News & Updates

The collective Chapters of the UWI Alumni Association are deeply concerned about the security of students at St. Augustine, and indeed all the UWI campuses. Student security is of paramount importance and we trust that the administration at St. Augustine will work with students to take all necessary steps to ensure safety on or around the campus.

The Open Campus UWIAA St. Lucia Chapter hosted the Chancellor's Forum and Pelican Awards in St. Lucia on October 13, 2018 and it was a great success.  The 10 awardees were overjoyed and their "journeys" which have contributed so much to our nations and region - were truly inspirational. 

The Awardees were nominated by the Open Campus UWIAA and the exceptional winners received the Pelican Awards from the collective UWIAA Open Campus Chapters:

On Thursday, September 27th, The UWI’s Honorary Graduate, Dr. Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce brought her Shelly’s Pop Up Café to the UWI Mona’s Alumni House and showed off her culinary entrepreneurial skills. The UWI Alumni Association Jamaica Chapter invited her to support the University’s alumni engagement programme and to demonstrate to students that one can have many interests and talents and be successful in them all.

The UWI Mona now has a new Faculty of Engineering and looks forward to equipping more professionals to satisfy the growing demand of Jamaica and the Caribbean’s construction and industrial sectors.

Members of the “Class of 1968” graduates of UWI, will stage a grand Golden Anniversary Celebration October 3 – 7, 2018, to mark 50 years since their graduation from The University of the West Indies. A Planning Committee, co-chaired by Mr Danny James and Dr Marjorie Cobham, has been busy since April of this year organising the planned events for batchmates, who are coming from all over the Caribbean and the Diaspora.

Stella Jackman-Ryan, earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and clinical psychology, respectively, from The University of the West Indies. She hails from Trinidad and Tobago and is a Fulbright Laspau Award recipient and has joined the NC State College of Education as a doctoral student in educational psychology.

This partnership seeks to ensure that the Caribbean will become the world’s first ‘climate-smart zone’ and it was launched at the UWI Mona Campus. A coalition of 26 countries and over 40 private and public sector partners are now working together to implement climate solutions for resilience, renewable energy, development of sustainable cities, oceans and transportation.