ALUMNI ACHIEVERS
Country of Birth: Barbados
Date of Birth: October 17, 1949
Major/Year: BA (Economics and History) 1971-UWI Cave Hill Campus; MSc (Economics) 1974 - UWI Mona Campus
Achievements: Former Prime Minister of Barbados
Quotable Quotes: "For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
Bio-data: Owen Arthur grew up in the parish of St. Peter in Barbados. He attended All Saints Boys' Primary School, the Coleridge and Parry Secondary School and Harrison Collge. His diverse professional career includes: working as Research Assistant in the Department of Managemetn at UWI-Mona, Director of Economics at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute and Chief Project Analyst in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Barbados. In September 1994, he assumed office as Barbados' Prime Minister and has since led the position for another three consecutive terms. With this achievement, Owen Arthur has created history by ebing the first party leader to do such in Barbados. Since becoming Prime Minister, The Hon. Owen Arthur assumed the leading role in the Caribbean Community for the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).
Country of Birth: Trinidad and Tobago
Date of Birth: October 4, 1972
Major/Year: LLB 1996-UWI Cave Hill Campus
Achievements: Miss Universe 1998; UNAIDS and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador; Redo Cross Ambassador for Youth in the Caribbean
Quotable Quotes: "We cannot allow our young people to die through ignorance. Ignorance will not save lives...sex education and facing facts will".
Bio-data: Wendy Fitzwilliam is Trinidad and Tobago's second Miss Universe and the third black woman to ever hold the title. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she graduated from UWI, Cave Hill Campus with a degree in Law. At the age of twenty-five, she won the Miss Universe Pageant in Honolulu, Hawaii, competing with other contestants from countries such as USA, South Africa, Russia and Venezuela. During her reign she was awarded the title of UNAIDS and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for her extensive work in HIV/AIDS education and awareness. She has also been appointed Red Cross Ambassador for Youth in the Caribbean, the first time such a title was conferred.
Wendy presented the 2nd Lecture in the Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series during UWI Cave Hill Campus' Alumni Week which was celebrated in October 2007.
Country of Birth: Barbados
Date of Birth: July 9, 1974
Major/Year: BSc. (Economics, Accounting) 1997-UWI Cave Hill Campus
Achievements: West Indies Cricketer
Quotable Quotes: "It's not easy to juggle studying at university level and play highly competitive cricket. In fact, it's very difficult and calls for discipline and good time management".
Bio-data: Wendy Fitzwilliam is Trinidad and Tobago's second Miss Universe and the third black woman to ever hold the title. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she graduated from UWI, Cave Hill Campus with a degree in Law. At the age of twenty-five, she won the Miss Universe Pageant in Honolulu, Hawaii, competing with other contestants from countries such as USA, South Africa, Russia and Venezuela. During her reign she was awarded the title of UNAIDS and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for her extensive work in HIV/AIDS education and awareness. She has also been appointed Red Cross Ambassador for Youth in the Caribbean, the first time such a title was conferred.
Wendy presented the 2nd Lecture in the Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series during UWI Cave Hill Campus' Alumni Week which was celebrated in October 2007.
Country of Birth: Curacao
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: 1976-UWI Cave Hill Campus
Achievements: Deputy Director of Tourism in Dominica; Popoular singer of cadence-lypso: First Female artist from the Caribbean to record a live album
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Ophelia Marie is a popular singer of the Dominican indigenous music-cadence-lypso, from the 1980s. From a young age, she displayed her rich talents in a group called "Five O's" which mainly performed at church functions. Ophelia has performed extensively in France and the Caribbean, and also in England, uSA and Germany. She has recorded 13 albums to date, including a live one in Paris at the Theatre de la Renaissance, the first live album of a Caribbean female artist. Ophelia has received many outstanding awards including, a Golden Drum award in 1984 and a Lifetime Award in 2005. Her signature tune is "Ay Dominique".
Country of Birth: N/A
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: BA (Frecnch, Spanish, Linguistics, Sociology) 1979-UWI Cave Hill Campus; Dip Ed 1985; Certificate of Educational Management and Administration - 1998
Achievements: Popular singer and first person to introduce Tuk into Calypso rhythms of Barbaods; Coordinator of the Junior Calypso Monarch Competition; Coordinator of the Programme Cultural and Historical Exposure for Kids in School.
Quotable Quotes: "It takes alot of guts, individuality and perservance to be successful in this business".
