University of the West Indies (UWI)

  • May 3, 2017
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    Robert Bermudez confirmed as The UWI’s 6th Chancellor

    The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is pleased to announce that Mr. Robert Bermudez has been appointed as its 6th Chancellor. The appointment came after members of the University Council accepted the recommendation of the Search Committee for the Chancellor at the Council’s annual business meeting, held on Thursday, April 27, 2017 at The UWI Cave Hill Campus…

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  • April 9, 2014
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    Shine bright

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The diversity of the student body across the campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reflects that of the Caribbean population itself. Therefore, notwithstanding the growing segment of students coming from outside of the region, Caribbean students alone provide the multicultural mixture that many universities around the world try to emulate. The reason for…

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  • March 14, 2014
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    Health authority chairman: UWI statement confusing

    PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, Express -The statement issued by The University of the West Indies (UWI) in defence of the doctor and consultant was confusing, says chairman of the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) Dr Shehenaz Mohammed. “I’m surprised that they can draw a conclusion without any discussions with us and I’m even more surprised that anyone…

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  • October 4, 2013
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    Distinguished Lecture By AMBASSADOR IRWIN LaROCQUE SECRETARY-GENERAL Caribbean Community On the status of the Regional Integration Process and Vision for the Future of CARICOM   Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 3 October 2013

    I am honoured to be here with you this afternoon at the invitation of Professor Sankat to deliver this lecture and begin the series of Distinguished Lectures on our integration movement.  It is a discourse that is much needed and if my understanding is correct, I look forward to hearing from some of the Region’s iconic figures on this theme.…

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  • October 4, 2013
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    Caribbean academic wants greater role tertiary education in ACP economic growth

    BRUSSELS, CMC – Prominent academic and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor E. Nigel Harris has stressed the role of tertiary education as an engine for economic growth in developing countries, while calling for deeper collaboration across African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions in the process. In an interview to launch the ACP Secretariat’s “One-on-One” YouTube series,…

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  • July 11, 2013
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    UWI welcoming sponsorship for Nelson Mandela Freedom Park

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Nelson Mandela Freedom Park located at University Drive, Cave Hill, which will separate the traditional and newer parts of the Cave Hill Campus, will house a gazebo, a bar, washrooms, relaxation areas and a number of other gazebos will be spread across the landscape. Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI Cave Hill Campus Sir…

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  • February 7, 2013
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    On funding UWI

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – Whichever of the two main parties is eventually successful in forming the next governing administration on February 22, after the current ostensibly garish and noisy electoral campaign, will have a legacy of economic troubles left on its agenda for immediate treatment. One of these, we submit, is the substantial debt currently owed to the University of…

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  • January 29, 2013
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    EDITORIAL – New front in UWI debate

    KINGSTON, Jamaica – We are grateful to Professor Hubert Devonish for his forthright, clear and simple enunciation of this basic fact. “The University of the West Indies (UWI), whatever the high-minded motives behind its establishment, is now a business,” he wrote in this newspaper on Sunday. Professor Devonish is a linguist at the UWI's Mona, Jamaica, campus. He made the…

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  • July 7, 2011
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    Brathwaite for UWI post

    FORMER DIRECTOR GENERAL of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Dr Chelston Brathwaite, recently joined the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies as interim director of the School of Agriculture. In this new capacity, Brathwaite will assist the university in defining a new role for the school in supporting agricultural development in the Caribbean. He…

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  • Photo of UWI deputy principal to receive CARICOM women’s award
    June 27, 2011
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    UWI deputy principal to receive CARICOM women’s award

    University of the West Indies deputy principal and gender professor Dr Violet Eudine Barriteau will receive the Caricom Triennial Award for Women for her remarkable contribution to the field of gender and development and her role as “a powerful exemplar of self-respect, self- discipline, vision and leadership”. The Triennial Award for Women was introduced in 1983 to recognise and honour…

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