Hugh Shearer October 1968 when his government banned the historian, Walter Rodney from re-entering the country. On 16 October a series of riots, known as the Rodney Riots broke out, after peaceful protest by students from the University of the West Indies campus at Mona, was suppressed by police; rioting spreading throughout Kingston. Shearer stood by the ban claiming that Rodney was a danger to Jamaica, citing his socialist ties, trips to Cuba and the USSR, as well as his radical Black nationalism. Shearer was generally uncomfortable with notions of pan-Africanism or militant black nationalism. He was also insecure about the stability
Pakistani diaspora in the Caribbean Pakistani diaspora in the Caribbean There is a visible albeit very minor expatriate community of Pakistanis in the Caribbean. Pakistani migrants can be found and spread out in small pockets along the various island-states making up the Caribbean region. They are part of the much larger Pakistani community in North America, which includes Pakistani Americans and Pakistani Canadians. Muslim missionaries from Pakistan have historically travelled to the Caribbean to revive Muslim communities. There are up to 1,000 Pakistani medical students in Cuba. The vast majority of them have come through scholarships under a program between the Cuban government and the