April 3, 2013: A media launch of the public lecture “The Impact of Coral Gardens – Lessons in Police Citizen Relations and the Way Forward”

April 17, 2013: UWI Mona's Western Jamaica Campus CARIMAC students (Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication) will host a Public Forum entitled “The Impact of Coral Gardens – Lessons in Police Citizen Relations and the Way Forward”. Guest speakers include Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, Dr. Jalani Naiah and members of the Remembering Coral Gardens Committee. See event flyer

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The University of the West Indies Mona's Western Jamaica Campus will host   “Exploring the Coral Gardens Incident – 50 Years Forward”  focusing on the massacre of adherents of the Rasatafarian faith on April 11 th and 12th 50 years ago. The event will feature  cultural presentations from the Rastafarian Village, as well as students of WJC. There will also be screening of the documentary “Bad Friday” and  testimonials. Discussions will follow the screening of the film with participation from survivors of the Coral Gardens incident and Law Enforcement. 

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The Information Session on Autism is hosted by the Jamaica Autism Support Association, and is led by Professor Maureen Samms Vaughan, Department of Child Health - the leading researcher on Autism in Jamaica.

Come hear about Autism and how you can support efforts to assist the Autistic and those impacted by Autism.

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The Department of History and Archaeology will be hosting its annual lecture series for Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) advanced level candidates on themes from Unit One and Unit Two of the CAPE History syllabus.Lectures are free of cost and an invitation is extended to all CAPE History students and teachers to attend and benefit from this yearly outreach activity of the Department. Presenters this year include, Professors Veront Satchell and Carl C. Campbell and Drs. Dave Gosse, Daive Dunkley, Matthew Smith, Enrique Okenve, Jonathan Dalby and Robert Sierakowski.This year’s lectures will be held on the following dates:
 
April 13, 2013  
Unit 1
 

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The University of the West Indies' Department of Medicine extends an invitation to their Special CPC Lecture to be delivered by Dr Michelle N Johnson of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York.

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This Forum is staged by the Caribbean Policy Research Insitute (CAPRI)

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The Department of Literatures in English hosts its annual CAPE Literatures in Englsih series for high schoolstudents. Lectures will be delivered on March 22 and April 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

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The Lecture on Ras Tafari is hosted by the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), and will be presented by Robert A Hill, Research Professor, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) who is also a visiting Research Fellow with SALISES.

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The International Writing and Public Relations Seminar is presented by Communication Analysis and Planning (CAP) students of the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communications (CARIMAC) on the Western Jamaica Campus in association with the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF). Topics include 'Writing for Tourism' and 'What gets thrown into file 13'. Presenters include Editor, Caribbean and Latin America Travel Weekly, Gayle Nagle Myers, New York radio Talk Show Host, Irwine Clare, Founder of CaribPR News, Felicia Persaud, and Communications Specialist with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Johnson Johnrose .

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The  Department of Government invites all to attend its Monthly Seminar which will focus on "Gender and Reciprocity in Online Policy Debates in the Caribbean". Presenters are, Dhanaraj Thakur, a Lecturer in Political Science and Research Methods in the Department of Government, UWI, Mona, and Shirley Ann Eaton, Lecturer and Attorney at Law. Dr Thakur's research examines the relationship between information and communications technologies, democracy and gender. Ms Eaton's presentation will look at the adequacy of the financial, legislative and regulatory framework of a post colonial state: The case of Jamaica.

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