Issue 8 October 2008 ISSUE 8 : Oct ‘08 Contents A PUBLICATION OF THE INFORMATION DISCOURSE CAMPUS FOCUS AND MARKETING OFFICE, 2 Facing the Future with 20 SEED THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS. Confidence 22 WI 60th anniversary celebrations NEWS 23 Open Campus We welcome your comments and 3 Celebrating our Alumni feedback which can be directed 23 IT expansion Leaders to [email protected] 24 Hector Media Centre or Chill c/o Marketing Office, 4 Honorary Graduands 25 Cave Hill Medical Faculty UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 5 PM Thompson addresses Bridgetown BB11000 benefactor awards Barbados STUDENT CENTERED Tel: (246) 417-4057 6 UWI Consulting 26 Veera Bhajan 7 Leadership Summit 27 Record Higher Degrees CO-EDITORS: 7 Education Evaluation Centre Chelston Lovell 27 Puerto Rico Exchange Janet Caroo 8 Homage to African Roots 28 HIV and Aids response 8 Angola University MOU CONSULTANT EDITOR: 28 Kyle Corbin Korah Belgrave 9 Spirit of Enterprise 9 Arthur’s UWI Office CONTRIBUTORS AWARDS Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles Carmel Haynes 29 Vice Chancellor Awards Prof. Semeon McIntosh Ona Harewood PARTNERSHIP 30 UWI Press Awards Andrea Bernett Prof. Christine Barrow 11 Barbados Business Machines Gayle Alleyne Sonia Johnson 31 Prof. James Millette Bernard Babb Steven R. Leslie 12 Barbados International Kathy-Ann Caesar Roy Morris Business Association Marcia Erskine Lawrence Pologne ARTS 12 US Embassy in Barbados Tara Gaskin Kim Whitehall 32 BIM 33 Gaining Productivity PHOTOGRAPHY: SPORTS 34 European Union Law Cover Image – David Marshall 13 VC XI vs. Australia Nation Newspaper Library Vice Chancellor’s Office 14 WICB Academy RESEARCH Government of Belize 14 Reifer’s Record Government of Grenada 33 Dalhousie University MOU SAGICOR 15 30/30 Inter-Parish cricket 34 Caribbean Institute for Office of Planning and Development, Cave Hill competition Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Committee Meteorology and Hydrology PEOPLE 35 Marine Governance DESIGN & LAYOUT: Leaf Design Inc. 16 Prof. Eudine Barriteau programme PRINTED BY: COT Caribbean Graphics 17 Roland Butcher 36 Asthma 19 Prof. E.R. “Mickey” Walrond CHILL NEWS | 1 CHILL Discourse Facing the future with confidence s the 21st Century unfolds, We believe that countries which are able it is already evident that to fashion their young people into a Auniversities in developing new class of vibrant, forward-thinking countries must be nimble, responsive individuals, equipped with what they need and generally inventive in order to to make their own way in the world, will remain relevant. Nowhere is this be able to offer their citizens a better shown more clearly than in the various standard of living in the new globalised positions adopted by the University economy. of the West Indies in respect of the Co-incidentally, it was just a few weeks challenges in the economic, trade ahead of SEED’s unveiling that Prime and financial conditions facing the Minister David Thompson disclosed Caribbean. that it was his Government’s intention As a partner in the process towards to move the number of self-employed development, we at the Cave Hill Campus entrepreneurs from the current ten per Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, cent of the working population to 20 Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Principal, of the UWI see our role as that of Cave Hill Campus facilitator, and sometimes projector, in per cent by 2016. This should be viewed assisting the country and wider region to against the background that more than meet their goals. 70 per cent of all new jobs created We could not agree more with Minister of In 2008 we took many important decisions, worldwide over the past decade were by State in the Ministry of Finance, Senator but particularly significant were two taken small businesses. Darcy Boyce when he said at the opening in September that signaled the coming of By clearly understanding its developmental of SEED: “Stimulating entrepreneurship is age of the institution. Together they leave role in the economies of the region, Cave a critical dimension in the development no doubt that the university is in tune with Hill is now well placed to partner with of business and industry. Our education the people it serves. Government and the private sector in this system therefore has a role to play in The first of these relates to the expansion initiative. fashioning behaviours while promoting of the Faculty of Medial Sciences. It “…countries which the capability to be creative.” took in its first cohort of more than 40 Similarly, we cannot but endorse the Barbadian, Caribbean and international are able to fashion comments of Professor Henry Fraser, Dean students when the semester opened just of the Faculty of Medical Sciences when six weeks ago. their young people he said there was a need for the medical After offering programmes that covered faculty in Barbados to address local years four and five of the full MBBS degree into a new class of medical requirements and also to cater to for 40 years, in a country that celebrates the demand for more trained doctors to an exemplary medical