In the late 1970s, Courtney Blackman, an unusually outspoken central bank governor from Barbados, unleashed a strong public critique of UWI social scientists, asserting that the academics produced.
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Whatever happened Yesterday, The UWI will still be there Tomorrow!
May 1, 2021
Chronicles Of A Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet
WHENEVER I sang along when the song ‘Silence is Golden’ played on our radio at home while growing-up in Faux-a-Chaux, the ancient mariner and survivor of two world wars in my father would tell me, ‘Silence is golden in peace time, but not in war!’
I remembered that sort of eerie (and suspenseful) silence when I sat Thursday morning to pen this column for this holiday weekend.
It appears dated for the day after The UWI Council (would have) met in what had earlier been touted as a virtual Final Showdown, a veritable High Noon, Last Draw between The UWI’s two top gunmen (Chancellor and Vice Chancellor), the winner to wear the Sheriff’s Badge for UWIville.
Emmanuel Charles Cadet
March 8, 2021
Early Years
Charles Cadet was born in Castries, Saint Lucia on December 16, 1924. His father, Gerald Cadet, was an offspring of one of Saint Lucia’s early advocates of political advancement, who served on the Castries Town Board (now the Castries City Council) for several decades in the early part of the twentieth century. Emmanuel D. Cadet was also a member of the Castries Vestry of the Roman Catholic Church. The Cadet Pavilion at Victoria Park (now Mindoo Philip Park) was named after him.
Charles attended the foremost Roman Catholic School on the island, St. Aloysius Boys Primary on Brazil Street, Castries. He was under the tutelage of the renowned, strict disciplinarian Headmaster, Mr. Henry Belizaire, who was recognized as one of the few local British Caribbean educators to write a booklet on Geographical Terms. Charles showed promise academically at an early age, and so was admitted to the only secondary school on the island for boys,