Message from the Principal: To our Presidents: Welcome and Farewell
 The University of the West Indies St. Augustine Campus takes great pleasure in joining the national community in welcoming one of our precious alumni, a two-time graduate of UWI, as the new President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Throughout his impeccable career, President Anthony Carmona has earned universal respect and esteem, as seen by the tremendous outpouring of public goodwill, and we hold him up as the epitome of our ideal graduate.
I am sure that our former President, Professor George Maxwell Richards, a past Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of this very campus, shares my view that the character and spirit of his successor augurs well for the journey ahead for this country, and he must feel a sense of satisfaction that he has been elected for this position.
I would also like to take the opportunity to offer our deep appreciation for the service rendered to the country by Professor Emeritus Richards, as we here at St Augustine wish him and Dr Jean Ramjohn-Richards all the best in the future.
In both the outgoing and the incoming, I see many positive characteristics which reflect the tenets of good leadership that I support wholeheartedly. The demands of good governance and leadership are indeed many and varied as I myself have been learning through my own tenure here as campus principal.
This University has come of age in a period that tests its mettle on all fronts, with straitened economic circumstances and a sharply changing, highly competitive landscape for tertiary education institutions posing challenges that affect everything, even in unexpected ways. Our current situation with wage negotiations, I hope, should be practically resolved by the time this appears, but it has been a delicate matter, requiring both sensitivity and the capacity to work within our legal framework, and the processes that define the relations between regional governments and the university.
It has not been easy, and as President Carmona astutely noted, the positions do not come with magic wands, but neither are they impotent. The fine balance stands in the wisdom to know the difference.
Pro Vice Chancellor & Principal
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