ISSUE 9 : April ‘09 Contents A PUBLICATION OF THE INFORMATION DISCOURSE CAMPUS FOCUS AND MARKETING OFFICE, 2 University will drive progress 20 Enhancing quality THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS. 21 Teaching Certificate NEWS 22 Strategies to combat We welcome your comments and 3 Walcott Warner Theatre literacy challenges feedback which can be directed to [email protected] 4 Examining the crisis 23 Cave Hill Evening or Chill c/o Marketing Office, 5 Globalisation a failure? 24 Total quality at Cave Hill UWI, Cave Hill Campus, 6 Observations on Bridgetown BB11000 Barbados economic turmoil STUDENT CENTERED Tel: (246) 417-4057 / (246) 231-8430 8 Surviving the meltdown 26 Minding your business 9 Call for UWI-led solutions 27 SEED Testimonials CO-EDITORS: Chelston Lovell 10 Taking tourism forward 28 Study in Colombia Janet Caroo 11 Contractor’s solid stance 29 On-the-job learning CONSULTANT EDITOR: on technology 30 Understanding Dyslexia Korah Belgrave 12 CIMH opens its doors 31 Jo’s Journey CONTRIBUTORS 12 Gender summer programme ARTS Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles Andrea Wharton Dr Andrea Sealy Lesley Walcott PARTNERSHIP 33 Poui milestone Bernard Babb Katheryn Stewart 13 ¡Los Venezolanos Kathy-Ann Caesar Dr Curwen Best 34 A Monument Marcia Erskine Eduardo Ali hablan íngles! for Moses Carmel Haynes Dr Anthony Fisher 14 UWI makes a creative link 35 Tribute to Colly Sonia Johnson Dr Stacy Blackman Steven R. Leslie Prof. Jane Bryce 14 Legal aid 35 Life’s like a play… Roy Morris Rhonda Walcott 36 Best on Brathwaite Kim Whitehall Johanan Lafeuillee SPORTS & Okigbo PHOTOGRAPHY: 15 Sagicor UCC Cover Image – David Marshall 36 Revisiting the Federation Bernard Babb 15 Roaring to glory in 2009 Hadyn Rhynd 16 A Diamond shining at study RESEARCH Nation Newspaper Library Vice Chancellor’s Office and at play 37 Probing poverty Office of Planning and Development, Cave Hill 16 Sagicor Super Cup 2008 and crime Cover image: L–R Nobel Laureate 17 CCC journey to excellence 38 Serving society through Derek Walcott and George Lamming Research in conversation at the naming ceremony of the Walcott Warner AWARDS 39 Academics tackle Theatre, EBCCI, Cave Hill Campus. 18 Science of Peace Award economic challenges 18 Howard University 40 Giant African Snail DESIGN & LAYOUT: Leaf Design Inc. honours UWI VC PRINTED BY: COT Printery 19 Honouring women CHILL NEWS | 1 CHILL Discourse University will drive progress he value of The University of the West Indies to the development of Barbados and the wider region Tcannot be measured only in the number of students it graduates but also in its overall contribution to our sustained development. Anyone who doubts the value of a university to a nation’s progress only needs to compare communities which host a campus to those which have no such institution. The presence of a relevant university changes the dynamics and trajectory of a society. Its role is to help the entire culture to rise – everything we do, how we speak, how we behave, our cultural expressions, the arts, how we care for the elderly, how we nurture our children, suppress domestic violence, enhance the respect for the environment – all of these actions constitute the value a university can bring to lift a people to a higher level of comprehension. Barbados has been blessed with a vibrant academy whose intellectual community sprang from a vision for tertiary education which has been carefully assessed and sustained. We at Cave Hill Campus are faced with the challenge of staying true to the vision of our founding father, the Rt Excellent Errol Barrow, and the policy of higher education for the government of the day. It remains a fundamental marker for the senior management and one which we deal with each time the stakeholders of the University – the governments, private sector, international donor community, as well as the students and alumni community – are engaged. [The role of a university] is to help the entire culture to rise – everything we do, how we speak, how we behave, our cultural expressions, the arts, how we care for the elderly, how we nurture our children, suppress domestic violence, enhance the respect for the environment – all of these actions constitute the value a university can bring to lift a people to a higher level of comprehension. Our challenge is that of making sure our regional community is highly educated in skilled and relevant ways to survive in a turbulent 21st century. How are we going to make sure that Barbados and the region, without an abundance of natural resources, can maintain its position as a competitive civilisation in the years going forward? How are we going to plan for that? How are we going to strategise it? How are we going to cost it? How are we going to budget it? How are we going to put it all together to make sure that these nations survive with respect? Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Principal, Cave Hill Campus We are hearing conversations about failed nations and failed states. However, we are determined that the jurisdictions we serve will not be classified as such, because we believe that our An edited excerpt from an address by Sir Hilary Beckles to the university will play a positive, transforming, developmental role. Democratic Labour Party’s luncheon in January 2009. 2 | CHILL NEWS CHILL News heir works have graced many stages across the globe. Now the names of two of the Caribbean’s cultural icons, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and late theater director and dramaturge Earl Warner, are permanently Tinscribed at the entrance to one of the theatres which have showcased their talent. Main Picture: Derek Walcott and the widow of Earl Warner, Karen Forde. Inset: The late Earl Warner. The two were given the enduring recognition ought to be,” Sir Hilary said. “We are the US, where he teaches Literature and Creative at a naming ceremony in December that was producers of the finest artistes in the world Writing. His experience of the Caribbean and attended by Walcott, Warner’s widow, Karen and we don’t have the finest facilities to of living between two cultures has strongly Ford-Warner, and members of their families. celebrate their work.” influenced his work. Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Cave An “honoured and very touched” Walcott Unapologetically Caribbean Hill Campus, Sir Hilary Beckles, in his remarks reminisced about Warner’s “ability to judge Warner, (1952-1998) has been described as during the ceremony, gave an account of the the performance of an actor and to illuminate “distinctly and unapologetically Caribbean” transformation of the space that now holds it in explaining why you enjoyed it”. in his approach to interpreting work for the the complex, describing what existed before Ford-Warner said of her late husband: stage. His formal training includes a Bachelor as rab land and gully. “Of course we wanted “I believe that Earl would have appreciated of Arts degree in drama as well as a post- to bring the spirits of our great artistes into being associated with such an attractive new graduate diploma in directing and theatre in the space as a standard for our students and theatre in a building that fosters and celebrates education from the University of Manchester, for the community . ,” Sir Hilary said. “We creative imagination…” England. Additionally he gained the Diploma really hope that the students who are going to in Theatre Arts from the Jamaica School of be using these facilities, the artistic community, Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature Drama, Edna Manley College for the Visual will take the lessons of the journeys of … these in 1992, has written many plays for stage and and Performing Arts, where he would later great artistes, not only to celebrate them, but radio, including Dream on Monkey Mountain become a member of faculty. to seek to emulate them.” and Ti-Jean and his Brothers (both published in ’Dream on Monkey Mountain: And Other Warner was the 1979-1980 Granada Fellow The principal added that in naming the Plays, 1972)’, and ‘Pantomime’ (published as to the Department of Drama, University of theatre after Walcott and Warner University Remembrance and Pantomime, 1980). He has Manchester and the OAS Artist in Residence, administrators were hoping to capture as also collaborated on several musicals. Born in Edna Manley College for the Visual and much of the joy, pain and creativity of these St. Lucia in 1930, he studied at the University Performing Arts 1988-1989. He was made a respected and renowned artistes as possible in College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. member of the prestigious World Consortium the enterprise. He moved to Trinidad in 1953, became a of Directors in 1993 and is often thought of Finest artistes theatre and art critic, and taught in schools as a theatre practitioner who felt strongly that “We have heard Derek on so many occasions in the Caribbean until 1957, then becoming Caribbean people must rediscover their own lamenting the fact that our governments do a journalist. He founded the Trinidad Theatre flavour and distinctive traits, that “we must not invest enough in our physical infrastructure Workshop in 1959, and has since divided sing our own song”. for theatre, that the region is not treated as it his time between St. Lucia, Trinidad and the CHILL NEWS | 3 CHILL News iven all that has happened in the world economy in the past three Gdecades, says former Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados and Examining the diplomat, Sir Courtney Blackman, anyone who still believes that the free market is self regulating and will always result in balanced outcomes, should be lumped with people who still hold to the view economic crisis that the earth is flat.