Mona students protest

Mon, April 30, 2012 - 11:30 AM

STUDENTS at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus who were barred from taking exams because they hadn’t paid tuition fees, this morning turned their protests up another notch, when they turned over desks and chairs and ordered legitimate students sitting exams out of exam rooms.

The protesters, who were peacefully demonstrating outside the administration building earlier this morning, soon got aggressive, and insisted that if they couldn’t sit exams, no one else could.

Some were sprawled out on desks, others raised such a ruckus that the police had to be called in.

UWI officials insist that they have for months given the students room for dialogue, and those who owe upwards of $30,000 would not be allowed to sit the exams.

More than six exams were postponed. (Jamaica Observer)

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Posted by Kay-rani Rosita 1 year ago: No tuition fees, no exams, end off.

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Posted by Frank Husbands 1 year ago: $30,000.00 Jamaican is just around $500.00.USD A student in Barbados would have simply gone and pay that and sit their exam.

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Posted by Catheine Rock 1 year ago: This behaviour is selfish and disgusting. Why should students who have done the right thing be forced to resit exams because of this. Surely the police should have been there to monitor the protesters.

It's simple, if you don't pay you don't get to stay. Nothing in life is free. You are supposed to be the leaders of the future conducting yourself so inappropriately.

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Posted by Michelle Quintyne 1 year ago: I myself dont understand why the fuss? What are the really protesting about though?

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Posted by vivij charlie 1 year ago: That's just ridiculous, they apparently have already gotten tuition for free. What's wrong with people today.

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Posted by Bim Bum 1 year ago: My grand-daughter was taking exams at Mona, in all this ruckus!
It left her deeply disturbed, and she could not continue.
She was in fear for her LIFE, not knowing what exactly was going on, when the terrorists burst into the room...would gunfire be next, she wondered??

Yes, I used the word Terrorist, because their intention was to scare the hell outa other people
-AND they succeeded in doing so!

I join other commentators in deploring this most un-civil act that could only happen in lawless Jamaica,
where it would seem that even MONA students are not much evolved intellectually past those living in Spanish Town!

Left to me, every one of them who resorted to violence
(i.e. wrecking/overturning of desks and other furniture)
would be barred and disqualified from further education at that institution!
Why? Because if THAT is your level of "attitude"
we sure don't want or need YOU around there!