January 2020

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.

On November 30, 2019, out of eleven nominees, Asha-Gaye Cowell, UWI STAT Alumni Ambassador and Past President, was one of three awardees of the Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence for the category of Leadership. Nominations were open to all Jamaican nationals between 15-29 years old, who are living in Jamaica and the Diaspora, and who have attained excellence and world-class achievement. Asha-Gaye who was also the recipient of the 2019 Governor-General Achievement Award for Excellence for the Parish of St.