The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus is pleased to announce the appointment of two Senior Managers to the positions of Deputy Principal and Director of the Open Campus Country Sites (OCCS).  These appointments will take effect on August 1, 2020.

Dr Francis O. Severin, Deputy Principal

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is now among a list of the world’s top 100 Universities in new rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE).

On June 24, THE revealed its ‘Golden Age University Rankings’ of established higher education institutions across the world that have been around for 50 to 80 years. Based on years of existence, this category compares institutions established between 1945 and 1967, using the same criteria and methodology as the World Rankings. According to THE, “the ranking takes its name from what was a ‘Golden Age’ in global higher education, characterised by rapid university expansion and increasing investment in research.”

The following statement is issued by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Professor of Economic History.

Sometimes it requires a personal rather than political or professional perspective to see beyond the borders of a seemingly divisive circumstance, and to offer a dispassionate comment. I was named by my father after his cousin, Hilary Alfonso McDonald Beckles. “HAM Beck”, as he was called, was little known in our native Barbados, but his contribution to nation building in Guyana is well respected. In the late 1940s he fled “Bim” for “BG”. He taught classics for near three decades at Queens College in Georgetown, where he also became principal.

Five years ago, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) approved as one of its strategic goals, the alignment of its operations with regional and global private sectors. The intention was to promote regional economic development specifically to roll out a road map to take the institution to bond and equity markets with bankable projects.

            Professor Rupika Delgoda                                      Dr. David Picking         

The Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus has advised that a recently published study by in the June 2020 issue of the Journal of Health and Pollution concluded that some popular skin lightening products used in Jamaica conta

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is now among a list of the world’s top 100 Universities in new rankings released by Times Higher Education (THE).

On June 19, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, President of Universities Caribbean, and Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission was interviewed by the Al Jazeera Media Network https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/dzh6a6DN7f

The interview comes as British financial institutions and the Church of England acknowledged and apologised for their ties to the slave trade during the past week, and committed to fund projects to provide opportunities for minorities.

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Mona Campus, Prof. Dale Webber, is flanked by the Mona Campus Registrar, Dr. Donavan Stanberry (right) and PwC Territory Leader, Mr. Leighton McKnight at the handing-over of laptops to the University on Friday, May 29, 2020. The contribution of 20 laptops to the University was made to assist students in need of such devices to facilitate online remote learning.

The following statement is issued by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, President of Universities Caribbean, and Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission.

Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe came to Jamaica. When the threats to his life were constant and closing in around his neck, he took this measure to maintain his life. His visits to Jamaica’s north coast filled his lungs with the ‘freer’ air of our space. He returned to the mainland more battle ready for the struggle to achieve the God-given right to the dignity of black life.