. A senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, she is also the co-author of the book, Collecting Courage: Joy, Pain, Freedom, Love: Anti-Black Racism in the Charitable Sector. Another Jamaican, Senator Rosemary Moodie, a 2020 appointee, will also be invested at the ceremony. “On behalf of a grateful province, congratulations to the 2022 appointees of the Order of Ontario,” said Michael Ford, minister of citizenship and multiculturalism. He added, “The Order of Ontario honours and celebrates impressive leaders and trailblazers who represent the best of our great province from a variety of sectors. Their outstanding dedication, achievements and lifetime of service have made a difference in their communities and in building a stronger Ontario.” Ontario residents may nominate a deserving individual for the 2024 Order of Ontario. The nomination deadline is March 31, 2024. Appointments to the Order are made on the recommendation of an independent advisory council based on the merit of accomplishments of nominees put forward by members of the public. Since its establishment in 1986, some 849 people have been appointed to the Order of Ontario. Marva Wisdom CONTRIBUTED Jamaica-born Marva Wisdom appointed to the Order of Ontario HOLIDAY Continued from, 17
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