Walter Rodney
The Rodney riots
The 1960s was a tumultuous period in United States and Caribbean history. Hippies, the sex revolution, Black Power and the Civil Rights movement, anti-war sentiment, it was a time of passion and principle.
Today, Time Warp reflects on the Government's ban of controversial Guyanese scholar Walter Rodney from entering Jamaica in 1968, and the student riots which that order sparked.
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Demonstrators march down King Street in the vicinity of the Supreme Court buildings, heading for Harbour Street, where they held a meeting in front of The Gleaner Company headquarters.
Students of the University of the West Indies break through a police cordon along Mona Road, St Andrew, in 1968. The cops, armed with tear gas cannisters and riot batons, are in hot pursuit.
Maxwell Sylvester Carey, People's National Party member for South Eastern Westmoreland, removes the Mace, the symbol of parliamentary authority, to protest against the Government's expulsion of Dr Walter Rodney. On the floor is Prime Minister Hugh Shearer.
