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Jun 12, 2014 News
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The University of the West Indies (UWI) says it will confer honorary doctorates on 20 people, among them, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Carmona and Grenada’s Governor General, Dame Cécile Ellen La Grenade.
The region’s premier tertiary institution said that the degrees will be awarded to the 20 people for their “stellar contributions to Caribbean development” and the conferral will take place during the 2014 graduation ceremonies at its three campuses in October.
Former acting chief justice of the OECS Supreme Court, Sir Brian Alleyne, and St. Lucian Dr. Earl Long, a parasitologist, will be honoured by UWI’s Open Campus.
UWI Chancellor, Sir George Alleyne, will confer the degrees at the graduation exercises during the months of October and November.
Others to be honoured include the Barbados-based women’s rights activist, Dame Maizie Barker-Welch and former Barbados Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Dame Billie Miller.
Guyanese born writer, journalist, public servant and politician, Dr. Robert Moore; former diplomat, writer, journalist and international consultant, Sir Ronald Sanders; and the singer Mrs McCartha Linda Sandy-Lewis, better known as “Calypso Rose” will also be awarded honorary doctorates.
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