A Record 14 Honorary Degrees will be awarded at UWI Graduation Ceremonies at Mona, Cave Hill, and St. Augustine this October and November.  Topping the list of Honorary Graduands at Mona is the Governor General of Jamaica, His Excellency the Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke.  Sir Howard has a long and distinguished career as an Educator, Administrator, Public Servant and Lay Pastor.  He will be conferred with the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LLD).  Dr Carlton Davis, OJ, CD will also be honoured with the Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree.  Dr Davis, who holds a BSc in Soil Chemistry from McGill University and the MSc. and PhD. Degrees from the UWI, is a Scientist and Mineralogist.  He is currently Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Jamaica Civil Service.

Popular Jamaican Journalist, Communications Consultant and Playwright Barbara Gloudon will be awarded the honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree.  And, the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) will be conferred at Mona on Dr Herbert Fitzgerald Sewell, a Jamaican-born British citizen, medical doctor, teacher and medical researcher, professor and consultant.  Among other posts, he is currently Head of Immunology and Deputy Head, School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at the University of Nottingham.  Mona’s graduation ceremonies this year will be held on November 7 and 8.

Five honorary degrees will be awarded, instead of the normal two, at the graduation ceremony scheduled for October 25 at the Cave Hill Campus.  Dr. Richard Allsopp, Educator, Linguist, Lexicographer and Author of the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, will be conferred with an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree.  Vincentian Sir Dwight Venner, KBE, distinguished graduate of the UWI, and Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank will be conferred w