ISSUE 3 : APRIL/JUNE 2006 Contents A PUBLICATION OF THE PUBLIC NEWS COVER STORY INFORMATION AND MARKETING OFFICE, THE UNIVERSITY OF THE 5 ALMOND RESORTS 22 KALINAGO YOUTH WEST INDIES, CAVE HILL CAMPUS. FUNDS MASTERS IN TOURISM STUDIES ARTS 5 CAUGHT IN THE NET 24 MAS’ MAN 6 EDUCATION REPORT 25 MEDICAL CHRONICLES 7 YOUNG ECONOMISTS We welcome your comments and 26 PROFESSOR MICHAEL DISCUSS CSME feedback which can be directed HOWARD to [email protected] or 8 ISSUES WITH O’NEIL Chill c/o Marketing Office, 9 UWI/FCIB LAUNCH Cave Hill Campus, COMMUNITY OUTREACH CREDIT CARD Bridgetown BB11000 27 MEDICAL LECTURES Barbados 27 OPEN HOUSE Tel: (246) 417-4057 IN DEPTH 28 DISTANCE LEARNING 10 CELEBRATING CO-EDITORS: Chelston Lovell SUCCESS: ARTHUR, Janet Caroo UWI & CSME RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS: 29 BARBADOS Professor Hilary Beckles BLACKBELLY SHEEP Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald CAMPUS FOCUS Professor Henry Fraser 12 SIR ROY MARSHALL Rob Leyshon AWARDS Steven R. Leslie 12 CLICO CENTRE Francis Severin 13 LEADERSHIP TRAINING 31 ELEVEN WOMEN Krystle Ince FOR W.I. CRICKETERS HONOURED Dale Austin 2005-2006 Guild Council Tara Gaskin SPORTS Sonia Johnson PEOPLE 32 CARICOM FOOTBALL Educational Media Services Department 14 MADAM JUSTICE FINALS PHOTOGRAPHY: JACQUELINE CORNELIUS Cover Image – David Marshall 15 CHARMAINE GARDNER 33 CAVE HILL DEFEAT Event Photography SCOTLAND Andre Alleyne Warren Linton 34 INAUGURAL 20/20 STUDENT CENTERED Bernard Babb TOURNAMENT Jamal Best 16 PFIZER PRIZE Rodney King Emmerson Haynes 17 KRYSTLE INCE Ricardo Arthur 17 LAW STUDENTS DESIGN & LAYOUT: 18 GUILD COUNCIL REPORT Longbow Communications 20 STUDENTS EXCHANGE PRINTED BY: COT Caribbean Graphics CHILL NEWS | 3 CHILL Discourse New Strategic Choices e are fast approaching the prosper without the full support of the end of the 2002-2007 private sector that commands investment W strategic planning cycle. capital within its jurisdiction. This we Already the pace is gathering for the know, and it has become a conception and design of another five commandment of sorts. Our academic year plan that should be in place by freedom as an academy will ultimately the end of this year. depend on our capacity to win the New ways of thinking about the university confidence and respect of the business and its role in transforming the regional community that sees us as a critical social capital did shape the mid-term friend. This time is Cave Hill’s time. We are batting on a good wicket; we have a good team and our supporters are encouraging. review exercise. The growing sense at Driving the revolution in social capital Cave Hill is that the coming plan will seek development has to be our top priority. the radical re-engineering of campus Our capacity for development in the operations and the preparation of the region is still constrained more by a community to perform leadership roles shortage of critical skills than investment within the UWI firmament. capital. As we network with other This time is Cave Hill’s time. We are educational institutions to advance into batting on a good wicket; we have a the objective of producing at least one good team and our supporters are tertiary graduate per household the focus will be on ensuring the relevance of Professor Hilary Beckles encouraging. The Government of Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Principal Barbados and other governments have programs and knowledge. Passing the Cave Hill campus empowered us in a way that is relevancy test is vital. Curriculum reform unprecedented since our founders laid out the blue print for a first rate academy forty-three years ago. They have seen to Driving the revolution in social capital development it that our budget has grown has to be our top priority. Our capacity for development commensurate with enrolment and graduate output. This has enabled the in the region is still constrained more by a shortage of stabilisation of the planning environment and given management the confidence to critical skills than investment capital. act strategically with respect to the expansion process. In addition, the leap. New, dedicated graduate facilities Government of Barbados has provided us and program diversification will be guided are on the way to give physical with new lands at Black Rock that will by this understanding, and already we dimensions this development. In addition, double our operational space. have delivered a number of new and innovative masters degrees that indicate it will facilitate our ongoing thrust to The private sector has come to the crease our commitment. The coming academic center professional training within the and proven itself a keen and erstwhile years will witness an explosion of new faculties as we commit to assisting the partner. We are very excited about this offerings that will excite our potential private sector and government with the new alliance network with students into application. ongoing training and upgrade of the the corporate community as