June 2015


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21 honorary degrees from The UWI


In April 2015, the University Council endorsed the recommendation of the Joint Committee of Council and Senate to award honorary degrees on the following individuals at the graduation ceremonies later this year.

At the St. Augustine Campus

Mr. Gerard A. Besson (DLitt)
Publisher, Trinidad and Tobago

Mr. Hollis R. Charles (DSc)
Engineer, Trinidad and Tobago

Justice Ralph Narine (LLD)
Jurist, Trinidad and Tobago

Justice Jean Angela Permanand (LLD)
Jurist, Trinidad and Tobago

Mr. Rajkumar Krishna Persad (DLitt)
NKR, HBM, Choreographer, Trinidad and Tobago

Mr. David Rudder (DLitt)
Entertainer/Calypsonian, Trinidad and Tobago

Mr. A. Norman Sabga (LLD)
Entrepreneur, Trinidad and Tobago

Dr. Marjorie Thorpe (DLitt)
Educator/Author, Trinidad and Tobago

At the Cave Hill Campus

Mr. Stephen D.R. McNamara (LLD)
Lawyer, St. Lucia

Sir David A.C. Simmons, KA, BCH, QC, LLM (LLD)
Jurist, Barbados

Mr. Ralph Williams (DSc)
Engineer/Entrepreneur, Barbados

Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton (LLD)
Lawyer, Barbados

At the Mona Campus

Dr. the Hon Lloyd Barnett (LLD)
Jurist/Educator, Jamaica

Hon Hugh Hart (LLD)
Attorney at Law/Public Servant, Jamaica

Mrs. Alfarita ‘Rita’ Marley (DLitt)
Entertainer/Philanthropist, Jamaica/Ethiopia

Professor Emeritus Mervyn Morris (DLitt)
Poet/Educator, Jamaica

Mr. Denis O’Brien (LLD)
Entrepreneur, Ireland

Professor Emeritus Sir Geoff Palmer, OBE, PhD, DSc, FRSM (DSc)
Scientist, Canada

Ambassador Burchel Whiteman (LLD)
Diplomat/Educator/Parliamentarian, Jamaica

At the Open Campus

Mr. David Samuel Brandt (LLD)
Attorney at Law, Montserrat

Ambassador A. Missouri Sherman-Peter (LLD)
Diplomat/Public Servant, The Bahamas