VC Receives Global Community Healer Award

The UWI Assists Dominica

Diplomacy Finds A New Home At UWI, St. Augustice

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During his inaugural address as UWI Vice Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles said that one of his main goals was to re-establish the institution as one integrated university. “Our UWI must more than ever function and operate as one; not four separate universities but one indivisible academy”. I know that this will resonate among the alumni population as this is a concern that I have often heard expressed – the need for unity, to operate as one institution, one brand. Many of you will be pleased to hear that he also said “To this restoration of the singularity of our university, my colleagues and I are committed.” Our tagline “One UWI, One Alumni Family” was developed over ten years ago to reflect this objective. I am happy that the alumni population stands ready to assist its alma mater in “uniting” so that it will become ever greater in the future. Another key priority of the Vice Chancellor is the “Globalisation of The UWI” and he will be developing partnerships in education, research and development – all imperatives to the achievement of sustainable development in the Caribbean region. Do enjoy this issue, which looks back at the news and events that took place from July – September 2015.

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CONTENTSNews From The UWI RHQ 3

Graduate Focus 5

BFUWI 6

UWIMMA News 7

Diplomacy Reigns 8

Happenings 9

A Pelican Soaring 11

UWI Grads On The Move 12

UWI Visa Card 13

Tribute 14

News 15

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A Day In History

UWI Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles was specially honoured at the US Congressional Black Caucus Conference in

Washington DC on September 17, 2015. He received the Global Community Healer Award, a humanitarian award from the Community

Healing Network (CHN) – a global grassroots movement aimed at uplifting black communities. Sir Hilary is the second recipient of the

award, the first was Maya Angelou, who was also the founding chair of CHN’s Board of Advisors. Vice-Chancellor Beckles visited the

USA from September 13 to 19 in order to strengthen the UWI’s global presence and impact. He met with the Board of Directors of the

American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) in New York, as well as American foundations and corporations

with Caribbean business interests or Caribbean markets. He also met, accompanied by Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal (Ag.) Open

Campus, Dr Luz Longsworth, Executive Director Central Office of Regional and International Affairs, Dr David Rampersad, and Honorary

Distinguished Fellow of The UWI and former Chancellor of the New York Department of Education Mr Dennis Walcott, with Chairman

H. Carl McCall, Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and other lead members of the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest

comprehensive university system in the United States to advance dialogue on new and ongoing areas of collaboration with The UWI.

He was also a guest of honour at AFUWI’s Golf and Tennis benefit, hosted at the Hampshire Country Club, in collaboration with New

York Giants Legend and Super Bowl Champion, Sean Landeta to raise scholarship funds for UWI students. He also conducted a series of

interviews with print and broadcast media in New York and Washington DC.

NEWS FROM THE UWI RHQ

In July 2015, Caribbean leaders endorsed a three-day meeting to

discuss the development of education in the region. The UWI’s

Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles made a stimulating

major presentation to regional leaders on education during their

annual summit and impressed them, highlighting the need to

leverage our knowledge regionally and internationally. They have

endorsed a three-day meeting, headed by the UWI, supported

by the CARICOM Secretariat and regional heads to discuss the

development of education in the region and the role of the UWI

in advancing this goal. Additionally, the meeting is to include

sporting organisations because the UWI Vice Chancellor outlined

the role of UWI in developing Caribbean sporting activities.

VC RECEIVES GLOBAL COMMUNITY HEALER AWARD

NEWS FROM THE UWI RHQ

Prof. Sir Hilary BecklesUWI Vice Chancellor

EMANCIPATION LECTURES FOCUS ON REPARATORY JUSTICE

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NEWS FROM THE UWI RHQ

THE UWI ASSISTS DOMINICA

THE UNIVERSITY OF the West Indies is assisting Dominica

to recover from the damage sustained by the impact of Tropical

Storm Erika. A cross-functional task force led by University Pro

Vice-Chancellor of Research, Professor Wayne Hunte, went to

the island to provide technical disaster management support. The

UWI team of experts comprising geo-technical engineers, public

health and environmental and water resource will work closely

with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency

(CDEMA). Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles wrote

Prime Minister, the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit indicating that

in addition to deploying two of The University’s top persons in

each of these fields, The UWI is prepared to lend the resources of

research fellow Jeremy Collymore who is also a former executive

director of the CDEMA. The storm, which first hit the island of

Dominica on August 27, resulted in severe flooding, landslides

and widespread damage across the island. The following day, 20

persons were confirmed dead and more have been reported

missing. Director of The UWI’s Open Campus country sites in

Dominica, Dr Francis Severin noted that both staff and students

are happy to know that “their UWI has their back”.

