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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 2014
HONORARY GRADUATE
RHONDA MAINGOT
The Big Bang of my Life
“Here I am, a young, single woman; great job, great friends, enjoying great ‘limes’ and parties,
or fetes as we used to say, wonderful holidays, filled with the joy of life, excited about what lay
before me, when, suddenly one night,
El-Shaddai
, The most powerful God, exploded into my
consciousness with a loud booming voice and commissioned me to
“love and show the world
how to love.”
That was the most important moment in my life! In that moment, my life changed.
Any thoughts I had previously about the non-existence of God disappeared in a flash, because I
knew then that there was a God and this God I would seek after the rest of my life. That was like
the
Big Bang
in my life! That was almost 40 years ago…soon after this I was introduced to the
co-founder of our Community, Rose Jackman, who at the time was a religious sister in Rosary
Convent in Port of Spain. After some months and with permission from her Superiors, Rose
joined me in my quest to love and show the world how to love.”
VALEDICTORIAN
ETHAN WYKE
Ambassadors for Science
“I stand here today as an advocate for science. Not just for scientific theories, but for the
culture of scientific thinking, the desire for discovery, for the West Indies to be genuinely part
of the future that the world is gearing towards and of which we are good enough to partake.
There is no reason that a scientific culture cannot exist in the Caribbean. There is no reason
that the Caribbean cannot lead the world one day in vertical farming. There is no reason that
in a region that is essentially a volcanic archipelago, which receives a healthy amount of sun
and wind, we cannot be the ones pioneering alternative forms of energy. There is no reason
that CARICOM cannot one day have a space programme or a supercollider of its own. There
is no reason, theoretically, that all of this cannot happen one day.”
FOR FULL ADDRESS, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT:
ENERGY
UWI GRADUATION CEREMONIES 2014
Faculties of Science and Technology
and Food and Technology
What students said about UWI:
“Make sure you are passionate. You need to love what you do more than you love earning a salary.”
(Civil Engineering)
“Do research before you get into a programme. Stay focused.”
(Petrochemical Engineering)