Bio-data: Wayne Willock, also known as Poonka, is a talented Barbadian musician who has spent many years studying the performing arts. He started around the age of ten when he took on an acting role in "Bimshire 1966". Since then, Wayne has strived to promote and raise the standards of local music in Barbados. He studied African and Indian Tassa drumming in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago and, he has conducted many workshops on drumming and Tuk music. Wayne was the leader of the Rotherley Construction Ruk-a-Tuk music band and of Omele Inc. Percussion Ensemble which represented Barbados in a drum festival in Venezuela in 1994. He has produced two albums of Tuk music.
Country of Birth: Barbados
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: BSc. (Honours Degree, Chemistry and Physics; Biochemistry Minor 1978-UWI Cave Hill Campus; PhD (Organic Chemistry - 1983
Achievements: Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Applications in Glyco-Chemistry and the Centre of Renewable Organic Products, Michigan State University
Quotable Quotes: "This is where chemistry has to go to answer the questions we need to answer......Diseases which have no answer require a different approach".
Bio-data: Rawle Hollingsworth is an acclaimed professor at the Michigan State University (MSU). His creativity comes from the diverse Biochemistry lab at MSU, where he is actively involved in the new frontier of breaking down complex carbohydrates to create the building block for new drugs to battle diseases such as cancer, diabetes, high cholesterol and others. Dr. Hollingsworth has founded a company called Synthon Chiragenics which utilises his research to make these drug remedies. He is also founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer of AFID Therapeutics Inc and has produced in excess of one hundred publications and sixty patents. Professor Hollingsworth is working with the Barbados government with research concerning Sugar Cane variants which may be used to develop new products and processes for the pharmaceutical, fine chemistry and material science industries. The ultimate goal is to identify new, high-value avenues for the industry.
Country of Birth: Guyana
Date of Birth: September 9, 1944
Major/Year: BA (French and Spanish with Latin) 1996-UWI Cave Hill Campus; MA (Linguistics) 1971-UWI Mona Campus; PhD (Linguistics) - 1973 Stanford University
Achievements: Assistant Dean in the Division of Communications and Education and Director of the Institute for Language Programmes at Harvard University.
Quotable Quotes: "None of us has alot of money, but if we all put our two cents in the pot, and start a tradition of support for tertiary edcuation in our households, we will multiply, even exponentially, the value of our gifts.
Bio-data: After graduating from UWI Cave Hill, Lilth Haynes completed her Master's degree in Linguistics at UWI-Mona in Jamaica with a 545-page thesis entitled "Local Names of Plants in Guyana, South America: A Linguistic and Ethnobotanical Study", and then her PhD in Linguistics at the Stanford University. Her teaching career began at her high school and continued at the St. Ursula's School in Barbados while she was still an undergraduate. Over the years, Dr. Haynes has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Carleton College and the University of Delaware. From as far back as 1955 to date she has received many awards, accolades, honours and scholarships and has been involved in many publications and presentations alike. Lilith Haynes is currently the Assistant Dean in the Division of Continuing Education and the Director of the Institute for English Language Programs at Harvard University, where she has been entrusted since 1993, administering and often lecturing on a wide variety of certificate, diploma, extension and summer school programmes.
Country of Birth: Barbados
Date of Birth: May 9, 1944
Major/Year: BA (English, Economics, History) 1969-UWI Cave Hill Campus; MA (Labour Education) Rutgers University
Achievements: President and Vice President of International Conferate of Free Trade Unions; Chairman of workers' Group at ILO; General Secretary of the Barbados Workers' Union; knighted for outstanding service to Barbados both nationally and internationally.
Quotable Quotes: "Unless the worst pockets of poverty and deprivation are removed, there will never be any real peace of global prosperity. The Workers Group, within the ILO, believes we have gone well beyond the time for reciting what has been and we need action and we need it now. Globalization has the high poptential to bring real relief to the many as opposed to the few. Let us give due recognition to countries which have handicaps of one kind or another and prepare to give affirmative action in bringing them to a level where they can be truly competitive.
Bio-data: Roy Trotman was born in the Parish of St. Joseph in Barbados. He has taught at many schools, held the post of principal at a private secondary school and lectured at UWI for three years. Sir Roy first entered trade unionism at the Modern High School where conditions were far below satisfactory. His adept leadership abilities, allowed him to quickly rise through the ranks and he played an important role in establishing trade unionism in Barbados. In 1992, Sir Roy was voted President of the Internatinal Confederation of Free Trade Unions and assumed his office for two consecutive four-year terms, representing 126 million workers. He is currently the Vice President. In the 2002 Independence Honours, Sir Roy wasknighted "Knight of St. ANdrew" for his outstanding service to Barbados both nationally and internationaly.
