American Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “Women are the real architects of society.”

As we continue to grow as a global university rooted in the Caribbean, our ambitions have grown in equal measure. As Principal of the Mona Campus, it has always been my goal to create opportunities for women to fulfil their potential and be leaders. This has translated into the Mona Campus having more female Professors and Deans. Since 2018, of the 27 Professors appointed, 14 were women and four of the Deans appointed were women.

The first point in the Caribbean-led reparatory justice programme jointly championed by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) and CARICOM calls for ‘formal and sincere apology’ as a precondition of healing for descendants of enslaved peoples.

The Trevelyan Family apology on Monday, February 27, during a forum co-hosted by the Grenada National Reparations Committee (GNRC) and The UWI shows the successful application of this framework, which has come to be known as the “Ten Point Plan”.

A high-level delegation of royal African traditional leaders from AIDO Network International, is visiting Jamaica from February 28 to March 6 for a series of activities hosted by the CARICOM Reparations Commission, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies (UWI), and its Centre for Reparation Research and PJ Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy.

The State University of New York (SUNY) and the University of the West Indies (UWI) will hold the first post COVID-19 SUNY-UWI Health Research Consortium Face-to-Face Meeting on March 9-10, 2023, at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies.  The objective of the meeting is to provide a forum for faculty members within the UWI and SUNY university systems, and other university partners, to advance research, which is in keeping with the UWI’s mission, “To advance learning, create knowledge and foster innovation for the positive transformation of the Caribbean and the wi

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution to designate February 17 annually as Global Tourism Resilience Day. The resolution was initiated by Professor Lloyd Waller from The University of the West Indies (The UWI) who also serves as Executive Director of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC), which is hosted at The UWI Mona Campus.

Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has announced that the University’s Five Islands Campus in Antigua and Barbuda is set for a “magnificent take-off”. He was speaking during a ceremony held at the Campus on January 17, during which Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, The Honourable Gaston Browne signed an agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to secure US$80 million to invest in the development of The UWI’s youngest landed campus.

The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Jamaica donated JMD$5.4 million to the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at The University of the West Indies, (The UWI) Mona Campus, to support the Huawei ICT Lab – a part of the larger Huawei  ICT Talent Hub in Jamaica.