In a recent update of UWI Open Campus activities and reports of achievements, a release among other events informs: At the Recognition Ceremony held on Wednesday November 30, 2016 certificates were distributed by Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Premier, Mrs. Chelsea Gerald, to several persons who completed programmes during the academic year. Three students earned bachelor’s degrees bringing the number of students completing their undergraduate studies without leaving the island to 56. They are as follows:
Three Graduates Keane Halley, Denecia Cambell and Tameka Duke
BSc Accounting – Mrs. Tameka Duke; BSc Banking and Finance (Special) – Mrs. Denecia Campbell; and BSc Management Studies – Ms. Keane Halley
The following also completed programmes at the local Open Campus site:
ASc in Professional Office Management – Mrs. Veronica Cabey and Mrs. Nylvae Woodley. Certificate in Criminology – Miss Shamoyah Grant;
Miss Denecia West completed the BSc. Public Sector Management (Special International Relations) at the UWI St. Augustine Campus chose to participate in the local recognition ceremony, which is open to all UWI graduates.
Certificates were also distributed to persons who completed the Care of the Elderly Programme and the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank’s (ECCB) Small Business Management Programme (Part I). There were 11 and 22 participants in each of these programmes respectively.
The feature address was delivered by Mrs. Veronica Dorsette-Hector, BA, LLB, who’s topic was Transformational Change Through Excellence. She quoted Martin Luther King Jr. who once said that the “function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character, that is the twin goal.” Mrs. Dorsette-Hector invited the gathering to consider adopting such core values as Integrity, Intellectual Freedom, Excellence, Civic Responsibility, Accessibility, Diversity and Equity. She reminded the graduates to share their knowledge and skills with others and ended by saying, “your integrity is always under the microscope, you cannot afford to have it contaminated. Make a difference, be the change that you want to see.”
Congratulations are extended to the Open Campus graduates as well as other graduates who completed their studies and returned to Montserrat. These include:
- Renique Cassell who completed the Registered Nurse/General Nursing Programme at the Barbados Community College
- Deidre Allen who completed the BSc Environmental Health Management at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad & Tobago (COSTAATT)
- Jasmine Jno-Baptiste who completed the BSc Social Statistics at The UWI, Mona Campus
- And Tivonne Howe who completed the BSc in Geology at Kingston University, UK.