we also labor force. intend to be more aggressive as an All of this is by way of deepening Cave It will be an intense learning time for us entrepreneurial university with a capacity Hill’s operations as a post-graduate and all. This is Cave Hill’s time, and we intend to earn income for ourselves in a number research community. We are excited by to seize the moment. of disciplinary areas. No university can this preparation of the academy for this 4| CHILL NEWS News Almond Resorts funds MSc in Tourism Studies The University of the West Indies and Almond Resorts Incorporated on Ralph Taylor, Chairman Almond March 4, 2006, signed a Memorandum of Understanding through which Resorts Inc. Almond Resorts will provide a sum of BDS$600,000 to fund a chair in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the Campus. The funding will enable the university to secure support for a new Masters of Science degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management, a move aimed at providing more trained managers in the tourism sector. The new programme commences in September 2006. During the ceremony at the Cave Hill Campus to launch the programme, Ralph Taylor, Chairman of Almond Resorts and a member of the campus’ one-year-old campus Curriculum Review Commission, said there was a shortage of top and mid-level managers in Tourism and often such skills had to be imported from outside of the region. He praised the UWI for moving to implement the programme, saying that it showed their commitment to further education and also demonstrated an understanding of the economic reality of the Caribbean. He added that tourism is critical to the economies of small island states in the Caribbean and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has estimated that approximately 43% of Caribbean GDP is derived from travel and tourism. Cave Hill Caught in the Net As one of the regional venues for ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, The UN Information Centres in 66 countries, the Dag Cave Hill Campus is poised to significantly raise its international Hammarskjöld Library at UN Headquarters, and all the libraries profile. of the Regional Commissions and United Nations Offices also Evidence that this has already started to take place occurred when participated. The libraries were invited to send photographs of the e-journal Scottish Cricketer mounted a postcard image of the their exhibition to mark United Nations Day on October 24 for 3Ws Oval and Walk of Fame with the Worrell Halls backdrop in posting on the Depository Libraries’ website. one of its reports covering the recently concluded regional acclimatisation tour by the Scotland Cricket Team. Scotland, one of 16 teams taking part in next year’s World Cup, visited the Caribbean one year ahead of their international engagements to play a number of warm up games in Barbados, including four at the 3Ws Oval where they will return next March for two international encounters. The Campus was also featured recently in a United Nations 60th anniversary worldwide exhibition which was posted on the web. The exhibition submitted by the campus Main Library was among approximately 70 on display from 400 depository libraries in 145 countries which took part. Log on to: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/exhibit_in_box.htm CHILL NEWS | 5 CHILL News Addressing the gathering, Minister Education Report by July Wood pointed to the government’s “This report will provide a comprehensive view on the state support of the EEC as a research and of education in Barbados as we continue to investigate evaluation unit that sought to promote closely what work still needs to be done” educational The Education Evaluation Centre (EEC) at professionals, whereby the Centre reiterated excellence in the Cave Hill has promised that by July this year its commitment to the vision that spurred its region and to lend it will complete a comprehensive data creation. its services to Dr. Jennifer Obidah report of the state of education in “This report will provide a comprehensive view evaluate, Barbados. This project was unveiled as part on the state of education in Barbados as we implement and monitor the progress of of the slate of programmes the Centre is continue to investigate closely what work still increasing numbers of the government’s currently pursuing that highlights its needs to be done,” said Dr. Jennifer Obidah education policies and programmes. increasing profile regionally and Director of EEC. “This reflects our goal to The increasing scrutiny in the education sector internationally as a premiere facility provide services to the educational sector comes amidst efforts by the UWI to increase its promoting educational excellence in the throughout the Caribbean via research, leadership role in the sector and to bolster the region. professional development, technical assistance, increasing number of education initiatives by the The announcement came as the EEC held an training, production of curriculum materials and government.