health system, the vibrant, forward- serve in the countries of the region. expansion seemed long overdue. thinking individuals…. “We want to build on (our) reputation Also in September, we unveiled the … to project the UWI as the best quality Student Entrepreneurial Empowerment will be able to offer university in the developing world…,” he Development (SEED), programme to the said. campus community. This development their citizens a better As more of the development programmes demonstrates an awareness that the for Cave Hill are unveiled in the coming campus administration and faculty, standard of living in months, we assure our partners, supporters responsible for fashioning the future of and most of all the students whom we thousands of young minds, recognise the new globalised serve that the campus will continue to clearly that creating an entrepreneurial illustrate its relevance to the local and ethos among graduates represents the economy.” regional developmental agenda. way forward. 2 | CHILL NEWS CHILL News Celebrating our Alumni Leaders he Cave Hill Campus has UWI honours graduates who have received outstanding introduced a new way of saluting recognition in their career field or sporting endeavour, have the achievements of some of its T performed noteworthy, compassionate, humanitarian or most illustrious graduates. community service that enriched the lives of others, or who In April, the Campus heralded the start have shown exceptional personal or professional contribution of its Alumnus of the Month Award, with and dedication to the goals and objectives of UWI. Prime Minister of Barbados, the Hon. David Thompson, copping the inaugural accolade. April May Hon. David J. H. Thompson Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow Thompson, a 1984 graduate of the Faculty Prime Minister of Barbados Prime Minister of Belize of Law and a founding member of the Cave April Faculty of Law 1981-84 Faculty of Law 1970-1973 Hill’s Alumni Circle, became his country’s sixth Prime Minister following general elections June last January. Professor V. Eudine Barriteau Since then honourees have included In recognition of her Prime Minister of Belize, the Hon. Dean contribution to the Barrow, his Grenadian counterpart, the advancement of scholarship Hon. Tillman Thomas, Deputy Principal on feminist/gender studies, regionally and internationally. and former Head of the Centre for Gender Faculty of Social Sciences – 1980 Studies at the Cave Hill Campus, Professor Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian senator July Kerry-Ann Ifill, veteran business executive Senator Kerry-Ann Ifill Dodridge Miller and Chief Justice Hugh Rawlins of the Eastern Caribbean Court Deputy President of the May June Barbados Senate of Justice. In recognition of her The awardees have been recognised for continued advancement of their respective achievements of excellence the professional stature and societal contribution of visually which have brought prestige to their impaired persons. tertiary alma mater and their local, regional Faculty of Social Sciences 1999 or international community in a manner which now renders them role models for current students of UWI. Photographs of August these distinguished graduates are hung on Hon. Tillman J Thomas Prime Minister of Grenada the Alumni Wall of Honour in the lobby of the main administrative building of the Faculty of Law 1973-1976 Campus. July August The Alumni of the Month awardees are September chosen from those UWI graduates who The Hon. Hugh Anthony Rawlins have received outstanding recognition Chief Justice of the Eastern in their career field or sporting Caribbean Supreme Court. endeavour, have performed noteworthy, Faculty of Law 1980-1983 compassionate, humanitarian or community service that enriched the lives of others, or who have shown exceptional October personal or professional contribution and Dodridge D. Miller dedication to the goals and objectives In recognition of his contribution to innovation in of UWI. the financial services sector. Nominations should be sent to the selection Faculty of Law 2006 committee via the UWI Office of Alumni September October Association at UWI Cave Hill, Barbados. CHILL NEWS | 3 CHILL News Honorary Graduands Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Baroness Scotland Dodridge Miller Sir Peter Moores Professor Cardinal Warde Tutu II of Ghana he 2008 Cave Hill graduation will The 2008 Cave Hill exemplary leadership in the financial sector. include the presence of African Mr Miller is President and CEO of one of the Troyalty and British peerage when it graduation will honour largest financial institutions in the region, comes off on October 25. Sagicor Financial Corporation, which he has an Asante King, also introduced into the financial markets of Five persons will receive honorary degrees at Europe and the USA. the Cave Hill ceremony slated for the Garfield a Baroness, a physicist, Sobers Gymnasium, as a record 16 illustrious The five honourees at the St Augustine citizens have honorary doctorates conferred a philanthropist and a ceremonies will include two women – Mrs on them at the University of the West Indies prominent entrepreneur.