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The graphic on the book cover, a silhouette of a young male overlaid with stark, bold lettering that reads ‘MALES’, is as intriguing as the data it presents about the reality of young men’s lives in Jamaica and their attitudes to and challenges in achieving tertiary education.
Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art-leisure/20201004/jcan-males-speak...
Eighteen women have been elected to Parliament. Compared to 2019, this is a 50 per cent increase of women in the Lower House. This comes at a time of historic and drastic decline in citizen participation in the electoral process; a narrowing of representativeness across parties; and continuing economic and health crises, including from COVID-19.
For more information: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20200913/maziki-thame-and-linne...
Parliament is not the Church. It is a place where representatives of the people are supposed to represent the people.
Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20190216/maziki-thame-deny...
Our 7 faculties and 12 professional schools offer more than 200 programmes to some 18,000 graduate, undergraduate and continuing studies students.
The UWI, Mona ranks first in Jamaica among accredited tertiary-level programmes. In 2012, the University was again one of Jamaica’s Top 100 Employers.
