ISSUE 13 March 2012 EBCCI Five Years of Cultural Engagement ISSUE 13 : March 2012 In this issue... Discourse 32 Kalinago Showcase 2 Producing Global Citizens 33 Students told: Champion News Regional Integration A PUBLICATION OF THE OFFICE OF STUDENT, 3 Powering Our Way CORPORATE AND ALUMNI RELATIONS, Into The Future International THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, 34 Exchange Programme Fosters CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS 5 UWI teams up with Yale in Global Ties Chronic Disease Study 36 Finding the Finnish We welcome your comments and feedback 5 Toussaint’s Way which can be directed to 6 Writing Barbados into History 38 3Ws Oval Judged The Best [email protected] or Chill c/o Marketing Officer, 6 Cave Hill Salutes a Benefactor UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Publications Bridgetown BB11000 39 In Search of Asylum Barbados Awards 40 Preserving Paradise Tel: (246) 417-4057 / (246) 231-8430 8 Education for Development 9 Chancellor’s Medal Bestowed 42 Women in Caribbean Politics on Sir Shridath 42 Decolonization in St. Lucia CO-EDITORS: Chelston Lovell 0 Proud Legacy of Achievement 43 Illustrious West Indians Janet Caroo 2 Principal’s Awards 43 China’s Major Book Donation CONSULTANT EDITOR: Korah Belgrave Sport Research CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Gayle Alleyne 3 Sporting Experience Thrills 44 Charting Credit Union Progress Foreign Students EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: 45 Doctors Missing a Beat in Lisa Yarde 4 Cave Hill - InterCampus Games Hypertension Treatment Champions CONTRIBUTORS: 46 CERMES Prepares for a Koelle Boyce Sonia Johnson 9 Athletes on the Pro Track Predator Jeremy Bradshaw Charmaine Joseph 47 Chronic Illnesses Hold Natasha Corbin Roseann Maxwell Campus Focus Royal Interest Halimah Deshong, PhD Ivy Pitt 20 Quality Revolution 48 Caribbean Collaboration with Anthony Fisher, PhD Amanda Reifer Germany on Biogas 22 Special Students: Special Needs Cozier Frederick Carla Springer 49 Renewable Energy on Campus Sylvia Henry, PhD Barbados Today Julia Horrocks, PhD People Arts Tara Innis, PhD 24 Professor Henry Fraser 50 Marking Five Years of Cultural PHOTOGRAPHY: 24 Human Rights in Focus Promotion – EBCCI Cover Image 25 Kim Baldwin 52 Harking Back to a Hero’s Call Steven Daniel 26 Keeley Holder David Marshall CERMES Educational Media Services, Alumni Cave Hill Campus 28 Chief Justice Marston Gibson PHOTACC Barbados Museum and Historical Society COVER STORY Barbados Today Student Centered Geneal St. Clair, Antonio Miller 30 Cave Hill Wins Case Analysis undergraduate The Nation Library Competition student in Seven Tonalities of Blue 3 Planting a Seed in the EBCCI End 3 Business Sector Pledges of Year Student to Recruit Interns 50 Presentations 2010 CHILL NEWS DISCOURSE Producing Global Citizens reparing university students to be competitive in a global workforce P means they must not only be nurtured on academic excellence but nourished in an environment that offers Professor Sir Hilary Beckles an international experience. The latter is critical for students to benchmark their skills and knowledge against any academic Our staff recruitment and student gold standard. enrollment are derived from Adequate tutelage by competent and dedicated sufficiently diverse backgrounds faculty can contribute to the nurturing that is needed. Acquiring international experience, however, even in as to make the Cave Hill a world-class learning environment, may prove more challenging as this may require that students be academic journey a much sought exposed to multicultural rather than “monocultural” after intercultural experience. perspectives. At The UWI, Cave Hill, through strategic transformation of the learning environment to offer our students an One significance consequence of this growing influx of international education, we have long embarked on international students is the emergence of a burgeoning the process being referred to as internationalization in educational tourism sector. Cave Hill has become a the higher education discourse. Our staff recruitment major contributor in the economic development of its and student enrollment are derived from sufficiently host country, not only through the applied knowledge of diverse backgrounds as to make the Cave Hill its graduates, but also the expenditure of an expanding academic journey a much sought after intercultural cohort of fee-paying students and their visiting friends experience. and relatives. It is a pleasing development which amply In addition, dozens of university partnership demonstrates symbiosis between the academy and agreements, many of them initialed since the creation its funding stakeholders as the university pursues its of our International Office in August 2008, currently traditional role of teaching and