The Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Honourable Bruce Golding will be the guest speaker at the Grand Commemoration Dinner on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 7 pm at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre. The Dinner culminates the Commemoration Celebrations at The University of the West Indies, Mona.  The Dinner is in honour of Professor Anthony Chen, former Head of the Climate Studies Group, one of the leading centres for climate change research in the Caribbean,  and Professor of Applied Atmospheric Physics in the Department of Physics. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former US Vice President, Mr. Al Gore.

On this occasion the University will launch its Green Initiative.

Entertainment will be provided by the Fifty50 band.

Tickets cost J $5000 per person. For reservations please contact the Public Relations Office, UWI, Mona at 977-5941 or 935-8692.