URD SIGNATURE EVENT

UWI MONA AT 70 COMMEMORATIVE FORUM

Organizers: The Office of the Principal, UWI Mona 

Topic: The UWI Mona at 70: A Commemorative Forum

Overview: This year marks the UWI’s 70th year of existence and a renewed commitment to enhancing every aspect of Caribbean development. This exciting forum is intended to provide a platform for an engaging discourse traversing “then” and “now”  among specially selected panelists, and offers a unique opportunity to involve the audience as past and present members of the UWI community reflect on the evolution of the UWI over the last 70 years.  

Chair: Dr Camille Bell-Hutchinson, Campus Registrar 

Guest Speaker: Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor

Panelists: The Most Honourable Professor Sir Kenneth Octavius Hall, ON, GCMG, OJ,; The Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, MP, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation with responsibility for Water, Works and Housing; 

Prof Barbara Bailey, Professor Emeritus of Gender and Education and Former Regional Coordinator, Centre for Gender and Development Studies;

Prof. Edward Baugh, Professor Emeritus of English, UWI Mona; Mr. Oshane Grant, President of the Guild of Students, UWI Mona Campus.