News Releases

The first shipment of relief supplies donated to the Cave Hill Campus is on its way to residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines who were displaced by the eruption of the La Soufrière volcano earlier this month.
 

Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Thursday, 19 August 2021. The UWI Cave Hill Campus has officially extended its partnership with CIBC FirstCaribbean with the signing of a memorandum of understanding for three years.

The agreement, which was signed on Tuesday, is for the period 2021/22 to 2023/24, and will cover four areas: support and development of UWI programmes and students around the region.

Stories of creativity, innovation, resilience, and dedication, all related to teaching and the operations of the Campus were highlighted during the Annual Teaching and Learning Week of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching in Learning (CETL).
 

A new unit has been established at the Cave Hill Campus to bolster scholarship aimed at combatting health challenges in the region, including non-communicable diseases (NDCs).
 

The UWI Cave Hill Campus has added over 50 new degree programmes to its suite of offerings for the new academic year.
 

Over 400 regional students at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus have been hailed as heroes for their courageous fieldwork at the height of a COVID-19 resurgence in Barbados earlier this year.
 

Addressing the Eminent Speaker Series of the UWI Cave Hill, Faculty of Law recently, Coke-Hamilton who is the Executive Director of the Switzerland-based development agency, the International Trade Centre (ITC), said small states should embrace a feminist trade policy in the same way they should embrace a strong foreign policy or a humane social policy.
 

Speaking at a Vice Chancellor’s Forum and Distinguished Arthur Lewis Event on the topic ‘Sustainable Island Futures’ on Monday, the Prime Minister highlighted the need for education reform to allow all students an opportunity to reach their full potential. However, she said such reform is being hampered by scarce resources. 
 

Dean of The University of the West Indies Faculty of Sport, Dr Akshai Mansingh is intent on transforming sporting facilities at the four landed campuses of the regional university towards net zero carbon emissions. In so doing, the facilities would be powered entirely by renewable energy sources.

Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Honourable Keith Mitchell has called for immediate, decisive action on climate change and warned that lives and livelihoods continue to be at stake. Prime Minister Mitchell said the unifying nature of sports provides a platform to advocate for change, as has been done historically.