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The following is a statement from Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles on the passing of renowned Caribbean-born scientist, Professor Emeritus Sir Geoff Palmer:
 

The following is a statement from Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, on the passing of Professor Emerita Hazel Simmons-McDonald:
 

The UWI Cave Hill Campus mourns the passing of distinguished academic, Professor Emerita Hazel Simmons- McDonald.
 

A long-standing historical belief that free villages did not emerge in Barbados following emancipation has been firmly challenged by one of the region’s distinguished historians.  Sir Woodville Marshall’s latest work, Near a Plantation: Free Villages of Barbados 1840–1945, offers comprehensive and meticulously researched account of nearly 500 free villages established on the island between 1840 and 1945. The book was launched in March at The UWI Cave Hill Campus.  The publication directly counters a widely cited assertion by historian William Green that “free villages did not arise” in Barbados—a view that has been generally accepted by scholars for decades. Sir Woodville argues that this conclusion was based on an absence of local research and that serious scholarly attention had not previously been given to the post-slavery settlement patterns in Barbados.

A  top Cave Hill science student will join two of her UWI counterparts in a cutting-edge surgical robotics research program this summer at the University of Leeds.