SUNDAY 9 JULY, 2017 – UWI TODAY
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CAMPUS NEWS
MIDWIVES, MOTHERS AND FAMILIES
The UWI School of Nursing
and the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Midwives, jointly
hosted a national midwifery symposium: “Midwives, Mothers and Families – Partners
for Life,” in early May. The symposium highlighted the responsibility of midwives to be
advocates for change, innovation, and the delivery of care to their patients. The event
attracted 140 participants, primarily midwives and nurses to the University Inn and
Conference Centre, St. Augustine.
From left: Dr. Bernadette Theodore-Gandi, PAHO/ WHO Country Representative; Professor Terence
Seemungal, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences; Ms. Frances Day-Stirk, President, International
Confederation of Midwives; the Honourable, Terrence Deyalsingh, Minister of Health; Professor Brian
Copeland, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, UWI St. Augustine; Dr. Oscar Ocho, Director,
the UWISoN; Mrs. Kathy-Ann Thomas Elbourne, TTAM; Dr. Rodolpho Gomez Ponce de Leon, Regional
Reproductive Health Advisor, Latin America Centre for Perinatology, Woman and Health Unit, PAHO;
Mrs. Marcia Rollock, CRMA.
Acting Director of the Institute of International Relations, Anselm Francis (seated-C), consultant, Gail
Guy (seated-L) and Manager of the Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean, Dr. Khellon Roach (seated-R)
with participants at Session 1.
OIL AND GAS
Alicia Elias-Roberts, Lecturer and Oil and Gas Law Course Director,
at the Faculty of Law, UWI St.
Augustine delivers her paper on Environmental Challenges in Offshore Energy Development at the
UWI Oil and Gas Conference. The two-day Conference (June 8-9) brought together oil and gas law
experts from around the world, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Turks
and Caicos from the region and the UK, USA, Canada and Angola to critically expand the discourse on
energy issues in the Caribbean, particularly from a legal perspective. One of the action points coming
out of the conference is to create a publication out of the conference papers. It is anticipated that the
book will be launched in 2018.
For more information about the conference visit
or contact conference coordinator: Alicia Elias-Roberts at
DIPLOMACYANDBUSINESS ETIQUETTE
The Diplomatic Academy
of the Caribbean rolled out its first Summer Executive
Programme for Young Professionals, “Protocol, Diplomacy and Business Etiquette 101,”
in two consecutive sessions in early June 2017. In total, 63 professionals were trained from
varying backgrounds, including participants from State agencies and the private sector.
Participants also came from Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda.
The Programme was facilitated by Gail Guy, a retired diplomat and protocol consultant
who took participants through lectures and practical exercises on the fundamentals
and elements of diplomatic protocol, state protocol, business etiquette, event planning,
international law and national identity guidelines among other pertinent themes.
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