O'Neil Simpson looked the part of a world champion and well he might. Eyes alight and with a confident smile creeping seemingly unbidden to suffuse his countenance, the Cave Hill star debater sat down after his historic win of the coveted first prize in the World Public Speaking Competition at the 2006 World's Universities and Colleges Debating Championships held between December 27, 2005 and January 4, 2006 in Ireland, to recount his elation at the experience.
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(CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) CARICOM Secretary-General His Excellency Edwin Carrington has emphasised the need for a new growth paradigm within the Caribbean, as well as a new vision for achieving sustainable high rates of growth and equitable development within the Region.
The Caribbean Community mourns the passing of one of its pioneer sons, Sir Kenneth Standard, Professor Emeritus (Community Health) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) at the age of 82.
Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Rex Nettleford, remembering Sir Kenneth, recalled that in 1948 this young Barbadian, already a headmaster in his native island journeyed to Mona, Jamaica to become one of the now famous "first 33" students to walk through the doors of the new the University College of the West Indies (UCWI) Faculty of Medicine.
An appreciation of the history of this region is critical to a fuller understanding of contemporary realities and future challenges. For the Caribbean shares in the great drama of the Americas of which it is an integral part, whereby new societies are shaped, new and delicately tuned sensibilities are honed, and appropriate designs for social living are crafted through the cross-fertilisation of disparate elements. The process has resulted in a distinguishable and distinctive entity called “Caribbean”. The process is intensely cultural.
The Caribbean Development (CDB) applauds the Caribbean Community Secretariat and Civil Society for convening this Conference. I know that it required much effort and determination to bring it off. We are very pleased to have an opportunity to participate in what we confidently expect to be a set of most fruitful discussions about social partnership for Caribbean development.
The CARICOM Secretariat and the University of the West Indies (UWI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering greater co-operation between the two Institutions.
CARICOM Secretary-General Mr Edwin Carrington signed on behalf of the Secretariat and Principal of UWI's Mona Campus, Professor Kenneth Hall signed on behalf of the University at a ceremony on Tuesday 7 December 1999, at the Bank of Guyana Headquarters of the Secretariat.
A workshop on Economic Integration and Free Trade_ Challenges and Responses Chilean and CARICOM Perspective, a joint initiative of the University of the West Indies Latin American-Caribbean Centre (LACC) in Jamaica and the Government of Chile through its Agency for International Cooperation (AGCI), will be held at the Institute of International Relations on the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies, 4-6 February 1998.