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March 2013 |
Chadee and Hennis are joined by Trinidadian missionary and founder of charitable and care institutions, Rhonda Maingot, who won the Public & Civic Contributions prize, and St Kitts and Nevis-born novelist, essayist and critic, Professor Caryl Phillips. The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards is the only programme in the Caribbean which seeks out and rewards outstanding nominees in Arts & Letters, Public & Civic Contributions, and Science & Technology. It has existed since 2005, and was, till 2010, a biennial award, at which time it became an annual award. The prizes are worth TT $500,000 each (joint laureates share the prize). Each laureate will receive a medal and citation at a ceremony on April 20 at Theatre 1 of the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA). Many UWI academics have been named laureates, including Professor Terrence Forrester (Jamaica), Professor Kathleen Coard (Grenada), Professor Surujpal Teelucksingh, Trinidad & Tobago, and Professor Leonard O’Garro (St Vincent). The Caribbean Awards also hosts a yearly public lecture in conjunction with The UWI at St Augustine, featuring one of the laureates.
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Two UWI academics were among the four Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence Laureates for 2013. Professor Dave Chadee, parasitologist and entomologist of UWI, St Augustine’s Life Sciences Department, and Professor Anselm Hennis, professor of medicine, and head of UWI Cave Hill’s Chronic Disease Research Centre and the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, shared the Science & Technology prize.