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Region getting closer to warning labels Article by May 22, 2021 Some 300 Caribbean health professionals and over S40 regional organisations have publicly voiced support for octagonal front of package warning labels to help consumers across the region protect their health. The health professionals and organisations are signatories to a month-long campaign, spearheaded by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), to demonstrate national and regional support for octagonal front of...

by Bajan Reporter / May 8th, 2021 Sir Frank Worrell has fulfilled the necessary requirements for hero status, and throughout his life represented Barbados “ when this fair land was young and sowed the seed from which our pride is sprung. A pride that makes no wanton boast of what it has withstood, that binds our hearts from coast to coast, the pride of nationhood.” He also made it known that “these fields and hills beyond recall are now our very own” when he became the first black capt...

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(The UWI), Press Release The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. W.I. Saturday, May 1, 2021 — The University of the West Indies (The UWI) is pleased to advise of appointments and reappointments for members of its senior Executive Management approved at its annual business meeting of University Council.    Regarded as the regional university’s highest governing body, the University Council, chaired by Chancellor Robert Bermudez, met virtually on Friday, April 30, 2021. The Council is auth...

Social Share KINGSTON, Jamaica – Professor Clive Landis is the new principal of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Cave Hill Campus, the first non-Caribbean person to hold that post. This was among the official announcements coming from The UWI on Friday, including the reappointment of Professor Sir Hilary Beckles as the Vice-Chancellor for another six-year period. Landis, who was serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Studies, migrated from Imperial College London in 2...

UWI-SRC receives grant Data collected by monitoring equipment of various sorts and purposes is relayed to and analysed by scientists like Dr. Thomas Christopher (pictured) based at the Belmont Observatory. By: Gloriah• The UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC, based at the St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, has received a grant valued at US$17,150, to support the monitoring of the La Soufrière volcano.  This has come by way of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRI...

UWI ‘ready to deploy’ for St Vincent’s aid Article by April 15, 2021 Declaring it stands in full solidarity with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the University of the West Indies said Wednesday it is ready to mobilize the full strength of its engineering, research, and humanitarian connections in response to La Soufriere volcanic eruptions. Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Global Affairs and Principal of the UWI Open Campus, Dr Luz Longsworth, told an online forum ...

The Caribbean Public Health Agency is aware that some countries in the European Union have suspended their AstraZeneca vaccination campaign..

by Bajan Reporter / March 13th, 2021 With the recent location of the Lord Nelson statue to the museum, there is now a need for us to look to the future. Barbados has an illustrious history that boasts of our 96% education achievement along with our prowess in sports, especially cricket. I would like to recommend a replacement who fits the bill BUT to place his statue in “ Heroes’ Square“, would first mean that he must be formally recognised as a HERO. In my eyes, that person should be S...

The Caribbean Public Health Agency is aware that some countries in the European Union have suspended their AstraZeneca vaccination campaign, as a result of reports of rar