Message from the Principal: Building capacity and creating impact
 New infrastructural initiatives have begun the process for further integration of work being done at The UWI to more directly serve our society. The projects have been many.
In May, the new dental facility at Arima and the UWI School of Nursing (UWISON) at El Dorado were opened, while at Mt. Hope, sod was turned for the expansion of both the Dental School and the Arthur Lok Jack School of Business. Soon there will be ceremonies for two major projects at St. Augustine: the construction of the new Republic Bank building, eventually a Northern Plaza at our Eastern Main Road and the University entrance; and at our Cheeseman Street facility, Phase One of the construction of our new Department of Creative and Festival Arts (DCFA).
Also ahead is the soft opening of the South campus at Penal-Debe; construction and outfitting are moving apace.
We have just signed an MOU with the North West Regional Health Authority to govern the construction of a Teaching and Student facility at the Port of Spain General Hospital which will house students and staff of the UWI St. Augustine Faculty of Medical Sciences. We expect to be present in that Teaching and Learning Hospital very shortly.
The many health-related projects being undertaken by the UWI over a very short period of time presents the most formidable contribution to that sector by any educational institution in our history. The Dean and staff of our Faculty of Medical Sciences and the Ministry of Tertiary and Skills Training and the Ministry of Health must be commended for their commitment to these projects.
I am pleased to report that our University is making good headway with projects that demonstrate responsiveness and capacity building. Common to all these initiatives is the significant impact they will have on society and the positive way in which they will bolster our resources in the areas of health and social services in meeting the needs of our Caribbean people.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Campus Principal: Professor Clement Sankat
Director of Marketing and Communications: Dr. Dawn-Marie De
Four-Gill
Editor: Ms. Vaneisa Baksh [vaneisa.baksh@sta.uwi.edu]
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