Some 15 persons will be honoured when The University of the West Indies (UWI) confers honorary degrees in the annual Graduation Ceremonies to be held throughout its four campuses between October and November 2010.

Celebrations begin on October 16th at the Open Campus Ceremony, where Mrs Beverley Steele, CBE, MH and Professor Caryl Phillips will receive the honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) and Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degrees respectively. On October 23rd, the celebrations move to the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, where Rev. Dr. Donald Henry Kortright Davis, The Honourable Elliott Mottley, QC, Professor Naana Jane Opuku-Agyemang and Charles Straker will receive the honorary LLD. On October 29th and 30th, the celebrations move to the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago, where the honorary LLD will be conferred onto Mr Doddridge Alleyne, Mr Hans Hanoomansingh, Mrs Diana Mahabir Wyatt, while Mr Thomas Gatcliffe will receive the honorary Doctor of Sciences degree (DSc.).

Finally, on November 5th and 6th, the Mona Campus in Jamaica will host the closing celebration, where Mr George Neville Ashenheim and the Honourable William Mc Connell, OJ, CD will receive the LLD, while Dr. Knox Hagley and Dr. Renn Holness will receive the DSc., and Professor Edward Alston Cecil Baugh the DLitt.