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The UWI aims to create ‘change agents’ with Makandal Daaga Law Scholarship

For Release Upon Receipt - April 29, 2019

St. Augustine


 

The family of Makandal Daaga: from left, Akhenaton Daaga, his mother Liseli and sister, Karomana, at right, with Kareem Marcelle, scholarship winner, and Professor Rose-Marie Belle-Antoine, Dean of the Faculty of Law 

The Faculty of Law of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus aims to create lawyers who will be meaningful change agents within the Caribbean. It is doing so through the Makandal Daaga Scholarship in Law, now in its third year.

Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Dean of the Faculty of Law, indicates that the Makandal Daaga scholarship is “a tremendous opportunity for the scholars who are given the tools of law to further their important work in activism and social development. It also furthers the goal of the Faculty of Law and The UWI to create greater access to the Law programme based on more broad-based, relevant criteria. Both lead to building better, more socially centred lawyers who will strive to reconstruct our societies for the greater good, promoting ideals of egalitarianism and justice."

The Makandal Daaga scholarship targets candidates who would not normally qualify for entry into the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme based only on academic qualifications.  It is an equal opportunity scholarship where applicants may be of any age, gender, race, or CARICOM nationality.

Applicants must be persons with a discernible record of advocating for positive social change in their communities through concrete work on issues of justice, equality, or democracy, whether in an NGO, governmental, regional, or individual capacity.

Kareem Marcelle, the first recipient of the Makandal Daaga Scholarship in Law (2017), is encouraging everyone involved in activism in the Caribbean to apply for the scholarship, “Even if you feel disheartened that law may be too hard, I am telling you that once you reach here this Faculty is helpful in helping you achieve these goals; if you work with them, they will work with you . . .  If you know that you have been working hard continuously for your community and it does not have to be a physical community, it could be a community of so many different diasporas of persons and groups that you would want to fight for . . . a law degree can definitely help you to make that one step closer to achieve that”.

To be considered, applicants must also satisfy at least the minimum matriculation requirements of The University of the West Indies and apply to the Faculty of Law by June 2019.

To apply for the Scholarship please visit https://sta.uwi.edu/scholarships

To apply to the Faculty of Law please visit https://sta.uwi.edu/apply

The deadline for applications is June 30, 2019.

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About The UWI

Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, The UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. The UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation. Website: www.uwi.edu 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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