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With a rise in COVID-19 cases at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and no yield to calls for the release of some low-risk inmates, Carla Gullotta, president of Stand Up For Jamaica, is urging reluctant inmates and correctional officers to...

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The Zong Massacre (1781)

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