Jun 1, 2021
Jamie-Lee Rocke
The Belize Chapter of the University of the West Indies Alumni Association has a new President. Jamie-Lee Rocke succeeds Shanice Flowers, who held office from 2019 to 2021. According to a press release from the association, Rocke is a two-time graduate of the University of the West Indies, completing her bachelor’s at the Cave Hill Campus and her master’s with the Open Campus. She is currently a Programme Manager with the Continuing and Professional Education Centre at UWI’s Open Campus. The Belize Chapter represents thousands of Belizean graduates, including anyone who has completed degree programmes or Continuing and Professional Education Certificates offered by any campus of The University of the West Indies.
The UWI, Press Release
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Tuesday, May 25, 2021 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.
In February, the students signed up for the Community Evaluation and Testing Project, popularly known as Operation Seek and Save; a data gathering exercise organised by the Government of Barbados and Cave Hill Campus to help stem a deadly second wave of the pandemic, and also contain the growing spread of dengue fever.
Call to include Cuba, others in CARICOM
Article by May 27, 2021
A University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus academic and researcher is urging the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) incoming Secretary General to re-establish the importance of CARICOM to the region’s people.
Dr Kai-Ann Skeete, a Trade Research Fellow at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade, Law, Policy & Services (SRC) at the Cave Hill Campus, contended that CARICOM’s “significance has been waning” for some time.
In a blog posting, Dr Skeete offered congratulations to Belizean, Dr Carla Barnett, who replaces Ambassador Dr Irwin La Rocque in August as the top executive
Caribbean Health Professionals, Regional Organisations Support Front of Package Warning Labels
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Some 300 Caribbean health professionals and over 40 regional organisations have publicly voiced support for octagonal front of package warning labels to help consumers across the region protect their health.
The health professionals and organisations are signatories to a month-long campaign, spearheaded by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), to demonstrate national and regional support for octagonal front of package warning labels.
This campaign comes as key stakeholders in CARICOM countries vote on whether Caribbean
consumers will benefit from the introduction of octagonal shaped nutrition warning labels on the
Region getting closer to warning labels
Article by May 22, 2021
Some 300 Caribbean health professionals and over S40 regional organisations have publicly voiced support for octagonal front of package warning labels to help consumers across the region protect their health.
The health professionals and organisations are signatories to a month-long campaign, spearheaded by the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), to demonstrate national and regional support for octagonal front of package warning labels.
This campaign comes as key stakeholders in CARICOM countries vote on whether Caribbean consumers will benefit from the introduction of octagonal shaped nutrition warning labels on the front of packaged foods.