Inspector Phillip Smith (second left) speaks to Frank Hewetson (left), Greenpeace International coordinator, as they police yesterday tried to get the environmental activists to relocate from the entrance of the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston, where the International Seabed Authority (ISA) annual meeting was under way. The Jamaica Environment Trust and representatives of other civil society groups also joined the protest against deep-sea mining.

Rudolph Brown/Photographer

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