The University of the West Indies, Mona in partnership with UN Women will be hosting the Jamaica Rwanda South-South Dialogue on November 9 and 10, 2015. The dialogue will facilitate mutual learning and shared cooperation on the theme “Promoting Women’s Political Empowerment for Sustainable Development”.

Rwanda has made remarkable strides in the area of women’s political empowerment and participation at the political leadership level with 61% of its parliamentary representatives being women. With this wealth of experience the Hon. Kantengwa Juliana, a member of the Rwandan Parliament since 1999, will be keynote speaker during this exchange.  

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The University Bookshop wishes to advise its valued customers that draw date for the “Win-Your-Textbooks-Purchased-Free” promotion is Friday, 16th October 2015. 

The winners will be announced at 12:30 p.m. and must be present to collect their prizes.

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 The fourth International Colloquium on Black Males in Education is being co-hosted by the Institute for Gender & Development Studies - Mona Unit at the University of the West Indies–Mona in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin's  Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (WeiLab).  

The Opening Ceremony will be held on October 7 2015 at 8:ooam at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. 

The theme of the 2015 Colloquium is : Creating Opportunity Through Education: Re-Engineering the Social Ecosystem for Black Males. 

Among the international speakers are:

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The UWI Mona Library aims to be a knowledge resource centre of excellence. We go the extra mile in providing information resources in an atmosphere conducive to support the teaching, learning and research activities of the UWI community.


The Mona Library will be hosting a soft launch on “Zoning in the Library” on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 10:00am at the entrance of the Main Library. The initiative to have designated zones in the Library is being introduced to create a balanced environment which will cater to a variety of activities within the library including collaborative and quiet study. The zoning will commence in the Main Library and after an appropriate period the branch libraries (Science, Law and Medicine) will also be zoned.

Do you know your Zone?

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