The Pelican Award

The Pelican Award:  

The Pelican award is the highest award that a UWIAA Chapter may bestow. It is thus highly prestigious. The Pelican Award is a special alumni accolade and indicates how very proud the fellow alumni of the awardee are, of his/her, national, regional and/or international success and renown.

A Pelican Awardee is considered  ​to be a role model for the UWI population globally and in particular for the current cohort of students, who are themselves future alumni. The Pelican Award is presented by any UWI Alumni Association (UWIAA) Chapter to: 

a) a graduate of The University of the West Indies who has excelled in his/her chosen field and has had major positive national, regional or international impact or who has contributed significantly to the development of the University, or has made an outstanding contribution to any of the UWI contributing countries of the Caribbean Region. 

b) in rare cases, to a non-graduate who has contributed significantly to the development of the University or has made an outstanding contribution to any of the UWI contributing countries of the Caribbean Region.

c) The award may not be given to active politicians, nor may it be given posthumously. 

This award signifies that the awardee is considered to embody the qualities of a true PELICAN - it is the most esteemed and illustrious peer award given by any UWIAA Chapter. 

*Like for UWI Honorary Degrees - Recipients of this prestigious award should be present to accept

Past Recipients

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA  

2019 H.E. Sir Rodney Williams 

2018  Dr. Jilla Bird, Dr. Reginald Alford Walwyn

BELIZE

2011 - Dr Carla Barnett, Dr. Kenrick Leslie, His Excellency Sir Colville Young,Dr. the Honorable Lennox Pike.

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS   

2018  Mrs Dancia Penn Sallah, Dr Haskith Vanterpool, Mr. Gerard Farara

DOMINICA 

2019 - Professor Gerald Alistair Clarence Grell,  Rev. William Wilberforce Watty 

FLORIDA 

2018 - Professor Emerita Jean D’Costa, Dr. Sandra Schrouder, Dr. Dwight Benjamin  ,Mr.Justin Vincent

GRENADA    

2018  Professor Merle, Collins, Dr. Beverley Steele 

2017 Dame Cecile La Grenade 

JAMAICA 

2018 - Dr. Lloyd Stanford, Dr. Andre Haugton, Dr. Nicole Nation

2017- Mr Richard Byles 

2014 - Professor Archibald McDonald, Professor the Hon. Denise Eldemire-Shearer, Dr. Blossom Anglin-Brown

2011 - Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan

2010 - Mr. Earl Jarrett

2009 - The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica

2008 -   Hon. Dennis Lalor, Prof. Franklin Knight, Dr. Muriel Lowe, Dr. Knox Hagley, Dr. Henry Lowe  

2007 - Dr. Audia Barnett, Dr. Andre Gordon

2006 -  Prof. Alfred Sangster, Prof. Errol Miller, Prof. Renn Holness

2005 -  Dr. Deanna Ashley,  ,Stephney Ferguson, Bevon Morrison

2004 - Professor Orlando Patterson 

2003 - Dr. Donald Christian 

2002 -  Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie, Ambassador Angella King, Ambassador the Hon. Patricia Durrant, Professor Marlene Hamilton

2001 - Ambassador Courtney Walsh, Father Richard Ho-Lung

2000 -  Prof. the Hon. Lawson Douglas, Judge Patrick Robinson, Mrs. Beverly Anderson Manley 

1999 -  Dr. Owen Minott, Dr. Garth Taylor, Professor Edward Baugh

1998 - Professor Barrington Chevannes, Dr. Neville Ying, Ms. Maude Fuller, Howard Spencer, Professor Owen Morgan

1997- Professor the Hon. Hugh Wynter 

1996 - Professor Gerald Lalor, Noel Dexter 

1995 - Professor Graham Sargeant 

1994 - Phyllis McPerson- Russell

1993 -  Derek Walcott, Dr. Michael Alleyne, Dr. Henry Fraser, Mrs. Fay Saunders, Ms. Marjorie Whylie

1992 - The Hon. Aaron Matalon 

1991- Sir Philip Sherlock 

1990- Professor the Hon. Rex. Nettleford 

1989 - Sir Alister McIntyre

1986 - Mrs. Gloria Knight 

1985 -  Prof. Louis Strathmore Grantt

1984 - Father Louis Grenier 

1983 - Professor Carl Stone

1982 - Mr. Winston Smith  

1978 - Sir George Alleyne 

1974 - Lady Daphne Phillips 

1969 - Dr. E. A. Bowen

1967 - Sir Kenneth Standard 

1966 - Professor Kenneth Magnus   

NEW YORK 

2020 - Dr. Godfrey Gibbison  

2019 - H.E. Ambassador Pennelope Beckles

2018 - Marlon James

2013 - H.E. Amb. Missouri Sherman-Peter, Harold Roberston, Dr. Gerald Groves, Caple Spence, Yvonne Graham , Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones, Laurine Fenton

TORONTO  

2018 The Hon. Justice Irving Andre

UWIMAA (Medical Alumni )TORONTO  

2018 Dr. Karl Massiah

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

2014 - Sir Edwin Carrington

ST KITTS AND NEVIS

2019 - Dr. Keith Archibald 

2018  Dr. the Right Excellent Sir Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds

2017  H.E. Sir Samuel W. Tapley Seaton 

ST LUCIA  

2018  H.E. Dr. Didacus Jules, H.E. Dame Perlette Louisy, Dr. Veronica Simon, H.E. Ambassador Dr. June Soomer 

ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADAINES 

2018 Hon. Rene Baptiste CMG 

WASHINGTON DC 

2018  Reverend Canon Kortright Davis 

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