Student protesters locked down the main entrances to the University of the West Indies (UWI)St Augustine campus on January 21.
More than 100students, many of them wearingMilner Hall t-shirts, stood at the southern entrance from around 6am.
Protesterslocked the southerngate with a padlock and chain.
Campus security officers later broke the chain, but the students remained at the entrance, hindering the passage ofvehicular traffic from the Churchill Roosevelt Highway and Watts Street.
Around 9 am, asecond related protest developed at the campus' main north entrance, where a smaller group of protestingstudents again blocked incoming and outgoing traffic.
Student Guild Council representative for the Faculty of Science and Technology Derron Pereira held a bullhorn andled protesters in loudchants. The action ended around 10 am but students threatened to resume on January 22, if grades are not released.
The kernel of the students' discontent is a decision by campus administration to withhold students'Semester One grades amidst a salary negotiation impasse withthe government and the labour union representing academic staff.
Post by Trinidad Guardian.
