The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Regional Coordinating Unit has completed a Research Project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency in Jamaica, which examined gender-based violence in Jamaica with a view to determining the root causes. A number of quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were used, including interviews, focus group discussions in communities and among children and young adults in schools, communities and institutions.

Four members of staff in the Registry at the UWI Mona Campus were named Recipients of the 2004/2005 Campus Registrar’s Award at the Registry’s Christmas Luncheon held at the Mona Visitors Lodge and Conference Centre recently. The awardees were Kathleen Gayle of the Public Relations Office and Sandra Pusey of the Secretariat for Service, Ian Gooden of the Human Resources Department for Productivity and Beryl Roberts of the Campus Registrar’s Office for Service and Initiative.

The Irvine Hall gate is now closed to vehicular traffic to facilitate roadwork to upgrade that entrance to the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indies. The project will entail the widening of the existing roadway leading off campus and the construction of a new guardhouse at the intersection of Gibraltar Camp Way and Rousseau Road.

The Nursing Midwifery Centre of the UWI School Nursing will host an International Conference and Mary Seivwright Day under the theme Changing Visions to Reality through Nursing Research 1966-2006. The Conference will be held from June 1-3, 2006 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Hotel in Ocho Rios. The 2006 Conference is a special occasion for the School of Nursing as it celebrates 40 years of service to the development of nursing education in the Caribbean.