The traditional Emancipation Lectures, organised by the Jamaica Council of

Churches,this year had the theme reparatory justice and were delivered on July 26 in

Kingston and in Mandeville, by two outstanding Caribbean historians at the forefront of

the campaign for reparations. UWI Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, delivered

the Kingston lecture, with the title The Case for Reparations for Slavery in the Caribbean.

Professor Verene Shepherd, who heads the Jamaican National Commission on Reparations

and is Vice-Chairperson of the CARICOM Commission,delivered the Mandeville lecture,

with the title ‘From Montego Bay to Morant Bay: Making the case for Reparatory Justice’.

Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles

Prof. V. Shepherd

VIP - VERY IMPORTANT PELICAN

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Graduate Focus

Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong completed his first degree at the

University College of the West Indies that became the University

of the West Indies in 1948. After studying in England, he returned

to Jamaica and taught at UWI for about two years before migrating

to Canada in 1973. He is glad that he was able to contribute to

his alma mater. He joined McGill University 42 years ago as a full-

time staff member and founded the division of general internal

medicine at the university’s Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1984, after

a decade in Montreal where he learned to speak French, he went

to Toronto and was promoted to full professor six years later by

the University of Toronto (U of T.) and was appointed physician-

in-chief at Toronto Hospital in 1992 with particular emphasis in

the education portfolio. In 2004, he became the inaugural holder

of the Gladstone and Maisie Chang endowed chair in internal

medicine teaching at the University Health Network (UHN) and

the U of T.

Ho Ping Kong created an evidence-based curriculum in

core internal medicine programme for resident trainees and was

instrumental in redefining the role of general internists on the

clinical teaching units. He used his extensive dossier of personal

cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles

of a patient-centred approach to diagnosis and treatment and

co-authored a book with Michael Posner called The Art of

Medicine: Healing and the Limits of Technology. He acknowledges

the invaluable innovations in medical technology but believes that

physicians must learn to develop an arsenal of basic skills, actively

using the arts of seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy and advocacy

to provide a more humane and holistic form of care.

His contributions are stellar. He co-founded the Toronto

Western Hospital Centre of Excellence for Education & Practice

which bears his name and has trained thousands of physicians.

He spearheaded a program for Jamaican doctors to receive

specialist training at the UHN, a contribution that has had a

positive multiplier effect on Jamaica’s health care system. His most

recent recognition is the national Order of Distinction by the

Government of Jamaica. He has been the guest speaker at the

Medical Association of Jamaica gala and awards banquet, has been

honoured by the Jamaican-Canadian Chinese community and

awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Award at the UWI Toronto Gala.

Prof. Ho Ping KongUWI Vice Chancellor

Prof. Ho Ping Kong with students

Prof. Ho Ping Kong with his Jamaican relative and current UWI Medical Student, Jessica Yap, who is also a well recognised violinist and performer.

Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong with the UWI Hon. Graduate, Dr. the Hon. Raymond Chang, son of Gladstone and Maisie Chang

Dr Mark Richards has Caribbean roots and is a Trustee of

the British Foundation for The University of the West Indies.

He is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Physics and leads outreach

activities in the Imperial College, Westminster, London. He is

also a technology entrepreneur. He was recently presented with a

special recognition award from the Amos Bursary, which supports

young men of British African and Caribbean heritage from schools

and sixth form colleges across London to gain entry into university.

The scheme facilitates access to a range of opportunities including

internships, work experience and networking, as well as financial

assistance. In their recognition of Mark as a scientist mentor, the

Amos organisation noted the 6 week programme of physics

‘master classes’ he set up to help bring A-level students to a level

from which they could apply to top universities. Interestingly, in

his youth, he was known as DJ Kemist and later founded Xtremix

Records, an independent label that provides a remixing service to

the music industry.

GET TO KNOW BFUWI TRUSTEEDR MARK RICHARDS

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BFUWI

Dr Mark Richards

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UWIMMA - MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

According to Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI, Mona, Professor Archibald McDonald, the UWI will expand from 500 to 1000 beds, the current hospital facility at Mona and make it into a modern facility with more clinical space and modern operating theatres to serve Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. There will also be other major projects on the campus that will transform the university. This projected $40-billion reconstruction project is part of a $70-billion memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed recently by the UWI and China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC). The Principal notes that this project is really close to his heart and will enhance clinical training to support his vision of delivering a medical programme which is able to compete with the very best programmes in the world. The portfolio of infrastructural projects include the development of a student centre, a residential complex, a new hotel, the redevelopment and rebuilding of the UHWI, and a co-generation plant. The MOU also incorporates the total reconstruction of the existing residential complex for faculty members. This could include various classes of housing, including stand-alone houses, townhouses and apartments which could be offered to junior and senior staff as well as to members of the diplomatic community and any other activities as agreed by the parties. The UWI Mona has commenced the process of constructing a co-generation plant, with the cooling component of the plant already being operational. The university has spent to date US$6 million on the plant with the aim of the campus benefiting from lower electricity bills.

