Historian and retired lecturer Prof Brinsley Samaroo By Narissa Fraser July 10, 2023 – newsday.co.tt A brilliant writer, a conscious academic and a remarkable individual. This is how UWI will remember historian and retired lecturer Prof Brinsley Samaroo.
Two students detained over campus chaos By Shane Superville October 19, 2018 – newsday.co.tt TWO students of the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine campus are now in police custody after they were arrested yesterday for their roles in a heated students’ protest at the campus’ south gate over an increase in assaults … Continue reading UWI uproar
Trinidad & Tobago Guardian December 26, 2017 – guardian.co.tt KINGSTON—The University of the West Indies (UWI) is backing Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments in protesting the European Union’s (EU) recent blacklisting of regional countries it considers tax haven. In a statement issued, Vice-Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles said the UWI “stands with the governments of the Caribbean … Continue reading UWI backs protests against EU blacklist
By MARINA SALANDY-BROWN October 08, 2015 – newsday.co.tt THE RECENT debate of the rights and wrongs of a new UWI law campus being built in Debe revealed some of the complexities of the business of education and unleashed an unusually high level of public discourse. I use the word “business” advisedly. I could also add … Continue reading UWI in Debe – 2 questions
By Rhonda Krystal Rambally October 04, 2015 – guardian.co.tt Anthropologist Dr Dylan Kerrigan says racist posts on social networking site Facebook are a cultural manifestation of the political climate and is suggestive of how T&T’s society might become. He described this cultural manifestation as “dangerous” and attributed this to failing social and educational institutions, the … Continue reading Small group ‘fanning the flames’ of race in T&T—UWI lecturer
By Yvonne Baboolal November 22, 2009 – guardian.co.tt Remove Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 as symbolic Head of the Commonwealth at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port-of-Spain. This is the call coming from some students attached to the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Students from U We … Continue reading UWI students: Remove Queen as Commonwealth head
By Leslie March 06, 2008 The Prince of Wales, Charles Philip Arthur George and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, paid a visit to the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, on Wednesday 5th March, 2008, as part of their tour of Trinidad and Tobago to promote environmentalism and to reinforce British … Continue reading Royal Visit to UWI Highlights Lingering Colonialism
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog Good day, I am a first year undergratuate student living on Milner Hall at the University of the West Indies campus St. Augustine. For the past five weeks we have not had water. The probelm all began when the two 400 gallons of water tanks in the basement overflowed, … Continue reading UWI’s Milner Hall: A Living Hell
By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 25, 2023 And so the monstrous, mindless, criminal madness continued on Wednesday with the “execution-style killings of three children and a 19-year-old in the crime hotspot of Heights of Guanapo”. This massacre also left five people wounded, two of whom are children. Yet the Government keeps calling for talks … Continue reading The Blood of Our Children
By Corey Gilkes August 02, 2023 Those of you who took god out your thoughts and were following my rants over the years know I have been saying the word “emancipation” actually means transfer ownership. And that puts into clearer perspective what dem snakes and soucouyants I was taught to celebrate as humanitarians and liberators … Continue reading What Emancipation still has not brought us