Nearly Three Thousand Graduate from UWI, Mona

  Just under three thousand persons completed the requirements for completion of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the Faculties of Humanities & Education, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences and Social Sciences, with many of these receiving their certificates at the annual graduation ceremonies held with great pomp and ceremony on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2009.

Thousands of well-wishers, family members, colleagues and friends - came out in support of the beaming members of the graduating class who were presented at three separate ceremonies: graduates of the Faculties of Humanities & Education and Law on Friday, November 6, those from the Faculties of Medical Sciences and Pure & Applied Sciences received their certificates on the morning of Saturday, November 7 while graduates of the Faculty of Social Sciences were presented in the afternoon.

Valedictorians were Kimberley Campbell, First Class honours graduate from the Faculty of Humanities & Education, Claudine DeSouza, honours graduate from the Faculty of Medical Sciences and Andre Clarke, first class honours graduate from the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Honorary degrees were also presented at the three ceremonies to persons who have made a significant contribution to national or regional development.

At Friday's ceremony, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Chairman and Managing Director of the Gleaner Company, the Hon. Oliver F. Clarke, and scholar and historian Professor Colin A Palmer, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.

The degree DLitt honoris causa was conferred on Mr. John Maxwell, veteran journalist and environmental activist, and on publisher and cultural historian, Dr. Anne Walmsley.

At the ceremony on Saturday afternoon, consultant and entrepreneur the Hon. John Issa received the Doctor of Laws degree.