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On February 19, 2020 the American Foundation of the University of the West Indies (AFUWI) hosted its 23rd Annual Awards Gala at the iconic Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, New York. Lorraine Toussaint received the Bob Marley Award and here celebrates with alumni at the Pre-Gala Cocktail.

This year’s event, which is each year attended by the Diaspora, alumni and Friends of the UWI, corporate USA and executive management of The UWI, honoured the following:

Ø  Jamaica Money Market Brokers Group - The Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Business Leadership

UWI graduate Senator Rosemary Moodie MBBS'82 was one of the Honourees at the 2020 Ryerson University Viola Desmond Awards. She is a pediatrician and neonatologist, who was appointed to the Senate of Canada in December 2018.

Famous for challenging racial injustice, Viola Desmond is remembered at an annual awards ceremony that celebrates outstanding contributions made to Canada by women of African descent, Ryerson University’s Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion hosted the 12th annual Viola Desmond Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020.

UWI alumna Karen E Bravo has been named Dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law at   Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from The UWI, Mona and she received her Master of Laws from the New York University School of Law and her Juris Doctor from the Columbia University School of Law.

UWI alumna, esteemed Employment Barrister and Lead Trustee of the British Foundation of The University of the West Indies (BFUW), Susan Belgrave, was a remarkable lady and she will be greatly missed. 

UWI alumna Lisa Soares Lewis honoured at World HRD Congress as a Most Talented HR Leader in Mumbai, India.

On February 17, 2020, The UWI and Canada’s Brock University launched a joint institute to promote, transform, and upgrade two hundred years of solid relations that have facilitated Caribbean development. Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency Laurie Peters, who was a quiet but effective supporter of the project from the beginning, was in attendance, along with officials from both universities.  The launch ceremony was followed by a two-day symposium on Canada-Caribbean relations.

The YAA, a group “powered by the Alumni Ambassadors of the Vice Chancellor’s UWI STAT Ambassadorial Corps will operate regionally and internationally as an active resource network for each other as well as young graduates and will visibly promote alumni engagement and interact with their respective campuses.

Dr. Godfrey A. Gibbison - Phd, MSc, BSc; was awarded the UWIAA New York Chapter’s 2020 Pelican Award at the American Foundation for UWI Gala on February 19, 2020 at The Pierre Hotel in Manhattan New York. Dr. Gibbison hails from the farming community of Contrivance in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. He is the last of seven children who were raised primarily by the matriarch of the family after his father passed.

Former Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale is leaving the Turks and Caicos Islands to take up a position as a judge of the Grand Court in the Cayman Islands. When she was appointed to the Turks and Caicos Islands judiciary in 2011, Ramsay-Hale became the first woman to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. In September 2014, she again made history, becoming the Islands’ first female chief justice.