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Summary: With placards in hand, students at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus took on UWI administrators on Monday April 30, to protest against the barring of scores of students from exams for monies owed to the university. It has been reported that they disrupted exams in progress, overturning desks and chairs and ripping up the examination papers of fully registered students sitting exams. In the aftermath, The Gleaner spoke to UWI's registrar and the President of the Guild of Students following a meeting to decide the affected students' fate.

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Summary: We have come a long way since the civil rights uproar in the 1960's. Up until then, white folks were not afraid of openly and publicly denouncing black people as genetically inferior humans. It's intriguing to consider then that since the 1960's, the only thing that has changed is how society perceives racism. It seriously questions the notion that racism is taught. In this post, I will attempt to demonstrate that the propensity for racism is intrinsic to human nature. That is why even after society has successfully demonized this behaviour, it will never truly go away.

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Summary: There is a distinct pain that accompanies murder that enters the home. Your ENTIRE outlook on life is different, your ideals of 'innocence' are shattered, and if you are unfortunate, your opinion of 'justice' is marred. That is what happened to me when my Stepdad & Stepbrother were murdered years ago. My perception of the world was forever jaded & the lack of injustice within the system killed my belief in its reliability. NOW, years later, I stand for TRAYVON MARTIN and seek justice for him, & the reality he represents for SO MANY HOUSEHOLDS. Murdered at 17 for seeming 'suspicious' when he was the one being STALKED!

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Summary: On August 7, 1865, Jourdon Anderson, a former slave of Colonel P.H. Anderson, respoded to his former master's request to return to work on the farm for a wage.

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Summary: Tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed about 300,000 people. President Michel Martelly in a report from earlier this week said that 800,000 Haitians are living without electricity, 500,000 can’t read or write, and 8 out 10 live on less than $2 a day. Though half of the rubble has been cleared and reconstruction has begun, Haiti has a long way to go in its recovery effort.

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Summary: "The U.S. Marine Corps has launched an investigation into a video that purports to show American Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban members...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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Summary: A public relation company came to Jamaica back in the late 70’s and performed an experiment, they invited some ladies to look at two sets of brassieres, one set marked made in Jamaica and the other set marked made in the United States. All the individuals taking part came to the same unanimous decision that the Bras marked made in the United States was of better quality, hands down, they went into details, showing superior stitching work, the professional quality of the bras that was made in the United States as oppose to those made in Jamaica, which they said was poor workmanship and lower quality, not good value for money and will not last long.

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Summary: The most obvious problem with this chart, as correctly identified by Neven Mrgan, is that it doesn’t provide a visual correlation between the population and wealth distributions. In fact, it doesn’t provide a visual display of the population distribution at all.

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Summary: Global protests against economic injustice gripped cities over the weekend, predominantly on Saturday, October 15. Solidarity with Spain's "Indignants" and New York's "Occupy Wall Street" protesters brought demonstrations over the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few and the worldwide economic crisis to cities from Hong Kong to Tulsa. Hundreds of thousands joined the mostly peaceful demonstrations, although arrests were made in many cities, and clashes with police in Rome became particularly violent. The movement shows no signs of slowing. Gathered here are images from cities large and small. -- Lane Turner (40 photos total)

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Summary: Traveling along Marcus Garvey Drive one will notice a park -- maintained by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) -- a gas station, a gully with stagnant water, from which sewage fumes haunt the people residing in the informal community of 2 Marcus Garvey Drive, known to them as Coconut Walk. As the vision for downtown Kingston's redevelopment inches its way to becoming a reality, the city's residents have expressed concern about their inclusion in the process

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Summary: A scantily-clad, plus-sized female visitor to Barbados was ridiculed a spectacle today in Bridgetown for a mob of camera-toting people, causing rumours to stir by a confused public that she after which she allegedly broke down in tears and had to be police-escorted away from the scene. In reality, the joke was on us, because she apparently LOVED it.

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Summary: super high JPS bill. JPS me na pay it a blood clat. outrageous JPS bill

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Summary: Fellow Jamaicans! Lets keep the Anti-JPS protest going. We have all faced these RIDICULOUSLY high electricity bills in relative silence for much TOO LONG and it is only getting worse. It’s full time to let those at the top know we are NOT happy!

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Summary: To be honest aside from highlighting the racist nature of Mr. Starkey’s comment I’m not going to say much more. Below are two videos: the first is Mr. Starkey’s appearance on UK programme “Newsnight” and the second is a response to that appearance by a UK comedian (who I’d not heard of before this) called Nabil Abdul Rashid.

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Summary: I just need to say this..

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Summary: I learnt of the London riots just days ago. I didn’t know it has escalated to this level where residents/thugs were looting stores and burning buildings. Watching some of the videos reminded me of the Tivoli incursion somehow. I decided to share some of the most powerful videos from YouTube.

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Summary: If you think there was a miscarriage of justice, please add your name to the online petition to President Barack Obama to clear Marcus Garvey's name of the felony conviction on one count of mail fraud and to restore the "good name of Marcus Garvey."