news C a s UWI u ISSUE 12 January 2011 ve p H m CHILL ill Ca ISSUE 12 : January 2011 In this issue... Discourse Sport 2 Finding Meaning in 30 Restoring a Legacy Great Loss 32 Rise and Fall of the IPL 33 UWI Games 2011 A PUBLICATION OF THE OFFICE OF STUDENT, Focus CORPORATE AND ALUMNI RELATIONS, 34 Cricketing Glory on the Hill THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, 3 Honouring the Past CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS Student Centered News We welcome your comments and feedback 35 Sky’s the Limit 4 Open for Business which can be directed to 36 Meds Making their Rounds [email protected] 4 Sir George Alleyne or Chill c/o Marketing Officer, 37 Debaters Impress at 5 Sir Sidney’s Papers UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Copenhagen Bridgetown BB11000 5 Saluting a Linguist 38 Our Experience at the Barbados 6 Teaching Exemplars Montreal Neurological Tel: (246) 417-4057 / (246) 231-8430 Institute 7 Rhodes Scholars 0 Running Ring’s Social CO-EDITORS: Publications Chelston Lovell Work Agenda Janet Caroo Outward Reach 40 The Way We See It CONSULTANT EDITOR: 4 Caribbean Creatives Korah Belgrave Partnership 42 Her Own Daughter EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: 3 SEED Capital Lisa Yarde Research CONTRIBUTORS: 3 US Support Brittany Carter Dr. Keith Nurse 4 Innovate, Go Green 42 Obesity comes under Dorthy Teague Latoya Latibeadiere & Go Global Scrutiny Elizabeth Watson Leroy Aldophus 6 Staying in Business 43 Warning to Diabetics Gayle Alleyne Lyn-Marie Deane 44 Annual Health Day Sir Hilary Beckles Nicole Simpson Isha Emmanuel Patricia Atherley Around Campus 45 Education: The Best Weapon to Combat HIV/AIDS Stigma Julia Horrocks Sonia Johnson 8 A Beacon that Binds Kean Gibson Dr. Sylvia Henry 46 Making Fisheries More Awards Resilient PHOTOGRAPHY: 47 Saving Sea Turtles Cover Image – Bernard Babb 9 Pan Africanists Emma Doyle 20 Honourary Graduands David Garner Chill Out 2 Singing Caribbean Studio Studio 48 all abt thumbing thru life Vice Chancellor’s Office Women’s Success 48 No Hang Ups Over Office of Planning and Development, 22 Awards for Excellence Cave Hill Campus Phone Use Educational Media Centre, Cave Hill Campus The Nation Library People news The West Indies Federal Archives Centre C 23 Justice Burgess s a UWI u ve p H m CHILL ill Ca COVER STORY Cermes 23 Professor Carnegie Barbados Today Cave Hill Barbados Advocate 24 Pearl Williams Remembers the 26 Hon. David Thompson Late Prime Minister David Thompson 28 Robert Leyshon 3 CHILL NEWS DISCOURSE Finding Meaning in The untimely loss of David, one of Great Loss the finest young minds we have nstitutions of higher learning, like other living produced, has served to remind organisms, exist as moral and aesthetic entities. IThey produce, reproduce and experience us of the need to remain focused membership loss. And so it was with us when as a scholarly community... we experienced the loss of Prime Minister David Thompson. As a student in our academy he was known for legal fraternity especially has a special remit as he was his intellectual acumen. There, in the cauldron of a star within its firmament. The need for legal vigilance oftentimes acerbic discourse, he built a reputation is the lesson before us, especially as the global economic which served him well when he entered public life recession threatens to create an employment and social as a politician. We would like to think that he was context conducive to the rolling back of hard won rights well prepared by his peers, professors, and others and expectations. In this regard, the university has a within who have served the Cave Hill Campus with special role to play in sharpening social sensitivities in distinction. Ours is a community with a single purpose; respect of human rights and social justice. All we do should to serve the Caribbean nation with the provision of be dedicated to the objective of human development that human resources well honed for the task of social speaks to improvement in the quality of life of citizens. Our and economic development. university was created to serve our people. With the loss It is no simple achievement that a university such as of Prime Minister Thompson we feel even more keenly the ours has consistently delivered upon its promise within urgency and importance of the service of creating public persistent contexts of acute investment shortages. leaders of quality and distinction. ∏ That it continues to produce quality graduates who are able to enter the world of service and meet global standards of excellence is a matter that must never be undervalued or go without appropriate celebration. The untimely loss of David, one of the finest young minds we have produced, has served to remind us of the need to remain focused as a scholarly community in the face of reactionary adversity and doubt about the value of our role. David was undoubtedly a symbol of achievement within the alumni community, but he was more, much more. He was an