Abigail Jones a B.A. Geography graduate of the Department of Geography & Geology is the 2021 CCRIF Scholarship Awardee. Ms Jones is enrolled in the M.Sc. Natural Resource Management specializing in Disaster Risk Management offered at The UWI, Mona Campus. The Department extends its congratulations to Ms Jones.

Since the 8th and 9th of April, the La Soufriere volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent & the Grenadines has been erupting consistently. There was an evacuation of over 10,000 people from the Red Zone to a safer part of the island in the Green Zone. However, recurrent eruptions and thick clouds of ash which cover a large portion of the island has travelled as far as St Lucia and Barbados; this has compounded the disastrous effects of the volcano on the people and island itself.