Happenings
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The Faculty of Law team took the prize for the “Best Team from an Academic Institution” at this year’s Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) VII Annual International Law Moot competition held recently.
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Prof Derek Chadee, Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, focused on the social and psychological outcomes of the fear of crime in the national community in his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on March 26, 2105.
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The Cocoa Research Centre (CRC) at the UWI has embarked on a three-year project that will transform the fine cocoa sector across the Caribbean region, ensuring the sustainability of Caribbean cocoa and pioneering a model for regional food crop security. Dubbed the International Fine Cocoa Innovation Centre (IFCIC), the project was conceptualised by the CRC and its partners, Newer Worlds, Caribbean Fine Cocoa Forum, Cocoa Industry Board of Jamaica and funded by a €2 million grant from the European Union under the ACP Science and Technology Programme II. The launch of the IFCIC was the highlight of a two-day conference hosted by the CRC on March 23rd and 24th, 2015.
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The Humanities Festival was a week long extravaganza of the arts. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, the Patron, opened the festival on March 21 at 7:30p.m. in the Amphitheatre of the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex. There was an art exhibition ‘Expressions’ featuring the work of staff, Zoanne Evans, Alison Johnson and students; Metasebia Talma, Susan Alleyne Forde, Don Small and Alumni Rodney Ifill and Althea Wood; the Inaugural Kamau Brathwaite Lecture, delivered by former Dean of the Faculty and Principal & Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Open Campus, Professor Hazel Simmons McDonald and a two day Inter Campus Foreign Language Theatre Festival.
MONA •
On March 26, The UWI Games 2015 was formally launched at the UWI’s St. Augustine Campus, with a torch run across the campus grounds involving students and staff. It will run from May 21 - 29. The UWI Games is a biennial competition among the St. Augustine, Mona, Cave Hill and Open Campuses. The last time UWI Games was hosted at St. Augustine was in 2009; it is rotated among the four campuses. Approximately 500 athletes from across the Caribbean will take part in 10 sporting disciplines: basketball, football, tennis, swimming, table tennis, track and field, volleyball, cricket, netball and six-a-side hockey.
In February, the annual Homecoming Celebrations at Mona were staged under the theme Re-Igniting the Pelican Flame, as part of an effort to reinforce and strengthen a sense of pride about the Mona Campus among members of the UWI Community, and to identify and showcase achievements from individuals or groups who exemplify the UWI tradition of excellence.
CAVE HILL •
Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, has been appointed as Principal Designate of UWI Cave Hill. She has served nine months as the second Principal of the Open Campus. Grenadian by birth, with a distinguished record as a Caribbean scholar and administrator. Professor Barriteau has held several positions at various ranks at The University of the West Indies for over 30 years.
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Access to regional legal information online is becoming a reality with funding from the Government of Canada, through the Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean Project (IMPACT Justice).
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The funding is a boost to justice sector reform and goes towards developing online legal database resources. These databases will allow citizens in CARICOM member states easier access to finding legal information for governing their affairs. IMPACT Justice is working with Canadian based archival software company, Andornot, to expand CariLaw’s digital database and upgrade its search engine to make it more user-friendly. The Project is also establishing online databases for the CLR and the West Indies Legislative Indexing Project
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The Faculty of Law at the UWI Mona, in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences, St. Augustine hosted a Public Lecture entitled: “The Influence of the Magna Carta on Human Rights in Jamaica”on February 4, in the Law Lecture Theatre Two (LLT 2).
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Researchers at Mona demonstrated how key innovations resulting from their work continue to contribute to regional development at the 16th staging of the institution’s annual Research Days exhibition Feb 9 - 11, 2015. Under the theme ‘Innovating for Development through Science, Creativity,