advocate of the values of human rights, social equality, and democratic freedom. These are the values that have informed the mission of our university and which we have promoted and defended vigorously. No other framework of purpose will suffice within a civilisation still scarred by a past known primarily for its social injustices and endemic violations of human rights. The search for a socially meaningful freedom within the communities we serve should therefore be intensified in the aftermath of David’s departure. The Cave Hill Campus new development at Paradise Park 2 CHILL NEWS Late Prime Minister David PEOPLEFOCUS Thompson and his wife Mara on his last official visit to Cave Hill Campus. Honouring the Past, Charting the Vision by Sir Hilary Beckles in the history of modern Barbados light, possessed of considerable democracy underwent such a might, but too many did not wish to rime Minister, The Hon. rigorous public examination. This, of be in too close a range of his sight. David Thompson received course, is not without good reason. Owen (Arthur), the masses kept the enormous weight of P No politician entered the arena so going, but part of the elite within national leadership at a time when entirely burdened with a full bag of his clan continually held back its his political philosophy was still in blessings. blessing. Sir Harold (St. John) and Sir the making. It was a time, for sure, Lloyd (Erskine Sandiford), good men when his youthful, caring spirit was But he was his own man, uniquely to the core, were uprooted before still uncomfortable with wearing blended, unlike any leader who had their seeds could grow. But David, and wielding a sharpened machete gone before, except perhaps Samuel alas, was the king with the one within the political culture he had Jackman Prescod, whom he politically ring. He held the respect and loyalty eventually mastered. resembled, the greatest professional politician and representative of to bind them all. And therein is the It was a difficult time for him, not public opinion the country has yet cost of the loss, too large to charge. being sure whether to foreground and produced. Grantley (Adams) was the Destiny has driven us to despair in fast track the acquisition of generous Moses who delivered the masses, the dark; prospects pulled as nature maturity and laid back wisdom, or but was feared by the Pharaohs; ravished our reason before our to acquire quickly the mastery of (The Right Excellent) Errol (Barrow) opened eyes. Machiavellian machinations. While rolled out the road into the Promised Like Charles Duncan O’Neale, founder learning the art of choosing options, Land. He was the Joshua who lived of his clan, David was a gentle soul he stood out at the centre as one apart from those he cared for in his who cared constantly for the poor to be watched. No political leader heart. Tom (Adams) was a bright Continued on Page 26 CHILL NEWS 3 NEWS n impassioned plea has gone out to the corpo- rate sector to form innovative partnerships with Aacademia which can create business opportunities OPEN FOR and improve regional productivity. It came from Professor Clive Landis as he gave an acceptance speech on behalf of five academic staff members of The BUSINESS University of the West Indies, including himself, who received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence on October 21, 2010. Professor Clive Landis was among recipients of the “We must collaborate to develop industrial patents and Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2010 launch innovative products, we need your business grants and your graduate scholarships to train the next generation of leaders, (and) grants may be tailored to your sector. “We need to pioneer environmental solutions, perhaps Senior in conjunction with the hotel and tourism sector; Lecturer we urge businesses to adopt community interventions Dr Kusha Haraksingh that we have developed, such as in childhood education or for Contribution to healthy lifestyle interventions, where corporate marketing Public Service, Senior muscle may be used for the good of raising public Lecturer Dr Dave awareness…” Chadee for Research Landis, a Professor in Cardiovascular Research attached Accomplishments and to the internationally renowned Chronic Disease Research Professor Samms-Vaughan Centre (CDRC) noted, for example, that his laboratory a Professor of Child Health, Child which houses some of the most sophisticated vascular Development and Behaviour gained recognition for her screening equipment in the region can help the workforce Contribution to Public Service. lead healthier and more productive lives through earlier The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence was initiated in 1993 detection of risk factors for diabetes. by former Vice Chancellor, Sir Alister McIntyre, to recognise “I want to say to the corporate sector: ‘we are brimful high achievement by academic as well as senior administrative of ideas and open for business’,” said Landis who staff.