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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 13TH MARCH, 2016
CAMPUS NEWS
CALLING
EXCEPTIONAL
PEOPLE
The Anthony N. Sabga
Caribbean Awards
for Excellence has existed since 2005, and
has recognized and rewarded 27 outstanding
Caribbean nationals for their work in science,
arts, public work, and entrepreneurship with
prizes of a half-million dollars (TT) and amedal
and citation.
The nomination deadline for the 2017
awards is March 31, 2016. Nominations for next
year’s awards may be in arts, sciences, public
works, and entrepreneurship.
The Foundation’s statement noted that
while “we are proud to have recognized doctors,
scientific researchers, writers, literacy activists,
human rights and children’s activists, musicians,
archivists, and missionaries,” there is room for
others from different disciplines.
“We have musicians, archaeologists, and
sustainable development experts, but we have
no architects, visual artists, television producers,
dancers, or designers.
“We would like to see entrepreneurs in
everything from food production to fashion
design, tomedia, and we are sure they exist, and
work, and deserve to be rewarded. We would
like to see the scientist in the obscure field, or
the activist working quietly for his or her cause.”
For details on the Awards, nomination
forms, and links to videos of laureates,
events, and ceremonies, please visit
www.
ansacaribbeanawards.com.
2015 Laureates, from left: Prof Patrick Hosein (Science &
Technology) from Trinidad & Tobago; Mr Herbert Samuel
(Entrepreneurship) from St Vincent & the Grenadines; Prof
Suresh Narine (Science & Technology), from Guyana; and
Dr Paloma Mohamed Martin (Arts & Letters) from Guyana.
Applying the Jamaican patios
phrase ‘likkle but tallawah’
is a succinct yet effective way to describe the proceedings
of the
Turning Tides
conference recently held at the St.
Augustine Campus.
‘Likkle’ in the sense that it was only three days long but
‘tallawah’ (strong) in variety of content, quality of discourse
and diversity of interests, people and presentations.
The UWI St. Augustine hosted the conference in
collaboration with Trinity College, which is based in
Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Its sub-title elucidated the
focus as being on
Caribbean Intersections in the Americas
and Beyond
.
Co-chair of the conference and Dean of the Faculty
of Humanities and Education, Dr. Heather Cateau said
that, “
Turning Tides
provoke wide-ranging and trans-
disciplinary conversations centred on the Caribbean. The
themes include identity, religion, culture, history, theatre,
film, music, education, literature, ‘gangspeak,’ gender, sport
and sustainable development.”
Co-chair Professor Dario Euraque in his greeting said
that, “The
Turning Tides
conference actually represents a
deepening of academic and administrative ties between
Trinity and The UWI. There is a long history of inter-
institutional relations between the two universities that dates
back to the 1990s through an initiative that was nurtured
with the great Trinidadian intellectual Lloyd Best.”
One of those agreements was marked by the official
launch of
Trinity House
collaborative research centre. It is
the on-campus home for a programme in which Trinity
students take UWI courses, as well as courses organized
and offered by the Trinity academic staff and distinguished
B Y R E B E C C A R O B I N S O N
A Caribbean-American Fusion
Trinidadian lecturers. The
Trinity-in-Trinidad
programme
also includes bringing students each semester to become
immersed in local culture.
It is coordinated by Trinity professors Milla Riggio,
Pablo Delano and Dario Euraque. Core courses are directed
locally by playwright Tony Hall and Dr. Armando Garcia.
Some 20 Trinity College academics participated
alongside UWI-based presenters at the
Turning Tides
conference. There were sessions open to the public on the
last day of proceedings in which Trinidad and Tobago’s
2016 Olympic bid was discussed, and Professor Patricia
Mohammed screened her documentary film,
City on a Hill
.
The conference also paid tribute to Peter Minshall on
the 40
th
anniversary of his first band, with the screening of
the documentary
Paradise Lost.
Christopher Laird presented
the Banyan feature called
Inside the People TV: Our Images,
Our Stories, Money in the Bank
; and there was a conversation
with Pablo Delano of Trinity College whose exhibition,
The
Museum of the Old Colony: An Installation/ Exploration,
took place at
Alice Yard
in Port of Spain and the conversant
was writer and editor, Nicholas Laughlin.
At the opening of the conference, Harvey Neptune
delivered the keynote address. A professor of History at
Temple University, Neptune attended Siparia Boys R.C. and
Presentation College in San Fernando before migrating to
the US and pursuing his higher education. The conference
literature highlighted his being the keynote as emanating
from his grounding and experiences ‘as a transnational
citizen.’ Indeed he projected the three days of the
Turning
Tides
conference with all its diversity and inter-disciplinarity
as truly ‘likkle but tallawah.’
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New Executive of Guild of Students
PRESIDENT
Makesi Peters
VICE PRESIDENT
Michael N Rajnauth
TREASURER
Jonathon St Louis Nahous
SECRETARY
Liana Lai Awa
POST GRADUATE PRESIDENT
Seon Raymond
PART TIME & EVENING
REPRESENTATIVE
Jamie Martin
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTE
CHAIRPERSON
Enrique Ali Cashier
STUDENT ACTIVITY COMMITTEE
CHAIRPERSON
Dexter Wilson
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE
CHAIRPERSON
Darrion Narine
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE
CHAIRPERSON
Yenver Caezar
GAMES COMMITTEE
CHAIRPERSON
Darien Subero
FACULTY OF
FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Tariq Ali
FACULTY OF
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Lynford Allen
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY
Dahryn A Augustine
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
& EDUCATION
Shenell Felix
FACULTY OF LAW
Crystal Charles
FACULTY OF
ENGINEERING
Sherlanna Ferret
FACULTY OF
MEDICAL SCIENCES
Andre Earle
It was 159 votes that separated Makesi Peters (left) from
Nikoli Edwards the former secretary of the Guild.
