Morris gets first UWI Credit
Union Scholarship
May 11, 1999

Dominican Marilyn Morris is the winner of the inaugural scholarship donated by the University of the West Indies Cooperative Credit Union at Cave Hill.  The award for the 1998/1999 academic year was conceptualised in recognition of the golden jubilee the university's celebrations which ended last semester.  Morris is a final year student in the Faculty of Social Sciences majoring in management studies.  The scholarship is valued at $2 500 and is tenable for up to three years.  It will meet students' maintenance costs, books, fees and incidental expenses.

Persaud receives Mutual Life Scholarship
March 30, 1999

Nadini Persaud, a final year  student in the Faculty of Social Sciences, is the recipient of the 1998/1999 Barbados Mutual Life Assurance Society Scholarship.  She is an Accounting major, from Villa, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  Educated at the St. Joseph Convent in St. Vincent, Persaud gained passes in four CXC and four Ordinary Level subjects.  She is also the holder of a certificate in Accounting from United Kingdom-based Association of Accounting Technicians.

On receiving the prize, Persaud was highly appreciative, and as a final year student she also sees the scholarship as a timely incentive toward her goal of attaining a good honours degree.  The scholarship is worth $5000 per year and opened to nationals of Barbados, the OECS and Trinidad and Tobago who are majoring in fields of Accounting, Computer Sciene and Management at the Cave Hill Campus.

Management Students win Shell Scholarships
March 19, 1999

Shell Antilles and Guianas Limited has awarded scholarships to two third-year management students of the Faculty of Social Sciences.   Lilian Polydore of Dominica and Paul Morris of St. Vincent were awarded the scholarships, worth $5 000 each.  According to Andrew Niles, Regional Manager of Shell, the company was proud to be associated with the University of the West Indies and was even more honoured that the company was allowed to contribute to the development of young minds.  In thanking Shell for its contribution, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Judy Whitehead, said that she hoped other private sector companies would take the initiative and provide assistance to the school.

Two Students awarded Clico Scholarship
March 17, 1999

Second year students, Nichole Mayers and Natalie Toussaint, are the winners of the first Clico Holdings Scholarship.  Mayers, 21, and Toussaint, a resident of St. Lucia, are both pursuing studies in Economics and Accounting.   They were presented with their scholarship awards of $5,000 and $9,000, respectively during a brief ceremony in the Main Conference Room of the Campus.   Michael St. Clair, Clico's Vice-President of sales and marketing appealed to private sector companies to work with governments and regional institutions to develop Barbados' human resources.

Scholarship Winner says it's a Blessing
March 15, 1999

A Twenty-three year old Coleridge and Parry Old Scholar is singing praises to God, thanks to the Atlanta Association of Barbados.     Winston Sobers, a second-year student in the Faculty of Social Sciences pursuing the BSc degree in Economics and Accounts, was presented with a scholarship from the Georgia-base association by principal of the Coleridge and Parry school, Alwin Adams.  

The Scholarship, an annual gesture by the association, is usually presented to Barbadian students studying in Atlanta.  This year, however, president of the association Tony Alleyne, a Coleridge and Parry old scholar, proposed making the gesture to a Barbadian student from his alma mater.   The principal explained that the standards for the scholarship were very high and the criteria included that the student must be a past student of the Coleridge and Parry School pursuing studies at the University of the West Indies. "I am very thankful and saw it as a blessing from the Lord.  I also felt very proud to know that the school was contributing to the development of past students." Sobers said.   He explained that the scholarship, which is in two parts, would be used to complete his education at UWI, where he is an active member of the University Christian Fellowship, Drama Club and the Choir.

First Class Grads and
Prize Winners Honoured
January 29, 1999

1997/1998 First Class Honours graduates and Prize Winners of the Faculty were recently honoured at the Faculty's second annual Cocktail Reception.  Dr. Michael Howard, Head of the Department of Economics, presented fifteen First Class Honours graduates and 16 Prize winners with tokens of congratulations from the Faculty.  Several congratulatory remarks from Scholarship donors, including Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Winston Cox, were offered to the students.

Visiting Professor of Economics
January 18, 1999

Visiting this Semester is Dr. Winston Griffith, a Professor in Economics from the Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, USA.   Dr. Griffith will be lecturing in the course EC30P in the Department of Economics during Semester II. His Fields of research and training interests are Development Economics in the Caribbean, and the Economics of Technology.  Dr. Griffith is also a Program Director of the Bucknell in Barbados Program.

Faculty of Social Sciences tops in Graduates at 1998 Graduation Ceremony
October 24, 1998

At this year's Graduation Ceremony of the Cave Hill Campus held at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex, 747 students were eligible for the award of degrees, certificates and diplomas.  Of these, 299 were students of the Faculty of Social Sciences, representing 40% of the graduating class of 1998.  Of this figure, 220 graduated with first degrees, and 79 obtained advanced diplomas or higher degrees. The Faculty was also proud of its Fifteen First Class Honours graduates, who received the Bachelor of Science Degree as follows - five in BSc Accounting, nine in BSc Economics and Accounting, and one in BSc Management.

Crime and Criminal Justice Research Centre hosts International Conference
October 14-16, 1998

The Barbados Hilton was the site of the first International Conference on Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean, hosted by the Faculty's Crime and Criminal Justice Research Centre.  The Conference, presented in collaboration with the University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology, formed part of the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the University of the West Indies.  The Conference brought together scholars in the field of Crime and Criminology from the Caribbean, Canada, USA and the UK and consisted of 15 panels and 45 paper presentations.

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