The UWI School of Nursing, Mona, will host its Annual Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference and Mary Seivwright Day from May 26-27, at the School’s Lecture Theatre, the Mary Seivwright Building, 9 Gibraltar Camp Way, UWI, Mona Campus.

The purpose of this year’s conference, which brings together regional and international participants and presenters, is to enable nursing lecturers, tutors, managers, clinical staff, students and policy makers to explore international evidence on innovative approaches to nursing education in the classroom and clinical areas.

Manager of the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) at The UWI, Mona and Attorney-At-Law, Cheryl Brown has been invited by the President of Azerbaijan to attend meetings of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan from May 28-June 4, 2011.  She is the only Caribbean representative who will attend this meeting. The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom.

At the annual business meeting of University Council held on May 6, 2011 at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Secretariat in Basseterre, St Kitts, with participation of Ministers of Education, government officials, academics and members of the private sector, the UWI’s supreme governing body undertook a comprehensive examination of its role and mandate as a catalyst for development in the English-speaking Caribbean region. It was acknowledged that the climate within which the University operated had changed drastically since the formation of the institution in 1948. Its regional remit and its role in strengthening the integration process had become even more critical now as governments continued to examine their commitment to regional integration.

Only 24% of households have a computer at home and only 16% of Jamaican households have internet access. These findings were disclosed by Professor Hopeton Dunn, Director, Telecommunications Policy Management Programme, as he presented in the outcomes of the recently completed Caribbean ICT Indicators and Broadband Survey for Jamaica.
The high cost of equipment is a major factor in not having internet access or computers in the home. However, several homes without a computer reported higher internet use via mobile phones and at other locations.