MEDICAL TRAINING EXPANDS AT THE UWI, ST. AUGUSTINE

UWIMMA News

The Jamaican Minister of Health, Dr. Fenton Ferguson (centre- back row ) looks on with Lui Lei, Economic Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Jamaica (left) and Professor Ishenkumba Kahwa, Deputy Principal of the UWI, Mona (standing - right) while ( front row left ) Qiwu Yang, Deputy General Manager, China Harbour Engineering Company, Americas Division and Pro- Vice Chancellor Archibald McDonald, Principal of the UWI, Mona sign the MOU amounting to some J$70 billion., on Sept 2, 2015

A Department for the UWI’s teaching and training facility was officially handed over to the UWI, St. Augustine, by the South West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA). The ceremony took place at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital where levels two and three will be used by the university and hospital officials in training. The SWRHA’s Chief Executive Officer, Anil Gosine and the UWI Principal Professor Clement Sankat noted that programmes have been ongoing at the San Fernando General Hospital. More medical students can be accommodated with the new state-of-the-art facility, an extension of the San Fernando General Hospital, which is equipped with modern lecture halls, seminar rooms, laboratories, conference rooms and library.

DIPLOMACY FINDS A NEW HOME AT UWI, ST. AUGUSTINE

The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean hosted an evening reception on August 21, 2015 to celebrate one year of achievements

since its 2014 launch in Trinidad and Tobago. Guests included the Diplomatic Corps, current and past students of the Academy, and

friends in the local diplomatic community. The evening’s highlight was the official opening of the Academy’s new building at The UWI St

Augustine Campus.

Professor W. Andy Knight, Director of the Institute of International Relations at The UWI greets the Honourable Winston Dookeran,

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, outside the new Diplomatic Academy building before the reception.

L-R: His Excellency Marcelo Salviolo, Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The

Honourable Winston Dookeran, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Professor Clement Sankat, Pro Vice-

Chancellor and Campus Principal, UWI St Augustine, and Professor W. Andy Knight, Director of the Institute of International Relations

at The UWI.

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Diplomacy Reigns

UWI Mona will implement the controlled growing of specific

strains of marijuana as it attempts to identify the plants DNA

profiles. The initiative will provide cannabis plants which can then

be tested to determine how the different strains interact with

the human body, identify best practices for growing marijuana as

well as develop products for the treatment of varied illnesses and

diseases. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed

on July 1, 2015 between the UWI, Mona and a US-based company

Citiva Jamaica LLC, one of the largest marijuana growers and

dispensary owners in Colorado, USA. The MOU will develop the

medical cannabis industry in Jamaica and internationally through

the identification of the biological and chemical properties of

Medical cannabis (or medical marijuana) in order to determine

how the plant works to treat disease or alleviate the symptoms

of disease. The UWI, Mona will utilize its analytical botanical

chemistry and biological capabilities for small scale, controlled

research growth, focusing on all aspects of the strain, including

growing conditions and DNA sequencing.

MONA

CAVE HILL

Antigua and Barbuda will once again be the home of the Open

Campus Graduation Ceremony in 2015. The 7th Presentation of

Graduates Ceremony of The UWI Open Campus will be held

on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Six hundred and fifty

(650) students (534 undergraduates and 116 postgraduates)

will officially graduate from the Open Campus with degrees,

certificates and diplomas in a wide range of subject areas. The

UWI Open Campus will confer an Honorary Doctorate on a

citizen from The Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Her Excellency

A. Missouri Sherman-Peter. Currently the CARICOM Permanent

Observer to the United Nations, Ambassador Sherman-Peter

has an outstanding and distinguished career as a diplomat,

provides singular service to The University of the West Indies,

and is a respected senior government representative in her native

Bahamas.

OPEN CAMPUS

UWI Cave Hill’s New Deputy Campus Principal is Professor

Clive Landis; former Director of the Chronic Disease Research

Centre (CDRC) at The University. Professor Landis, assumed

office on September 14th 2015, succeeding Professor Pedro

Welch who served from Aug 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015.

