Ten participants from Jamaica and Antigua, will graduate during the Closing Exercise for the 20th Regional Course in “Community Care of the Elderly in the Caribbean”, on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 10:30 a. m. in the MPH classroom UWI, Mona.
The course is organized by the Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, UWI, Mona and Action Ageing
UWI, Mona lecturer, Dr. Paulette Ramsay will read excerpts from her book “October Afternoon” during the Book Signing and Reading on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 2 pm at the UWI Bookshop. The book is a collection of poems which deal with issue of subjectivity, identity, feminism and racial and cultural pride. It is also about the word and the imp
The Jamaican Mathematical Olympiad Organising Committee has announced the local team to the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Regional Mathematical Olympiad, which will take place from June 15 to 23 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
They are Zale Young (captain), Campion College; Romain Jones, Campion College; Anphernee Wilson, Herbert Morrison
Jamaica’s Earthquake Threat is the subject of discussion at the public lecture being organized by the Disaster Risk Reduction Centre at UWI. The Lecture is scheduled for Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm at the Blue Room at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference, Centre, UWI, Mona. Dr. Lyndon Brown, Research Fellow and Head, Earthquake Unit, UWI w
“Issues and Challenges to Implementing Community Policing as Organizational Change” is the title of the seminar being organized by the Department of Government, UWI, Mona. The seminar is slated for Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 10 am in the Faculty of Social Sciences Conference Room. The presentation will be made by Dormah Harrison, Master of Phi
The University of the West Indies, Mona through its Sports Office and Kier present a Beach Invitational Football Tournament and Fun Day on Sunday, June 10 at 9 am at the newly opened UWI Sands at the Mona Bowl. The Tournament will see over eleven teams competing for the $60,000 top prize. Competing teams include: premier league, business house
The University Singers, in its 2012 Concert Season, joins with Jamaica in the celebration of the fiftieth year as an independent nation. Dubbed: JAMAICA 50: THE GOLDEN JUBILEE, the group has taken this concept and translated it into a Jamaican masterpiece. This musical feast will take its audiences through music dating back to the pre and post
Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Open Campus delivers an address at the ceremony to mark the Dedication of Lands for the Construction of the MSTTE Comp
The need to expand training opportunities and community collaboration in Jamaica to achieve greater results to compete in a global labour force, was the recurring theme at the recently-held Learnin