UWI St Augustine Marketing and Communications Office’s winning message resonates with Apex, Educational Advertising Awards
The UWI St Augustine campus community has countless stories to tell, and in 2025 its Marketing and Communications Office (M&C) has won several international awards for sharing those stories with society.
M&C has won two APEX Awards and five Educational Advertising Awards (EduAdAwards) in categories such as outdoor design, video, photography and publications. Among the winners are office assistant and photographer Mr Aneel Karim, whose breathtaking photo of Jab Molassies at The Old Yard carnival event, won him a prestigious APEX Grand Award. Only 100 Grand Award winners are selected out of more than a thousand-plus from across the globe.
“We are very pleased with this result, “said Ms Wynell Gregorio, Director of M&C. “Over the past few years, we have been undertaking restructuring to better meet the needs of the campus as the higher education market evolves and the priorities of both the institution and the society change. These awards are a recognition of the value of all our planning and execution.”
M&C’s publication team won both an Apex Award and an EduAdAward (Gold) for the UWI St Augustine Annual Report 2022/2023, titled Creating Change Together. A 2024 ten-episode postgraduate video series spearheaded by the student recruitment team and outdoor design led by the events unit also won gold EduAdAwards. A 2024 special video by M&C graphic artist Atiba Cudjoe won a silver EduAdAward. UWI Today was also awarded a silver EduAdAward.
To Ms Gregorio, the awards are the result of the collective effort of M&C.
“We are a team and we succeed through teamwork,” she says. “We also rely on our strong relationships with the various faculties, departments, units and individuals that make up this campus community. Going forward, we will continue to give our best in representing this campus to the region and the world.”
APEX is the Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition. Now in its 38th year, the competition is open to corporate, nonprofit and independent communicators in 100 categories.
Currently in its 40th year, the EduAdAwards is a US-based international competition for educational marketing and advertising.
M&C at UWI St Augustine is responsible for branding, recruitment, advertising, events, internal and external communications, publications, and digital strategy and social media.
