UWI STAT TRENDING TOPICS

A bi-semester newsletter (UWI STAT, St Augustine Corps)

VOL. 1, ISSUE 1 30.09.2016

What is UWI STAT?

STAT = Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow. UWI STAT Ambassadors

are the Vice Chancellor’s representatives on all four campuses. STAT

Ambassadors thrive to be leaders and companions to their fellow

students, alumni and the UWI Community.

What are UWI STAT’s major mandates?

In summary, the major mandates of the UWI STAT, St Augustine Corps are as follows:

HIV/AIDS awareness to the student population

Caribbean integration promotion

Promotion of the UWI campuses as the premiere tertiary institution to prospective students

Volunteerism among the Corps as well as the student body.

2015/2016: The Year in Review

Official beginning of the UWI STAT Academic year - hosting a booth at the UWI Guild of

Students’ ‘Guild Fest’.

Recruitment of ambassador designates as well as Orientation and Leadership training.

Pelican Pride Week - students as well as members of staff were able to interact with our campus mascot, Peli the Pelican, as well as engage in other exciting activities.

Meeting with students on the CSME Student Mission from St. Kitts and Nevis.

Representation at the CSME Student Mission in Guyana.

HIV/AIDS Week - where students were engaged in the awareness of this disease as well as protective sex.

UWI STAT Retreat - an unforgettable weekend where Ambassadors and Ambassador Designates engaged in team building as well as training and planning activities.

Let’s Talk UWI - an open forum where students aired their concerns. A report was prepared and forwarded on to administration.

The four UWI Campuses are Cave Hill, Mona,

St Augustine and Open Campus!

The Caribbean is the second highest region with the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world after Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ambassadors and Ambassador Designates of

the UWI STAT, St Augustine Corps Three UWI STAT Ambassadors with

Vice Chancellor, Sir Hilary Beckles

Ambassadors during the HIV/AIDS Awareness

Fair 2015 Peli the Pelican

with a student

Ambassador designates assisting

for the 2015 Graduation

UWI STAT TRENDING TOPICS

A bi-semester newsletter (UWI STAT, St Augustine Corps)

VOL. 1, ISSUE 1 30.09.2016

Meet the executive for the Academic Year 2016-2017

Feature Article - Youth and Crime by UWI STAT St Augustine Corps

Crime is, without a doubt, a serious issue in Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Caribbean region.

According to Daphne Phillips, the reasons put forth for the startling crime rates, include,

unemployment, our geographic location, general moral decline, weak family life, among other factors.

Youth violence is a high-priority, high-visibility concern across the Caribbean. Not only has violence escalated in most of the region in recent decades, but youth are also disproportionately represented in the incidence and severity of this trend, both as victims and as perpetrators (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). To combat these issues, young persons must be properly equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to become more effective leaders who are able to manage conflict in a responsible way. The Criminal Justice System (CJS) has been adversarial in nature, bent on punishment versus reward. We strongly recommend the use of restorative justice, which is an approach to problem solving that, in its various forms, involves the victim, the offender, their social networks, justice agencies and the community (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). This approach seeks to effectively rehabilitate the former offender into society, rather than shun them.

The Caribbean region must re-evaluate the approach to the CJS moving it from retributive to restorative justice. There must be political will, financial resources and strong endorsement by various stakeholder groups in order to move forward in this regard. Young people must be effectively engaged in this process, as they would drive the improved system into the future.

Youth in crime and crime against youth, highlight the very challenges our youths face today, as a result youth must stand as one and let our voice resonate as one.

UWI STAT Word Puzzle! Can you find the words in one minute? DID YOU KNOW?

R Y L A P G A X D O T AlmaJordan X Q T E L T H N A H F Alumni Z M L I B U A H A E O Beckles G I V C S L M R G J R Copeland C E P S E R U N A D C Daaga W G H P N D E C I X R Peli R H O H U Y V V T M E SPEC Z C W R Q S D O I G D Students S T U D E N T S I N N Undercroft N A D R O J A M L A U University E G B R Y M B U M P P N R K B E C K L E S O

Key Upcoming Events October 24-26 Disaster Mitigation Week

November 19 Walk Against Youth Crime

November 28-30 HIV/AIDS Week

Contact us: Keep updated with us:

UWI STAT, St Augustine Corps

uwistat.sta@alumni.uwi.edu

Seated (L-R): Ms. Chantal Fournillier— Vice President of Finance, Ms. Jamila Small—Vice President of Disaster

Mitigation and Risk Management, Ms. Risa Mark—Vice President of Communication and Internal Relations.

Standing (L-R): Ms. Onika Andrews—Vice President of CARICOM Relations, Ms. Darcelle Modeste—

President, Ms. Kristi-Marie Madray—Vice President of Membership, Ms. Shanice Madiera—Vice President of

Programming and Volunteerism [Absent: Ms. Hannah Marshall —Vice President of Alumni Relations.]

Photo Cred: Andora French-James