JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation has awarded a $40,000 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) prize to University of the West Indies Venture Competition (UWIVC) finalist, Mother Teresa Driving Academy. Leneka Rhoden, CEO of the Driving Academy, was a participant in the 2020 staging of the UWIVC held at the Mona School of Business and Management.  The Mother Teresa Driving Academy received this award because it demonstrated the company’s profit model was aligned with ethical social and eco ››Read More

Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) through the Caribbean School of Data (CSOD) in collaboration with the University of Guyana (UG) held a virtual graduation for its first cohort of 65 persons in the Digital Literacy and Data Skills Training programme on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. The 12-week programme ran by staff and former students of the UG’s Department of Computer Sciences sought to equip young Guyanese with skills in data management and digital efficiency so as to c ››Read More

The Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) recently honoured Jamaica-born Leighton Henry for voluntary work in education. Henry, a Jamaica Defence Force soldier and border, industrial and hospitality security administrator in Jamaica, migrated to Canada over a decade ago and is now the co-chair of the Caribbean International Student Group in Ontario, Canada. It is a role that he relishes. “Since I’ve been in Canada I’ve recognised that information is king and is key to settling. Thi ››Read More

  Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM) continued its business advocacy role by hosting a virtual public forum, “Powered Up - Electric Vehicles in Jamaica: Are we ready?” on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Featuring a high level panel, the presentations focused on the impact of generation capacity, the anticipation for regulatory changes and the social behavioural changes that will occur due to the introduction of electric vehicles in Jamaica. The aim of the Government is to c ››Read More

Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) welcomed hundreds of new graduate and undergraduate students for the academic year 2021/22 in virtual orientation sessions held over the period August 9 - 31, 2021. These cohorts have the distinction of being the second set of students to begin their programme of study in an online/remote mode. In continuing its response to the challenges posed by the COVIID-19 Pandemic, the planning teams ensured that the virtual sessions again provi ››Read More

          The University of the West Indies Mona Campus wishes to advise all students and members of the public that the campus will be closed for face – to – face business on the dates below. This is being done in keeping with the announcement made by the Government of Jamaica that there will be no movement days to curb the latest surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Jamaica. This announcement was made yesterday, Thursday, August 19, 2021. Members of the UWI community ar ››Read More

The Faculty of Social Sciences is pleased to announce that the Tiger has been chosen as the Faculty Mascot. The nomination was approved by the FSS community through a survey of options. It is not a coincidence that of all the options that were presented to members in our Faculty, the majority chose the Tiger as our mascot representative. On the surface, the choice of the Tiger may appear to be obvious, as the colours of its fur (orange, black and brown) are synonymous with the Fa ››Read More

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  For their outstanding contributions to regional and international development, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) will present honorary degrees to 14 eminent persons at its 2021 graduation ceremonies. Nominations from across The UWI’s five campuses were approved by the University Council, at its sitting on April 30, 2021. These 2021 graduands will join a list of over 450 honorary degree recipients conferred by the regional University since 1965.  The UWI retains ››Read More

          Congratulations to our Jamaicans sports persons who earned the right to represent our country at the Tokyo Olympics. I only wish we could have been in more disciplines, and this is the focus of my article today. The historical view of professional sports (inherited from British Colonialism), was akin to the “lowly” pursuits of the proletariat. It certainly was not the desired future of occupation for the established upper classes”, and served mainly to occupy and d ››Read More