He is a Professor of Cardiovascular Research with nearly

12 years of academic service to The UWI, since relocating

from the Imperial College in London in 2004. His qualifications

include a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry which he earned at

Birmingham University in the United Kingdom in 1983, a Master of

Science in Microbiology from Loyola University, Chicago in 1986,

and a Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology from Loyola University,

Chicago in 1990. He joined The UWI as a Senior Lecturer at the

CDRC, and soon after, founded the Edmund Cohen Laboratory

for Vascular Research.

She has more than 38 years of experience in diplomacy, public

service, international organisations and executive management.

Her leadership positions have included Ambassador Extraordinary

and Plenipotentiary and Special Envoy; Chef de Cabinet to the

President of the 58th session of the United Nations General

Assembly; High Commissioner and Consul General. She also

served as Assistant Director/Special Adviser in the Political Affairs

Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London from 1994-

1997.

H.E. A. Missouri Sherman-Peter holds a Master’s Degree in

International Affairs from Columbia University in New York and a

Bachelor of Arts in History (Special Honours) from The University

of the West Indies. Her specialty areas include crime prevention

and criminal justice with a focus on international narcotics control

and gender affairs. In 2013 she was the recipient of the Pelican

Award from The UWI Alumni Association – New York Chapter,

in recognition of her outstanding career and accomplishments in

diplomacy and public service.

Her Excellency A. Missouri Sherman-Peter

Prof. Clive LandisDeputy Campus Principal

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Happenings

Three new deans have been appointed at the UWI, St. Augustine

Campus.

Effective August 1, 2015, Professor Stephan Gift assumed the

role of Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Terence

Seemungal as Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences and

Professor Ann-Marie Bissessar as Dean of the Faculty of Social

Sciences.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Professor Gift is currently head of the department of

electrical and computer engineering in the faculty of engineering

and leader of the electronics system group. He has developed

several new electronic systems and in a series of papers has

challenged Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. He is also the first

person in his department to be promoted to the rank of Professor.

Professor Bissessar is Professor of Political Science and

former Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences. Among

her recent publications is Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana: Race

and Politics in Two Plural Societies which she co-authored with

Professor Emeritus John Gaffar La Guerre in 2013.

Professor Seemungal has made a significant contribution to

the study of lung health. His work with the academic group of

Professor Wedzicha in London contributed significantly to the

body of knowledge of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

NEW DEANSAPPOINTED

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HAPPENINGS

UN COMMITTEE AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BENEFITS

FROM UWI’S EXPERTISE

The Director of the Institute for Gender & Development

Studies and Professor of Social History at the Mona

Campus, Professor Verene Shepherd has been appointed

to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of

Racial Discrimination (CERD). She was elected at the

twenty-sixth meeting of CERD’s States’ in New York.

She is the first national of the Caribbean Community

(CARICOM) to serve on the CERD. Candidates from

Burkina Faso, China, Colombia, Guatemala, Mauritania,

Russia, Spain and the United States of America were also

elected, however she received the most votes among

them.

The CERD is a body of independent experts charged with

monitoring the implementation of the Convention on

the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by

its State parties. It is one of the eight human rights treaty

bodies which fall under the Office of the United Nations

High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Individuals are selected based on their moral character and

competence in the field of human rights. Professor Shepherd is a

fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. We are proud

to note that she is a graduate of the UWI where she pursued her

undergraduate degree. She obtained her PhD in History from the

University of Cambridge. She has published widely on her main

research interests of Jamaican economic history during slavery,

migration and Diasporas, and Caribbean women’s history. She is

a member of several international organisations and sits on the

Advisory/Editorial of several regional and international journals

including the Arts Journal, Caribbean Quarterly, Jamaica Journal,

Slavery and Abolition.

Professor Verene Shepherd

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A PELICAN SOARING

UWI GRADS ON THE MOVE

University of the West Indies graduate Rowena Kalloo participated in Miami University’s Earth Expeditions global field

course in Guyana during the summer of 2015. She studied traditional ecological knowledge of the Makushi and the potential

of local wisdom to guide conservation initiatives in the Caribbean country of Guyana. Rowena is an Assistant Professor at the

University of Trinidad and Tobago in Maracas Valley, St Joseph. she took the graduate course in pursuit of her master’s degree

from Miami University’s Global Field Programme.

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UWI GRADS ON THE MOVE

-UWIAA - Jamaica

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UWI VISA CARD

IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR LIVES

Charmaine AnnMarie Henry was a former student and

lecturer at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication

(CARIMAC). She had a long and dedicated association with

CARIMAC and The University of the West Indies, Mona, where

she completed both her Bachelors and Masters degrees in

Communication. At the time of her death, she was in the process

of completing her Doctoral studies. She was an energetic and

engaging member of the CARIMAC community. In the course

of her academic interactions, as both student and lecturer, she

was equally loved by her colleagues as well as her many former

students for her warmth, sincerity, compassion and dynamism. The

Director of CARIMAC, Professor Hopeton Dunn, has expressed

the profound condolences of the Institute to Ms Henry’s family

and to all who mourn her untimely passing.