research. While searching facilitate student exchanges around the world. Apart for solutions to existing social and economic problems, our from the traditional areas of Europe, the UK, the demonstrated ability to meet our mandate and contribute United States and Canada, Cave Hill students now to our own upkeep by adding revenue to the state coffers have the option to study in China, Brazil, Morocco, is a notable achievement. Portugal, Finland, Sweden, Argentina and increasingly We also believe it is a lesson in self-reliance worthy of points beyond while students from across the globe emulation by our graduates in whom we aim to dissolve are queuing up to visit our shores for their Cave Hill the state dependency syndrome and imbue with a culture encounter. The exchange is an enriching experience of innovation and confidence as they venture into the for all involved. global job market. ∏ 2 CHILL NEWS NEWS Right - Renata Goodrich (L) and Glendon Pile from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences inspect the UWI Photovoltaic panels Inset - Glendon Pile gives a demonstration to Afi Farrell Powering our way into the future iming to transform Barbados into a resource efficient green based careers, economy, The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill has received a major boost A positioned itself to be a model example of renewable energy use through agreements – embarking on critical international collaborations to help the island negotiated by Dr. achieve its goal. Anthony Fisher, Cave Hill’s Director of It is currently transforming the Study – of a collaboration between Campus into a Renewable Energy the government of Barbados and External Relations, Technology Demonstration Centre, the United Nations Environment which will build Dr. Anthony Fisher capacity at the Campus thus seeking to help lower the Programme (UNEP). Stuart defined island’s import bills which are a green economy in the Barbadian to conduct biofuels research. adversely affected by the high cost of context as “an integrated production, One such agreement between fuel imports. Spearheading several distribution, and waste assimilation the Cave Hill Campus and BioJet research and practical initiatives to system that, at its core, reflects International (www.biojetcorp.com) reduce expenditure on fossil energy, the fragility of our small island establishes a biosciences research Cave Hill is eyeing the production of ecosystems,” adding that a green and commercial partnership. BioJet environmentally friendly biofuels for economy offers a multi-pronged International is a global leader long-term economic sustainability. response to the crises in climate, across the supply chain in renewable This follows Prime Minister fuel, food, water and the financial (bio) jet fuel and related co- Freundel Stuart’s announcement system. products, including green diesel for of March 2011 that his Cabinet had Cave Hill’s objectives of establishing the aviation and related commercial agreed to Cave Hill Campus being strategic international partnerships transportation sectors. The firm’s a “technical partner” in the first to foster more applied research operations span the entire biofuel phase – Green Economy Scoping programmes and create new science- Continued on Page 4 CHILL NEWS 3 NEWS Continued from Page 3 company and we see UWI-Cave Hill as a chain, including the generation of valuable partner in feedstock, technology, refining, the future success logistics, sustainability certification of our operations. and distribution and eventual The July 1, 2011 end use by the aviation sector approval of ASTM worldwide. BioJet is also the first I n t e r n a t i o n a l Alternative Fuels Strategic Partner allowing 50 percent of the International Air Transport blends of aviation Association. biofuel derived (L-R) President of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) Cedric The partnership is intended to from feedstocks develop UWI-Cave Hill’s capacity Murrell; Prime Minister of Barbados, Hon. Freundel such as camelina, Stuart and Prof Sir Hilary Beckles at the launch of for research into renewable energy jatropha and microalgae is a the Greening Scoping Study technologies, whether from plant, game-changing decision for waste biomass or algae, as well the worldwide transportation as new graduate careers in energy industry and opens up tremendous being able to upgrade to commercial biosciences, and those pertinent opportunities for both UWI and production of biofuels. to the logistics and supply chain Biojet International.” management of biofuel distribution. Similarly, the world renowned As part of the agreement, BioJet J. Craig Venter Institute (www.jcv. The will fund the creation of the org) has agreed to partner with UWI United Nations UWI/Biojet International Biofuel in providing students and researchers Environmental