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PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES

Click on the links below to view Commemoration Activities

 

Thursday February 14, 2008
10:00 a.m. Opening Ceremony
Career Expo

Venue: Undercroft, Senate Building, UWI, Mona

Career Booth Exhibition
Thursday, February 14: 11.00am-4.00pm
Friday, February 15: 9.00 am– 5.00 p.m.  
5: 00 p.m. Opening and Flag Raising Ceremony with University Parade (University Parade begins at 3.00 p.m. from the Students' Union).
Venue: Flag pole area, Assembly Hall
7:00 p.m.
Integrated Thursday Lyme


Friday February 15, 2008
10 a.m – 4:00 p.m.   Caribbean Day
Venue: Area facing the Undercroft
12 noon– 2:00 p.m. Taste food from the countries
Cost: $100 per taste
1 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Hour Entertainment
MC Jennifer “Jenny Jenny” Small


Saturday February 16, 2008
9:00 a.m.   Track and Field Invitational Meet
Venue: National Stadium
Run UWI Run
Venue: UWI to National Stadium


Sunday February 17, 2008

Commemoration Service

Liturgist: Rev. Dr. Lester Shields, Roman Catholic Chaplain.

Sermon: Rev. Neville Callam, General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance.

Venue: University Chapel
9.00 a.m.
 
6: 00 p.m.

Commemoration Concert & Pelican Awards

Performances by:

- Carol Gonzalez, Nickeisha Barnes, Joan Andrea Hutchinson
- NDTC
- University Panoridim Steel Orchestra
- University Dramatic Arts Society
- University Dance Society
- University Singers

Pelican Awardees:

- Dr. Knox Hagley
- Dr. Henry Lowe
- Dr. Muriel Lowe
- The Hon. Dennis Lalor
- Professor Franklin Knight

Venue: Assembly Hall
Tickets: $600.00,
UWI Students with ID and children under 12 $300.00

   


Monday February 18 - 24, 2008
4: 00 p.m. Opening Ceremony
Global Reggae Conference
Venue: The University of the West Indies, Mona

 


Thursday February 21, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m Mona Moonlighting
Performances by Dean Fraser, Tarrus Riley and Seretse Small
Venue: The Chapel Gardens
Adm:$800; UWI Students with ID: $600


 


Friday February 22, 2008
7:00 p.m. Commemoration Dinner
Guest Speaker: Hon. Patrick Manning
Prime Minister of the Republic of
Trinidad & Tobago

Venue: The Ruins, Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre
Ticket: Singles:$3500, Couples: 6000; UWI Students with ID : $1000

 
 


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For further information

Contact the Public Relations Office, UWI Mona, Tel: (876) 977 - 5941 or (876) 935-8692 for further information on the Commemoration Celebrations and Alumni Week 2008.

Programme download

Click here to download the Commemoration Celebrations 2008 Programme.

 

 

Celebrating six decades

Celebrate with us in our year long programme of events and activities.


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