ISSUE 18 March 2016 ISSUE 18 : March 2016 Contents Discourse 31 The Graduate Placement Programme 1 Cave Hill Goes Global 32 Finding the Right Fit A PUBLICATION OF 33 UWI 101 in Session THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, News CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS 2 Barriteau Sets Out Roadmap Sport 3 UWI in Zika Fight 34 Shane Taylor - The Rugby We welcome your comments and feedback 3 Honours and Distinctions Playing ‘Biochemist’ which can be directed to 4 Sargassum: The Search 36 The UWI Rallies ’Round Dominica [email protected] for Solutions or Chill c/o Marketing Officer, 38 Triple Delight UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 6 Asian Experience 41 Help for Footballers to Go Pro Bridgetown BB11000. Barbados 7 Graduate Students Launch Tel: (246) 417-4057 / (246) 417-7629 Online Magazine 7 Cave Hill Triumphs in People CO-EDITORS: Energy Competition 42 Region Welcomes a New Leader Chelston Lovell 8 Parkhill’s Parting Gift 44 Landis New Deputy Principal Janet Caroo 8 Economists Receive 45 Samuels Takes up CONSULTANT EDITOR: Global Attention CDRC Leadership Dawne Parris 9 Empowerment Scholarship 45 Adams Heads Faculty CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Rasheeta Dorant 10 Cave Hill First Choice of Medical Sciences PHOTO EDITOR: 12 Latino Surge To Learn English Lisa Yarde Research 14 Partnering to Improve Health EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: 46 Seaweed Breakthrough Lisa Yarde 15 Social Scientists Mark Milestone 48 Vehicle Power 15 Probing Social and CONTRIBUTORS: Economic Issues Timothy Arthur Don-Marie Holder 71 Change Ahoy Around Campus Cynthia Barrow-Giles Tennyson Joseph, PhD 49 Focus On Early Childhood Jacqueline Benn, PhD Jeannine Knight Awards Development Marsha Boyce Andrea Veira 49 In Honour of Allsopps 16 Repeat Awardee Among Barbara Chase Prof. Hilbourne Principal’s Awards for 50 Student-friendly Study Spaces Watson, PhD Cherrell Connell Excellence Recipients 51 The Gift of Literacy WILLCOMM Janice 18 CERMES in Winners Row Cumberbatch, PhD UWI Alumni Association Dawn-Marie Ellis 19 Doing the Double Publications (Circle K) UWI Centre 20 Creatives Rewarded 52 A History of the Caribbean on National Stage Examinations Council PHOTOGRAPHY: 21 To Sir with Honour 54 Visualizing Slavery Barbados Brendon Duncan Accreditation Council Steven Daniel Duke of Edinburgh Student Centered Perspective ShamarPrescod.com Award International 22 A Trew Adventurer 55 Crisis of Capitalism Barbados Shane Taylor Kenmore Bynoe Georgina Trew 24 Supporting Students of 61 Academics Tout Global Africa Different Abilities Brian Elcock WILLCOMM 62 Call for Action at End 26 ‘Fresh Coat’ for UWI of Colloquium 28 Students Focus on Dangers of 64 In Breach of Caribbean Cover Design: Alcohol and Drug Abuse Political Thought Paul Gibbs 30 Make Effective Use of Interns 66 Analysis of the Grenada 31 Intern Retraces Her Journey Revolution Printed in Barbados. © 2016 Discourse DISCOURSE Cave Hill Goes Global am deeply honoured to assume the leadership of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, as its fifth Principal. It is I truly humbling to realise that my tenure signals a number of firsts for my alma mater. As the first woman appointed as Principal, I am simultaneously the first Cave Hill graduate and the first from the Faculty of Social Sciences - the largest faculty to lead the Campus. Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, GCM This is all capped by the fact that I required to effect the desired social Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, am the first OECS citizen to be so and economic advancement of UWI, Cave Hill Campus. appointed. I am aware that I am this region, is the transformation leading Cave Hill at a time when our of university education. As higher inter-disciplinarity and creating a Caribbean countries are experiencing education continues to be student- culture of internationalisation are numerous social and economic centred, there is urgent need for paramount. challenges. Nonetheless I believe renewed pedagogical strategies, more while this period is difficult, it is not ICT infrastructure, greater efficiency Within this edition we deliberately daunting. of the funding models, universality of focus on our students at work and access, a more concentrated centering at play. You will find ample evidence The Caribbean region, like the Cave of technical and vocational education of how Cave Hill is internationalizing Hill Campus, will not be defined by its in higher education and a greater its environment and enriching the current circumstances. I am excited to focus on science and technology, student experience by providing them work with a dedicated management that is not detrimental to the liberal with international perspectives and and campus community to deliver arts and other