Event

On June 17, 2014, Dr. The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines delivers a Distinguished Open Lecture at the St. Augustine Campus titled “Free Movement of People, Shanique Myrie and Our Caribbean Civilisation”. 

The lecture takes place at Lecture Theatre E, Teaching and Learning Complex, Circular Road, St. Augustine, at 5.30pm. 

All are invited to attend. 

For further information, contact the Open Lectures Committee at 662-2002 ext. 83880  

More about Dr. the Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves 

Dr. Gonsalves was educated in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the Colonarie Roman Catholic School and at the St. Vincent Boys’ Grammar School.  He later completed a Bachelors Degree in Economics and a Masters in Government at The UWI Mona, where he also served on the Guild of Students. In 1974 and 1981 he obtained a Ph. D in Government and a Degree of Utter Barrister at University of Manchester, England and Gray’s Inn, London, respectively. 

Dr. Gonsalves became the Deputy Political Leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) in 1994 and won the St. Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections March 28, 2001. He has remained Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines since then, winning the elections again in December 2005. 

Dr. Gonsalves has researched, written and published extensively on a range of matters touching upon the Caribbean, Africa, trade unionism, comparative political economy, and developmental issues generally.  Among his two latest publications are:  History and the Future:  A Caribbean Perspective (1994), The Politics of Our Caribbean Civilisation – Essays and Speeches (2001), The Making of the Comrade: The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves (2010), and Diary of a Prime Minister: Ten Days Among Benedictine Monks (2010).