The Embassy of Brazil, through the Latin American-Caribbean Centre of UWI, is hosting a two-week summer capoeira workshop from August 8 - 20 at the Students’ Union Gym on the Mona Campus.
Organized specifically for participants in the Youth Training and Empowerment Programme, the capoeira workshop will expose students to capoeira, a creative and defensive form of martial arts that is harmonized into a dance with music.
Capoeira has its origins in the need of Brazilian slaves to protect themselves without the use of weapons, which they were forbidden to carry or own.

UWI hosts Generating Genius programme
A group of twelve-year old British boys teamed up with their Jamaican counterparts last weekend to participate in the first of an annual four-week training programme on the campus of the University of the West Indies, entitled Generating Genius.
The brainchild of Dr. Tony Sewell, Associate Lecturer of Leeds University in London, Generating Genius is designed to develop higher standards of education in the areas of medicine and research science among boys in Jamaica and the UK.

The Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work will host a Substance Abuse Workshop on July 23 beginning at 10:00 a.m. in Room GLT1 Faculty of Social Sciences. The topic of the Workshop is Substance Abuse – The Psychological Perspective. For further information telephone 970-3896.

Profiles – The Jamaica Pre-School Child, The Status of Early Childhood Development in Jamaica’ is the title of a publication by Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the UWI Mona Campus, Dr Maureen Samms Vaughan, which was launched at the Planning Institute of Jamaica, recently. The landmark research initiative examines pre-primary children, assesses their learning environments and identifies key issues affecting outcomes for child development.