( left - right ) NEIL and HENDRICKSON
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) will award 15 honorary degrees at graduation ceremonies to be held at its three campuses at Cave Hill, Barbados; Mona, Jamaica; and St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, later this year.
At the Mona campus graduation ceremonies, on November 5 and 6, five persons will receive honorary degrees. They are Ambassador Patricia Durrant, a veteran career diplomat and currently United Nations Ombudsman; lawyer/trade unionist Richard Hart; businessman Karl Hendrickson; Ambassador Stafford O. Neil; and Justice Patrick Robinson, a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since November 1998 and who is currently president of the panel.
Those to receive honorary doctorates at the Cave Hill campus on October 22 are Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; Guadeloupean author Dr. Maryse Boucolon Condé; Vincentian surgeon Dr. Athur Cecil Cyrus; former West Indian cricketer Wes Hall; Barbadian publisher Harold Hoyte; and lawyer/educator Professor Keith Patchett.
The St. Augustine campus graduation ceremonies, scheduled for October 28 and 29, will see the conferral of three Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees and one Doctor of Science degree on Kittitian Queen's Counsel, Joseph Samuel Archibald; Professor Raymond Gosling, a biophysicist of British nationality; Tajmool Hosein, a native of Trinidad, who has had a distinguished career in the field of law, and Guyanese historian Sister Mary Noel Menezes.