academic disciplines. global adventure. By opening our doors to Barbados and the region our best Supplementing these adjustments to greater and diverse numbers of educational goods and services to is the mandatory requirement that international students, our teaching advance Caribbean development. universities internationalise their and recreational spaces are more Caribbean people know how to operations in order to remain relevant. reflective of a global environment. negotiate tough times, whether by The current imperative for universities Transforming the academy to make it “cutting and contriving”, adaptation, or to prepare students to compete in more responsive to today’s world will allowing necessity to be the mother of a more technologically-driven global require the adoption of unconventional innovation and invention. Throughout environment, has meant giving them methodologies in as much as it will the centuries, our citizens have shown greater and diverse exposure to require the forging of new alliances, irrepressible valour and resilience, international cultures and norms to as we search for new ways to fulfill qualities again required in abundance broaden and enrich their student our mission and new stakeholders to as the university seeks to give experience. This is done through join us on our journey. Our task of guidance to the Caribbean in navigating enhancing study abroad opportunities, educating the region remains central the current economic and social increasing the international student to our mandate and requires firm and turbulence, hereby reinforcing our cohort and facilitating international steady hands of commitment. relevance to host country and region. relationships. While we cannot say I am firmly dedicated to this task and Underpinning some of the changes with precision the type of jobs that will confident of guiding the affairs of comprise tomorrow’s The UWI Cave Hill towards a brighter “Within this edition we deliberately focus on our workforce, one fact future. I look forward to doing so seems certain: those with the support of our management students at work and at play. You will find ample jobs will require team, governments, the corporate evidence of how Cave Hill is internationalizing its being able to relate sector, many friends and well-wishers, environment and enriching the student experience to people of different among whom exists ‘a coalition of the by providing them with international perspectives cultural backgrounds. committed.’ ∏ and global adventure.” Hence, training in CHILL NEWS 1 News Barriteau Sets Out Roadmap NEWS Barriteau Sets Out Roadmap state-of-the-art Faculty of A Science and Technology, an intensified thrust in that realm of pedagogy supported by cutting- edge academic programmes, a research-driven agenda for regional development and a deepening of educational linkages in the international community. These were among some of the dominant L-R: Dr. Wang Ban Tai, Executive Chairman Global Institute of Software Technology; Professor features of a blueprint which The University Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, UWI and Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Principal and Principal Cave Hill Campus. and Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Eudine regional development financing agency, Barriteau has been sharing with university will open up learning vistas and expand the principal said. stakeholders and others, for advancing the horizons for students. In this partnership with Campus under her stewardship and returning Professor Barriteau also pointed to a our colleagues from China, we are together the institution to financial solvency. Memorandum of Understanding signed on paving a way to the future for citizens who February 19, 2016 between The UWI and will be able to contribute immeasurably to “An assessment of the physical plant of the the Suzhou Institute of Software Technology the social and economic development of their Faculty of Science and Technology showed a in China, for the establishment of a UWI- countries.” dire need for modern science and technology China Institute of Information Technology, infrastructure, including laboratories and other The principal noted, too, that the newly as indicative of the type of expansionary specialized facilities, in order to bring it in line established Centre for Food Security and undertaking she will be seeking as part of with 21st Century requirements,” Professor Entrepreneurship, which will also be located The UWI’s internationalization strategy. Barriteau said. in the City where it will function under the That MOU sets out operational guidelines for Faculty of Science and Technology, is gearing She pointed out that the majority of existing the Caribbean and the China-based Institute, up to roll out a suite of innovative, research- facilities have been in place