The Jamaican Historical Society is inviting its members and their friends to a Field Trip planned for Sunday May 18. The field trip will involve visits to Bellevue, Mt. Plenty and hopefully Bromley in St. Ann. Those attending should meet at the first assembly point, in front of the supermarket in Tropical Plaza in Kingston at 8.30 a.m. and then drive to the 2nd assembly point, the JDF Headquarters in Moneague.  Participants are reminded to wear comfortable walking shoes and to travel with insect repellent and picnic lunches.

Noted Political Scientist and Senator, Professor Trevor Munroe will lecture on Combating Corruption:  Challenges to Democratic Governance in the public lecture series “The University in the West” being sponsored by UWI.  According to Professor Munroe, “The war against corruption in Jamaica and the Caribbean has had only limited success and now needs to be urgently stepped up.  In so doing, we should examine our own, as well as global experience, discern what elements are missing or under-developed, and urgently attend to these if we are to meet the challenges posed by corruption to de

Professor Peter Fletcher, Head of the Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at UWI Mona, was recently the guest of the British Columbia Surgical Society in Canada, where he was the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Speaker.

The Centre for Caribbean Thought, UWI, Mona and Africana Studies, Brown University in association with the Department of Literatures in English, UWI, Mona will host a seminar called Caribbean Reasonings.  The seminar is the second in a series of annual events to honour outstanding Caribbean intellectuals and will be held from June 5 to 7, on the Mona Campus.  This year the honoured guest is outstanding Barbadian Novelist and Social Critic George Lamming, Visiting Scholar, Duke University.  The seminar is entitled – The Sovereignty of the Imagination: the Writings and Thought of George Lam