While Maurice Tomlinson grapples with threats on his safety and security, the University of Technology's (UTech) administration must assure that students are not denied a quality academic experience.
UTech may very well have to hire an interim lecturer because the institution cannot guarantee Mr Tomlinson's safety.
The story of Maurice Tomlinson, a lecturer at the University of Technology (UTech), reported by this newspaper yesterday, reverberates with the insensitivity of supposed students of the law and at the same time highlights the mediaeval attitude that still largely prevails in Jamaica towards gays.
And having declared her principled position on the rights of gays, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller should add her voice to the protection of Mr Tomlinson's rights under the Constitution of Jamaica.
Maurice Tomlinson is an attorney. He also teaches law at UTech. He came into public notice more recently when it was reported in Canada that he had married his male partner.
Stuart Milk, along with three other LGBT human rights leaders, continued the international conversation about global LGBT human rights with a panel of representatives of the House of Lords late Tuesday night (January 24) in London.
Milk, the openly gay nephew of slain San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and founder of the Harvey B. Milk Foundation, was joined by Renato Sabbadini, secretary general of the International Lesbian and Gay Association; Emma Reed, head of the LGBT Equality, U.K. Government Equalities Office; and David Wardrop, chairman of the Westminster Branch of the United Nations Association.
by Garth Rattray
The social network lit up during the excitement generated by the results phase of the recent general election. What caught my interest, however, was that cyberspace was peppered with angry/distraught Jamaicans expressing their wish to run away to some foreign land because the leader of the People's National Party (PNP) was sober and honest enough to express her willingness to allow parliamentarians - after consultation with their constituents - to engage in a conscience vote on the matter of the law against buggery. Continue reading