Country of Birth: England
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: UWI Cave Hill Campus; MBBS (1974-UWI Mona Campus)
Achievements: Pediatrician; Associate Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics in the School of Clinical Medicine and Research.
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Margaret Anne St. john completed residency in Pediatrics and Pediatric Ambulatory Fellowship at Kings' County/Downstate Medical Centre in Brooklyn. She also completed a Senior Residency and Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious diseases at the hospital of Sick Children in Toronto Canada. Dr. St. John is an international reviewer who has produced numerous abstracts and research articles in various peer review journals and written chapters in books, particularly for her research in pediatrics HIV/AIDS. She is regionally and internationally known for this research.
Dr. St. John is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Fellow of the Amercian Academy of Pediatrics. She is an international reviewer who has produced over 100 abstracts and research articles in various peer review journals and written chapters in books, on pediatric topics, infectious diseases. Her major area of research is in pediatrics HIV/AIDS. she is regionally and internationally know for this research.
She shared a Pelican Alumni peer award of the Cave Hill Campus-presented in 2004, for best medical graduate of the 1970's.
Country of Birth: N/A
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: BSc. (Physiology) 1971-University of Bristol intercalated with UWI Cave Hill; MBBS (1974-UWI Mona Campus); College of Medicine and Denistry of New Jersey (1978); University of Toronto (1980)
Achievements: Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital; Head of Gastroenterology Unit at QEH; Associate Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the School of Clinical Medicine and Research.
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Charles Edwards is the Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and also the Head of of the Gastroenterology Unit and Head of the Department of Medicine both at QEH. He has been President of the Association of West Indian Gastroenterologists and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bayview Hospital. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada. Dr Edwards is internationally praised as an expert on leptospirosis, having published many original articles and authored and coaurthored chapters on leptospirosis in infectious disease text books.
Country of Birth: N/A
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: LLB(Honours) 1974-UWI Cave Hill Campus; Legal Education Certificate of the Council of Legal Education of the West Indies (1976)
Achievements: Chief Justice of the Bahamas; made Knight Bachelor by Her Majest, Queen Elizabeth II
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Burton Hall commenced his professional career as a Probation Officer prior to being Assistant Clerk to the House of Assembly in the Bahamas. His introduction to practice as counsel and attorney of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas commenced his illustrious career. This career included appointments as Counsel in the Office of the Attorney General (1976-1983); Solicitor General (1983-1990); Justice of the Supreme Court (1990-1997); and Justice of Appeal (1997-2001). Sir Burton was knighted by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II give the title of "Knight Bachelor" in 2002. He was made Knight of the Equestrian Order of Sylvester in 2003 by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II.
Country of Birth: N/A
Date of Birth: May 22, 1949
Major/Year: BA(Honours) - UWI Cave Hill
Achievements: Second Premier of Nevis; West Indian Cricketer
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Mr. Amory was born in Gingerland in St. Kitts and Nevis. He was a West Indies cricketer who played for the Combined Island and Leeward Islands. Mr. Amory also founded the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM), the political party which assumed government office for fourteen years since 1992. Prior to being a politician, Mr. Amory held posts such as School Headmaster, Bank Manager and Permanent Secretary for Finance in the Nevis island Administration. The Hon. Amory represents the parish of St. Georges in Nevis and has done so in the Nevis Island Assembly since 1987 and in the Federal Parliament since 1989.
Country of Birth: Dominica
Date of Birth: N/A
Major/Year: BA(General Honours) 1971-UWI Cave HIll Campus
Achievements: Second Premier of Nevis; West Indian Cricketer
Quotable Quotes: N/A
Bio-data: Alwin Bully is Dominica's Cultural Advisor. He graduated from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in 1971 and while there served as the President of the Guild of Undergraduates (1969-1970). He was also the founding member of the Barbados National Theatre Workshop, also of the UWI Cave Hill Carnival and the Annual Arts Festival, and a founding member of the Cavite Chorale at UWI. In addition, he was a dancer/choreographer of the Barbados National Dance Theatre Company. Mr Bully has also written many plays and displays outstanding acting skills. Mr Bully has left a legacy of rich literary theatre tradition and an understanding of what can be achieved when one follow's dreams. Along with his many other duties, Mr Bully sits as a board member of the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI), which is located at the UWI, Cave Hill Campus.
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