Dr. Barry Wade, Senior Lecturer in Zoology (1967-1982),

was born in Belize, and was a graduate of the UWI, Mona campus,

earning both his BSc. and a PhD. from the then Department of

Zoology. His doctoral supervisor was the late Professor Ivan

Goodbody and he studied the Donax or West Indian beach clam

resources of Green Bay, St. Catherine. He managed the UWI Port

Royal Marine Laboratory for a number of years and while there

in the 1970s undertook the first large-scale study of biology of

Kingston Harbour, establishing incontrovertibly and for the first

time, that large parts of it were lifeless due to serious long-term

sewerage and industrial pollution. Such findings were made public

and the government of the time advised of this situation. Many

subsequent harbour studies which continue to today, build on his

foundational data sets. His graduate students began some of the

first detailed pollution studies in Jamaica coastal waters. He also

headed in the early 1980s the pioneering CIDA/UWI Jamaican

Oysterculture Project which investigated the nation’s potential for

mariculture of mangrove oysters, the culture of which still continues

on a small scale today. He was an avid environmentalist. He

headed one of the first large Jamaican environmental consultancy

firms, which conducted varying biological and ecological studies

in the Caribbean region. He maintained contact with the UWI

and his company employed UWI Mona science faculty and

other graduates. He also worked for a number of years with the

Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica. He was a popular scientist and

a researcher of the highest standards.

Professor Emeritus Charles Cadogan was an

accomplished mathematician who gave over 30 years of service to

the UWI. After obtaining his PhD in mathematics at The University’s

Mona campus, he joined the staff of the Cave Hill campus in 1970,

becoming its first Professor of Mathematics. He served as Dean of

the Faculty of Science and Technology from 1987-1991, and was

also University Dean for the three physical UWI campuses, for the

last two of those years. He retired in 2001. He was instrumental

in the introduction of computers at the UWI, both as a subject to

be taught and a tool to improve administrative efficiency. He was

Chairman of the Computer Management Committee at Cave Hill

and the wider UWI Computer Committee. He led the process

of integrating the subjects of mathematics, physics and computer

science into a practical department for teaching and research.

Internationally, he was a highly regarded mathematics lecturer

and researcher who was respected for his contribution to one of

the most perplexing mathematical problems: the ‘3x+1 problem’,

which has baffled academics around the world since 1937.

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TRIBUTES

AFUWI Gala Save the Date – Feb 24, 2016

The UWI STAT Mona Corps served as the site coordinators

for the Y Knot Beach, Port Royal on September 19, 2015. This

was one of the ways they fulfilled their environmental and disaster

mitigation portfolio. After the Beach Cleanup exercise they went

back to the Alumni House at Mona for lunch and further activities.

To raise awareness about the importance of PELICAN PRIDE

and alumni loyalty among students, the St. Augustine Corps

held a Pelican Pride week under its Alumni Relations Portfolio and

Peli the Pelican led the charge.

BEACH CLEAN UP

UWI STAT ST.AUGUSTINE

Look out for news about the UWI STAT Cave Hill Corps

Week of Activities in the next issue.

2016 award recipients:

• Harold P. Freeman MD

• Phillip & Christine Gore

• Daphne Jones

• Liquid Soul

• Larry Miller

• Machel Montano

Once again, Hon. David N. Dinkins

will be the Honorary Dinner Chair and

Dr. the Hon. Harry Belafonte will be

returning as Honorary Patron with Danny

Glover as Honorary Chair.Proceeds in

aid of the scholarship programme for

Caribbean students who are in need of

financial assistance.

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NEWS

UWI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CHAPTERS

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman, Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Florida, Jamaica, Montserrat, New York, St.

Kitts and Nevis, Toronto, Trinidad and Tobago, Washington DC

UWI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONTACTSAlberta, South East Asia, Grenada, Guangdong, Ottawa, Dominica, St. Vincent

and the Grenadines, United Kingdom, St. Lucia, Turks and Caicos Islands

ALUMNI REPRESENTATIONAlumnus Representative: Ms. Cecile Clayton – Jamaica

August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2017 Council Representative: Mr. Shavar Maloney – St. Vincent and the

Grenadines August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016

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Contact: Charmaine Wright

OPEN CAMPUSTel: 876-927-1201

alumni@open.uwi.edu

Contact: Karen Ford-Warner

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