The American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) will pay tribute to the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP, Prime Minister of Jamaica, with the Legacy Award, one of the organisation’s highest honours, at its 29th Annual “The Legacy Continues” Awards Gala on Friday, April 17. The event takes place in New York City.

On Monday April 13 and again on Wednesday April 15, 2026, a group of staff from the UWI Mona Campus gathered at the main entrance to the Campus expressing concerns about salary issues. The Executive Management of the campus decided to engage them, despite having no formal notification of their issues. The Campus Principal, Professor Densil A. Williams who is travelling on university business asked members of the Campus Executive Management team led by Acting Deputy Principal, Professor Marvin Reid to meet with representatives of the protestors to better understand their issues.

Brian Blake, a 17-year-old student-athlete from the Faculty of Social Sciences, has qualified to represent Jamaica at two major regional table tennis events in the Dominican Republic from April 6 to 15, 2026.

Congratulations to Mrs. Marvalyn Campbell, Facilities & Support Services Manager at The UWI Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM), on her election as Second Vice President of the WBSC Americas Executive Board for the 2025–2029 term.

A timely workshop on the Economics and Finance of Climate Change Adaptation concluded on Friday, March 27 at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The hybrid course, which commenced on March 23, is a collaborative effort between the IDB, SOAS University of London, and The University of the West Indies’ Fiscal Research Centre (UWI-FRC).
This workshop follows a successful staging in Jamaica in September 2025, with a subsequent session scheduled for Barbados in June 2026.

The American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) will pay tribute to the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP, Prime Minister of Jamaica, with the Legacy Award, one of the organisation’s highest honours, at its 29th Annual “The Legacy Continues” Awards Gala on Friday, April 17. The event takes place in New York City.